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Friday, March 14, 2025

Infamy is more than a dismal Rotten Tomatoes score. The most reviled productions achieve longstanding notoriety through a combination of widespread exposure and unanimous disdain. For example, Cats was a) very bad and b) widely consumed by the masses -- relative to the average stinker -- and is therefore notable for being a "widely consumed thing that is very bad."

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... To assess a movie's hate-ability, we'll analyze audience disapproval and magnitude of disdain:

- - - Audience Disapproval: We'll calculate each film's percentage of one-star reviews and then rank this figure against other movies from the same year.

- - - Magnitude of Disdain: We'll measure each movie's total one-star review count, then rank this figure against other releases from the same year.

We'll then average these two rankings to generate our final list.

According to review data from the film site MovieLens, our pantheon of detestable movies is topped by ...



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