--- title: Popular lousy movies date: "2006-11-23T12:00:00Z" categories: - top-10-lists wp_id: 177 description: 'I plotted IMDb ratings against vote counts to find outliers. I discovered that popular movies with low ratings, like Titanic and Star Wars: Episode I, are almost always big-budget blockbusters, while high-rated unpopular entries are usually TV shows.' keywords: [imdb, movie ratings, data visualization, blockbusters, film statistics, titanic] --- If you plot all movies by their number-of-votes on IMDb and their rating on IMDb, you get the chart below. Movies with more votes usually have a higher rating. [![Popular lousy movies on IMDb](/blog/assets/flickr-popular-lousy-movies-on-imdb_304378629_o-png.webp)](/blog/assets/flickr-popular-lousy-movies-on-imdb_304378629_o-png.webp) I was interested two things: 1. Which are the unpopular, but good (highly-rated), movies? 2. Which are the popular, but lousy, movies? The answer to the first question is: there are no unpopular good movies. The cluster of dots on the top-left (in red) are not movies -- they're TV shows (Band of Brothers, Pride and Prejudice, Arrested Development). The answer to the second is: there are 9 really popular lousy movies. - [Titanic](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/) - [Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/) - [Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/) - [Independence Day](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/) - [Armageddon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/) - [Pearl Harbor](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213149/) - [Batman & Robin](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118688/) - [Godzilla](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120685/) - [Wild Wild West](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120891/) It's interesting that every single one of these had a huge budget. (Perhaps this is understandable: more people would see a big-budget film and vote on it.) --- ## Comments - **Michelle** _5 Dec 2006 12:37 pm_: Hey! Do you have about top 100 anything? Except for movies?