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I like that the top 15 contains movies I'd consider awesome and movies I'd consider utter garbage.

As polarizing as could be.




I noticed that for every movie on the list that I like, I can totally see how others might not. But for most movies that I dislike, I just don't get how people can genuinely enjoy them.

I don't know what that says about anything but I found it curious.


I'm the same way and I think this might be a manifestation of both the false consensus effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect) and false uniqueness effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False-uniqueness_effect).

When people like something we don't like, we are shocked that they could disagree with us as to how awful that things is. "Can't you see it?! The dialogue is unnatural, the premise is implausible, the production design looks like it was outsourced to the cheapest contractors money could find and the characters are unrelatable! What trauma must you have endured to actually enjoy that trash?! You poor thing!"

But when it comes to something we like that other people don't like ... well, that's understandable after all. We're unique ;)




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