Recently I asked about 50 people to give me their worst movie of all time. I clarified that I didn’t mean bad in a “so bad it’s good” sort of way. Rather, we’re talking about viscerally bad. The sort of movie that makes you feel violent inside and conjures up horrid memories of having to watch even a second of it. I took all those PTSD-inducing films and found their IMDb ratings. While there was some alignment between the average IMDb viewer and worst ever, there were quite a few outliers, notably Forest Gump, Gladiator, and Magnolia (I took special exception to this pick).
Overall, the films selected had an average IMDb rating of 6.0 and a median of 6.3. A 6-6.3 is by no means good but it’s also not Battlefield Earth level bad.
And what did I pick? Cat in the Hat obviously.