The 25 Most Hated/Loved movies on Netflix.

One of the things that Netflix is doing is posting a million dollar reward for someone who can improve their recommendations system by 10 percent. Because of this contest, a lot of data has been disclosed (none of it personal, just aggregate) and patterns begin to emerge. One of the interesting data points about their rental movies is that the top five most frequently rated movies are: (links to movies go to Amazon)

1. Miss Congeniality
2. Independence Day
3. The Patriot
4. The Day After Tomorrow
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Having one contestant of the Netflix contest puzzle over Miss Congeniality's first place led to an investigative bit of SQL gynamnatics to arrive at the the following list of movies that people either really liked or really hated:

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Lost in Translation
3. Pearl Harbor
4. Miss Congeniality
5. Napoleon Dynamite
6. Fahrenheit 9/11
7. The Patriot
8. The Day After Tomorrow
9. Sister Act
10. Armageddon
11. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
12. Independence Day
13. Sweet Home Alabama
14. Titanic
15. Gone in 60 Seconds
16. Twister
17. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
18. Con Air
19. The Fast and the Furious
20. Dirty Dancing
21. Troy
22. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
23. The Passion of the Christ
24. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
25. Pretty Woman

Aside from a couple of these movies (The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation and Kill Bill: Vol. 1), I either haven't seen them or I have seen them and find them unwatchable for a second time. These are the movies that can erupt in heated debate of being good or bad. They are movies that are fluff (romantic comedies and action flicks) or movies that are offbeat to relate to (The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation, Napoleon Dynamite, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) or movies that cater to a specific target audience (Fahrenheit 9/11, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, The Passion of the Christ).