1 The Cat in the Hat: Ouch! {anchor:The Cat in the Hat: Ouch!} Just how bad is the recently released {link:The Cat In The Hat movie|http://imdb.com/title/tt0312528/}? To quantify its badness, I noted that its current IMDB rating is 2.9. Then, I referred to {link:an analysis that I performed on The Hulk's IMDB rating|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/6/22/0526/26778}, in which I computed this percentile chart for movies in IMBD: {code:none} IMBD MOVIE RANK PERCENTILE VS. USER RATING (JUNE 2003) PERCENTILE USER RATING 0% |* 0.000 5% |-------------* 3.000 10% |----------------* 3.700 15% |------------------* 4.100 20% |--------------------* 4.500 25% |----------------------* 4.800 30% |-----------------------* 5.100 35% |------------------------* 5.300 40% |--------------------------* 5.600 45% |---------------------------* 5.800 50% |----------------------------* 6.000 55% |-----------------------------* 6.200 60% |------------------------------* 6.400 65% |-------------------------------* 6.600 70% |--------------------------------* 6.800 75% |---------------------------------* 7.100 80% |----------------------------------* 7.300 85% |------------------------------------* 7.600 90% |-------------------------------------* 7.900 95% |----------------------------------------* 8.500 100% |------------------------------------------------* 10.000 {code} The chart places The Cat In The Hat's amazingly low 2.9 into the sub-5% category. ~~That's right, The Cat In The Hat is worse than 95% of the movies that have been made in recent history.~~ In other words, I won't be seeing it. 2003-11-24 17:21:11.472 2003-11-24 17:21:08.144