Thursday, January 06, 2011
The Sequel Map
The Sequel Map – Which Sequels Were Better or Worse Than the Original? "As evidence, all sequels with Rotten Tomatoes scores have been categorized below, with the originals’ scores on the X-axis, and the sequels’ scores on the Y. Films at the center line are sequels with the exact rating as the original; films above are sequels that have surpassed the original; films below, ones that fared worse."
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Do you think they needed to turn the map on an angle to make their point? If they left it with the X-axis of original movie rating horizontal and the y-axis sequel rating vertical and just said anything above the 45 degree line is a sequel better than the original, would that have worked?
I find this hard to read. The most important thing here is that movies above the line had better sequels but the rotation makes the other information about ratings hard to figure. Perhaps I am stuck in my Cartesian with horizontal and vertical lines theatre.
I had the same reaction. I got past it though. I'm not sure if they had left it in a standard orientation it would have taken me any less time to figure out what being on one side or the other of the line meant.
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