A way to find all the movies that got a certain grade on Cinemascore?

September 21, 2017 3:47 PM

I'm trying to find a list of the movies that got D's on Cinemascore. But I can't come up with the right Google search terms. The menu options on Cinemascore itself lead nowhere. Anybody know a trick?

There are lots of articles about the "F" movies, and most of them give the full list. But where did these articles get the information?

I want to know because I'm interested in more movies like that, and if you know anything about Cinemascore you know that a D is virtually the same as an F.

posted by Rich Smorgasbord to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

Best answer: Here's a one-page list of all movies in their database. Unfortunately the grades themselves are images rather than searchable text, and there's no sort mechanism, but you can pull the data pretty easily from the source code. Here are all 83 D/D+/D- titles:

ALEXANDER (2004) D+
BABYLON A.D. (2008) D+
BATTLEFIELD EARTH (2000) D+
BLACK AND WHITE (2000) D+
BLACK DAHLIA, THE (2006) D+
BLAIR WITCH (2016) D+
CHERNOBYL DIARIES (2012) D+
CIRCLE, THE (2017) D+
CLOSER (2004) D+
COLD LIGHT OF DAY, THE (2012) D+
CRISSCROSS (1992) D+
DEVIL'S DUE (2014) D+
EVENT HORIZON (1997) D+
EXTREME OPS (2002) D+
FRESH HORSES (1988) D+
GET CARTER (2000) D+
GODSEND (2004) D+
HAYWIRE (2012) D+
JAWBREAKER (1999) D+
JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES (1998) D+
KING KONG LIVES (1986) D+
KNOCK OFF (1998) D+
LEONARD PART 6 (1987) D+
MARCI X (2003) D+
MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) D+
NEW WORLD, THE (2006) D+
NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (1991) D+
ORDER, THE (2003) D+
PALMETTO (1998) D+
PINOCCHIO (2002) D+
PRIMEVAL (2007) D+
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (2002) D+
RUINS, THE (2008) D+
SAY IT ISN'T SO (2001) D+
SHANGHAI SURPRISE (1986) D+
SHE'S SO LOVELY (1997) D+
SPEED ZONE (1989) D+
SUGAR AND SPICE (2001) D+
THIRTEENTH FLOOR, THE (1999) D+
ULTRAVIOLET (2006) D+
URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT (2000) D+
VALENTINE (2001) D+
VERY BAD THINGS (1998) D+
WEATHER MAN, THE (2005) D+
WHIPPED (2000) D+



ABANDON (2002) D
AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) D
APOLLO 18 (2011) D
ASTRONAUT'S WIFE, THE (1999) D
AVENGERS, THE (1998) D
BIG BOUNCE, THE (2004) D
COUNSELOR, THE (2013) D
DISAPPOINTMENTS ROOM, THE (2016) D
ENVY (2004) D
FORSAKEN, THE (2001) D
HAPPENING, THE (2008) D
ICE HARVEST, THE (2005) D
IT COMES AT NIGHT (2017) D
JEEPERS CREEPERS (2001) D
LAST EXORCISM, THE (2010) D
LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU, THE (2004) D
MOVIE 43 (2013) D
MY SOUL TO TAKE (2010) D
ONE MISSED CALL (2008) D
PLAY IT TO THE BONE (1999) D
PLEDGE, THE (2001) D
RAVENOUS (1999) D
SPLICE (2010) D
SUPERNOVA (1999) D
TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE, THE (2002) D
WING COMMANDER (1999) D



AMERICAN, THE (2010) D-
BOOK OF SHADOWS: BLAIR WITCH 2 (2000) D-
DARK WATER (2005) D-
EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) D-
GIGLI (2003) D-
NINTH GATE, THE (2000) D-
SKYLINE (2010) D-
SOUND OF THUNDER, A (2005) D-
SUMMER OF SAM (1999) D-
TURN IT UP (2000) D-
VANILLA SKY (2001) D-
WILLARD (2003) D-

When I get a chance I'll put the full list (3000+ titles) somewhere public.
posted by Rhaomi at 5:26 PM on September 21, 2017 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Oh my god, this is great! Vanilla Sky! Ninth Gate! LIFE AQUATIC! (must've been marketed as a Bill Murray comedy) Punch-Drunk Love! (figured it'd be there) Haywire...HAYWIRE? The New World? These are fascinating. Thanks so much.
posted by Rich Smorgasbord at 5:53 PM on September 21, 2017

OK, here's a pastebin of the titles+years+scores, cleaned up and tab-separated. Should work fine for dropping into Excel or whatnot for further filtering.

On preview: No problem! It was a neat exercise.
posted by Rhaomi at 5:57 PM on September 21, 2017 [1 favorite]

(That pastebin has all 3,778 titles, just to clarify, not just the D-level ones.)
posted by Rhaomi at 6:09 PM on September 21, 2017

Response by poster: Interesting C minuses:

Drive
Bringing Out the Dead
Dead Ringers (hah!)
9 1/2 Weeks
Magnolia
Miller's Crossing
Royal Tenenbaums

Well, I'm going to go read angry IMDB user reviews for a couple days now.
posted by Rich Smorgasbord at 6:38 PM on September 21, 2017