2022 Peeple’s Poll Results

We put another year behind us so now it’s time to review the results of the Peeple’s Poll. In case you’re not familiar, the RunPee app has a unique poll that asks users what their expectation is for a movie before it starts, then when the movie ends users can add their final/post-movie rating.

Movie Title	Expectation	Post Movie	Difference	votes
Top Gun: Maverick	83.1	91.7	8.6	2243
Everything Everywhere All at Once	80.5	86.8	6.4	637
The Woman King	77.6	86.8	9.2	265
Downton Abbey: A New Era	78.5	86.7	8.2	211
Elvis	75.6	84.3	8.6	597
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	80.4	83.7	3.4	1331
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery	78.6	83.4	4.8	195
Where the Crawdads Sing	72.0	83.3	11.3	301
Avatar: The Way of Water	78.3	82.9	4.7	1058
The Batman	79.4	82.7	3.3	2243
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent	74.1	81.5	7.4	271
Bullet Train	71.4	81.0	9.6	606
The Bob’s Burgers Movie	75.3	80.7	5.4	133
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	80.7	80.3	-0.4	2237
Dog	70.7	79.7	9.0	203
Jackass Forever	71.5	79.5	8.0	116
Nope	77.7	79.4	1.7	680
Thor: Love and Thunder	78.3	79.4	1.1	1853
Devotion	72.7	79.0	6.4	127
Sonic the Hedgehog 2	72.6	78.9	6.4	309
The Lost City	72.1	78.8	6.7	568
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore	74.7	78.6	3.8	654
Uncharted	71.6	78.5	6.9	678
Minions: The Rise of Gru	73.5	78.3	4.9	315
Violent Night	69.6	78.3	8.8	269
The Black Phone	71.3	78.2	6.9	236
Bros	74.2	78.2	4.0	115
Lightyear	72.7	78.2	5.6	350
Barbarian	73.3	78.1	4.8	212
Scream	72.5	78.0	5.6	281
Death on the Nile	72.2	77.7	5.5	409
Ticket to Paradise	71.0	77.6	6.6	206
The Menu	71.2	77.4	6.2	267
The Bad Guys	70.9	77.3	6.4	131
Three Thousand Years of Longing	71.4	77.2	5.8	135
Ambulance	67.5	76.6	9.1	153
See How They Run	70.3	76.3	6.0	132
Smile	69.0	75.4	6.5	224
Black Adam	70.5	75.4	4.9	680
X	68.3	74.7	6.4	105
DC League of Super-Pets	66.6	74.5	7.9	169
The Northman	74.2	74.3	0.1	292
Jurassic World Dominion	73.0	74.3	1.2	1089
The 355	66.8	72.1	5.3	152
Bodies Bodies Bodies	68.5	71.7	3.2	102
Amsterdam	69.3	71.4	2.1	172
Beast	66.3	69.9	3.5	108
Moonfall	66.3	69.3	3.0	201
Don’t Worry Darling	66.0	69.0	3.0	240
Halloween Ends	65.3	67.6	2.3	122
Morbius	62.8	63.7	0.9	376

Notice that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness fell below expectations by -0.4. That’s the first time since we launched the Peeple’s Poll that an MCU movie didn’t meet expectations.

Note: this isn’t all of the movies from 2022. I limited the query to movies that had at least 100 votes entered.

Surprise of the Year

If you had asked me before the year began what the most popular movie would be I wouldn’t have guessed Top Gun: Maverick in a million years. But wow, what a crowd-pleaser it was! In fact, going back to 2018 when the Peeple’s Poll was introduced, Top Gun: Maverick is the 3rd highest-rated movie we’ve ever had. That’s some rare air.

Movie Title	Expectation	Post Movie
Avengers: Endgame	90.1	92.2
Spider-Man: No Way Home	87.2	92.2
Top Gun: Maverick	83.1	91.7
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	82.5	90.6

Movies That Beat Expectations The Most

I always find this an interesting bit of data: which movies performed best over expectations? I guess I’m going to have to put Where the Crawdads Sing on my watch list, and maybe The Woman King as well. I’m most surprised by Ambulance. That looked like a typical Bruckheimer movie. Well, I guess when you look at how low the expectation was before the movie it’s not all that surprising. An expectation of 67.5 is really, really low. What I really wonder is why would anyone go see a movie that they expect to be a D-grade movie? It’s great that it was better than expected, but still, it’s just a C-grade movie.

Movie Title	Expectation	Post Movie	Difference
Where the Crawdads Sing	72.0	83.3	11.3
Bullet Train	71.4	81.0	9.6
The Woman King	77.6	86.8	9.2
Ambulance	67.5	76.6	9.1
Dog	70.7	79.7	9.0
Violent Night	69.6	78.3	8.8
Elvis	75.6	84.3	8.6
Top Gun: Maverick	83.1	91.7	8.6
Downton Abbey: A New Era	78.5	86.7	8.2