Why such a low rating?

Saw it in Edinburgh in June. Great reception by the audience, very funny yet moving film, Marianna deservedly won Best New Director award. Should be a 7 or 8, don't know who's voting so low for this.

Dunno... great review here, tho:

http://shareddarkness.com/2008/10/08/good-dick.aspx

Sounds really interesting...

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I had high hopes for this film, having seen the trailer...but what a disappointment. Full marks for trying to do something different with the 'boy meets girl' thing - in this case, video shop geek (Jason Ritter) meets porn-obsessed near-agoraphobic little rich girl (Marianna Palka). Niche, but promising. Unfortunately, there's no emotional payoff and okay, love is blind and all that, but we never really understand WHY this nameless guy would pursue (hell, let's be honest, stalk ) this nameless and resistant girl. And who exactly are we rooting for here? When the girl cleans up her act, puts on a dress (aah, she's pretty, really!), gets a job (we know this from two almost subliminal scenes of her in a coffee shop?)and confronts her creepy Daddy, it all happens so fast it just doesn't ring true. The tone is nicely downbeat and discomfiting (which is fine) but also uneven and unengaging (which isn't). With all that dirty talk it should have been very funny, but it just falls flat. There's an emotionally charged scene, for instance, between the video shop owner, Eric and our 'hero' which hints at an interesting backstory, but it comes out of nowhere - and then goes nowhere. A shame, because there is a great idea here which, with the right treatment, could have been an oddball classic.

Here's what A.V. Club had to say.

"In Marianna Palka's quirked-out romantic comedy, homeless video-store employee Jason Ritter becomes smitten with a mousy, porn-obsessed customer played by Palka. Ritter is the kind of cutesy emo-boy who sleeps on Palka's couch, then wakes up early so he can tie a string to her foot, attached to a thank-you note in the other room. And she's the kind of impenetrably offbeat gal who doesn't think it's strange when he insists on washing her hair before he'll let her wear a piece of jewelry he wants to share. Not a single line or gesture in Good Dick has anything to do with the world in which real people live, but it's just another day in increasingly irrelevant Indieville."

Don’t blame someone else for setting the trap that you were stupid enough to walk into.

The rating is 6.1 which is a bit high if you ask me. I think it's about a 5.9. Rock on!

I just finished watching this and I thought it was very good. I watch at least one movie every day and I have to say, this film was very good but not perfect. I'd attribute the 1/10 votes on IMDb to haters only. Almost no film deserves a 1/10 and unfortunately fans will vote 10/10 to counter the bullsh!t 1/10 hater votes.

As for the story, of all the 6 Billion people living on Earth, I think it's quite possible that there are characters and situations such as those depicted in this film. Sorry to those who think it was unrealistic, but I do believe you've been conditioned to expect only certain hackneyed situations and characters in movies. I'd take THIS kind of film/story over the cliche bullsh!t of "guys with guns" that neophyte filmmakers seem intent on propagating.

It was hard to watch at times but it was worth it.

Great soundtrack. Great leads. Great casting. Great writing. Great direction.

I was a little confused by the casting of Tom Arnold. I'm not sure, since his role was so small, what good it does to cast a known celebrity in a film full of unknowns. He kind of stands out like a sore thumb at a time in the story where you really shouldn't be distracting from the storyline.

I'll be looking for more films from this director.

Because the MPAA is a force of PRUDE religious rich f_cks! They will do whatever they can to burry this movie, because the truth of it embarrasses them. Just look at what happened to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106471/ Boxing Helena and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414951/ The Quiet, which both are very similar come to think of it;
Strong women make a VERY TRUE and GOOD movie, deserve a REALLY high rating, so they need to be pushed down by the jealous fat menopausal ladies at the MPAA, and of course by the jealous idiots out there that never understand humans and/or their behaviour, let alone know what love is when it doesn't involve the normal socially accepted routines.