Yea, but all of this is true.
hey why does everyone have the noodles on their head???//
As somebody who frequently dislikes extremely popular movies, everybody else has trash taste.
Inception was just ok and Interstellar got me to stop watching Nolan movies all together.
I remember being fairly drunk and going to see Interstellar at an indy arthouse movie theater that sold you overpriced craft beers. I remember relatively little of the finer points of Interstellar other than the fact that I couldn’t stop laughing at how monumentally dumb it was. I have no idea why they even had it so that McConaughey’s character had a son that he just basically didn’t give a shit about because he wasn’t as smart as his dad and sister. He’s like “Oh, I miss my daughter Murph so much. Also the other one is probably still alive assuming he never drank any pesticide. What’s his name again? Stumpy? Whatever.” Also I loved how Matt Damon played a soulless robot better than Bill Irwin, who voiced the actual soulless machines in the movie. God, what a fucking terrible movie.
Normalize people having their own opinions about things
This is called confirmation bias
honestly, i stopped caring for aggregate scores & started reading individual user reviews, particularly the ones in the 6-9/10 range seem to be the most honest. then I’ll watch the movie anyway & form my own opinion. every piece of media is essentially someone’s masterpiece, including video games too, even the bad ones are worth playing just to see someone else’s perspective.
if we’re talking the worst of the worst, like the last airbender m*vie, i personally dont regret watching it cuz it really put the good movies into perspective.
Same, it’s why I prefer the “did you like it? Yes, no. Why?” Review system.
I think asking people to score 1-10 is too easy to mess up.
It also leaves room for important “movie is awful but I love it anyway” reviews.
if we’re talking the worst of the worst, like the last airbender m*vie, i personally dont regret watching it cuz it really put the good movies into perspective.
This is one reason I love MST3K. It’s like a film school where you learn all the wrong things to do, so when you see them done right you appreciate it more.
I’ve only seen rotten tomatoes enough to have looked harder at this macro to see it is in fact that. I judge my movies by how many people are seeding them. I have the digital space and real life time to watch whatever. I’ve seen the worst shit and the most incredible masterpieces. People should be more thankful for everything, good and bad. You won’t have it forever.
I only ever use those sites if i really disliked a movie but can’t figure out why.
As a way to select a movie they’re really pointless, I think a system that matches tastes of people and recommends movies based on that would be more promising.
Wish there was something like taste.io but open
Film critics are the people that went to film school but couldn’t get a job making movies. They tend to judge a movie on it’s technical merits.
Audiences mostly just want a good story. If the cinematography isn’t great, if the shot composition is boring, the editing is janky, the audience may not care as much about those things, but a film critic will obsess over those kinds of problems.
A film critic can be so wowed by technical proficiency they don’t notice it’s in service of a poorly written story.
Also a film critic watches movies as their job. They’re more likely to notice when a movie isn’t all that original. They tend to want something that’s unique to make their job of watching movies to be less boring. Someone in the audience doesn’t care about that so much, mostly it’s just important that the movie is entertaining. If the movie is sort of like a movie they didn’t see, why would they care?
So I think a high critic score low audience score means the movie looks really good, but probably has a poorly written story. The critics went to film school, not writing school. For the converse, it’s probably going to be fun and entertaining but isn’t going to change my life.
Your own opinion is the only one that matters.
Unless you like Expendables 4. If you liked that you deserve prison.
Thats three too many Expendables!
But the more they make the more Expendable they are!
I have yet to watch an audience 80%+ movie that I didn’t like.
I’ve seen plenty 80%+ critic movies that ended up being mastrubatory garbage.
So now, audience score is all that matters to me. 50%+ gets a chance in my book.
Still hoping for a decentralized FOSS alternative to Letterboxd/IMDB/TMDB/etc. Like what BookWyrms is compared to Goodreads. I really like logging what I consume (read, watch, listen) but I don’t like relying on and donating my data and reviews to for-profit companies.
Difference between critic and audience tells me if it’s an artsy movie that I won’t understand.
Honestly Rotten Tomatoes is basically useless when discussing film. I’ve been using Letterboxd for reviews and I get much more insight on if I’ll like the movie.
Because consider that people who post on RT are either snobs, frequent movie goers, or are emotional about the movie in some way. And a critics aggregate is an awful way to do anything which is why metacritic is useless most of the time.
What people should do is take some of their favorite movies or games or whatever and look up reviews. Find ones that you agree with. And then use those sites or people as sounding boards for new movies. If that doesn’t work, move on to the next critic till you find one whose perspective aligns with yours.
