• Evie @lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Who has ever taken RT as a legitimate critiques site? I mean; half the movies they say suck, are in fact amazing, and their high rated ones, are just Hollywood garbage with some A list names…

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      Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t rate movies, they aggregate scores based on favorable/unfavorable reviews. All movie ratings are unreliable unless you are familiar with the reviewer or read their explanations.

      I love the separate RT critic and audience scores. For something like Cocaine Bear I only care about the audience rating, while more serious movies I check out both.

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        1 year ago

        Huh, interesting.

        I have only ever seen them referenced to movies I look up. I always see a rotten tomato score and they usually are wrong… I didn’t realize RT is bigger than that

        Thanks 😊👍

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          Yeah, the generic Rotten Tomato score that you see in articles is the critics score, and critics are all over the place. The Rotten Tomatoes website lets you see both scores and all of the individual reviews for both critics (with a quick summary of around 10 or so right there) and audience reviews. You can dive into any of those to get a better idea of whether their opinion is worth paying attention to.

          For example, if you skim the critic reviews and the negative ones criticize the movie for including things you like, then you can dismiss those reviews. It does a great job of putting them all in one place for visibility.

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        I second this. Here in Sweden we used to have a movie site where they applied some magic to the calculation and presented how you would rate a movie on a scale 1-5 and they were always correct within ±1 point. So fx a 3 could be either 2, 3 or 4 etc etc. While the site still exists it has seen better days so RT had been my go-to site for movie scores and reviews.

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        The new Mario movie comes to mind for me. I don’t normally watch movies, but I agree with the 95% audience score even though critics hated it. Everybody else I know who saw the movie liked it too.

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      I went there once to check for opinions on the 2016 Deadpool movie.

      Then I saw a negative review of some angry dough ball crying about why Deadpool was feminist propaganda.

      I left that site and never looked back.