Rotten Tomatoes

rac3r · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Karma :

(The film review site)

Is it just me or are they really miserable on there? I usually have a quick check on IMDB and there when I want to watch a film, I just use it as a guideline. Almost all the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are so negative
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P. · Red Rocket Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Karma :

No, just newer films are pretty shit, good ones are pretty rare now Crying or Very sad

BumpingUglys · Trackday Trickster Joined: 12 Oct 2010 Karma :

RT is too media driven imo. Reviews based on a bunch of tossers trying to fill column inches.

Not that imdb is much better, but at least most of the reviews are by folks that have at least a passing interest in what's being shown.

Nai · World Chat Champion Joined: 18 Apr 2010 Karma :

Rotten Tomatoes has no tolerance to plain good 'switch off the brain' films either. Just cause blowing stuff up isn't classic literature, doesn't mean it makes bad or unsuccessful films.

I used to like all the old Arnie stuff Sad

GhostRider · World Chat Champion Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Karma :

Fuck reading reviews on any site or in any newspaper.

The best indicator of whether a film is decent or not is to simply go on IMDB and look at the overall rating, if it's really shit (1-4/10) and 4000 people agree, the chances are it's going to be shit, if it's floating around 5-7/10 then it's probably worth a watch with a slight risk it's going to be cack because evidently it's not going to be everyones cup of tea, 8/10 and above and you can be pretty sure it's going to be a good film, providing it's remotely in your viewing interests to begin with.

To be honest these film critics who get so much praise for slating other peoples work....well hows about you go out and make a better fucking movie to show them how it's done since you seem to be such a fucking expert? Oh wait, you can't, because you think being a fat cunt sat watching films all day makes you an expert on the subject when in actual fact it doesn't.

I've found the film reviews in the Metro and Daily mail are the worst, unless it's some period drama about how some slag in the 16th century sucked off the stable boy to get away from her abusive rich husband, they rate them as total shit, when I've watched the same films and been thoroughly entertained, as has anyone else that's watched the films.

Film critics, what a bunch of useless humans.

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The Artist · Super Spammer Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Karma :

IMDB ftw, as ghostrider said under 6 and I don't usually bother watching unless someone I know has suggested it. 6-7 good film, 7-8 great film. 8+ Usually brilliant. I think the highest rated film is 9.1 or something.

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pinkyfloyd · Super Spammer Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Karma :

I agree with Ghostrider on this one. I never take reviews on face value.

All too many times I've seen the posters "Film magazine say best movie in years", "5 stars says Empire". Yadda yadda. Newspapers then go on and say its a terrible movie.

A movie review is nothing more than the persons opinion of the movie. Personally I think Aliens is the greatest movie ever made and Titanic is one of the worst movies ever made. Not everyone will agree with me and many will argue that Titanic is the best movie they have ever seen, my sister and her friends went to see the thing 7 times in the cinema!!! I struggled through it once and it was torture.

You want to know how good or bad a movie is then go and see it. The Imdb is good to get a rough idea but thats all it is. You will never get a movie that has the full 10.0 rating and if you were among 100 people who reviewed the movie you may well be the 1% that thinks the movie sucked giving the movie a 9.9 rating.
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Tenko · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 09 Jul 2011 Karma :

The easiest way is to find a reviewer of similar taste to yourself. Over the years I have found both Mark Kermode and 'Wossie' are usually spot on for my liking...

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Charlie · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 May 2007 Karma :

I posted this in a similar thread a while back. There is a website called Movie Lens which lets you sign up, rate some movies from a list and then it begins to recommend films you'd like. Seems to work quite well and Bonny tried it when I posted up last time and said how impressed he was.
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Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

Interesting "weighted average" system they've got going. I've had a peek through some of their breakdowns, and it does seem to be doing a good job of weeding out fanboi excesses and astroturfing. If you like a poorly rated film, consider rating it 7 or 8 - it looks like 10s are just pruned out of the average score.
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