Edit: I also now kind of want to do a web scraping project and see if there’s any correlation between scores and whether the media in question is owned by Comcast or Warner Bros
Disagreeing with the critics is a time honored cinematic tradition. It’s like they’re always expecting Oscar worthy stories and performances. Sometimes I just wanna watch a bunch of cars go fast, or explosions go off, that doesn’t mean it’s inherently a bad movie.
But there’s still a good and a bad way to make those movies. I usually find RT a good indicator if a movie I’m interested in will be worth watching. Especially looking at both scores. The critic score is a good indicator if the movie is competently made, the user score shows if people felt entertained. If it’s 50% critics and 80% user it’s one of those that won’t get Oscars but should be fun to watch once. If it’s 70% critic and 40% user it’s that the director tried something unconventional and it didn’t click with people. Etc.
it was wierd how they are praising crappy shows with such high praise, now it make sense. like the reason seasons of ISAIP, and the shitty apple movie of rob mythic quest.
Yea, I haven’t been using them a lot but they were still somewhat reliable until a couple years ago when their ratings started feeling off. The last straw for me was two years ago when I actually convinced a bunch of friends to see the barbie movie based on RT scores. Never again.
I used to work at the Comcast Center in Philly. In 2010 they won the Consumerist’s “Worst Company in the World” contest (after being the runner-up the previous year). The following year they sent out a company-wide email asking employees and contractors to vote for any other company. They were bailed out by BP and Deepwater Horizon, “fortunately”.
They would also regularly send out emails telling employees to download the Comcast and Xfinity apps and rate them 5 stars. I would just assume there’s a correlation between rotten tomato scores and ownership of the media.
No wonder I find their scores so unreliable
Edit: I also now kind of want to do a web scraping project and see if there’s any correlation between scores and whether the media in question is owned by Comcast or Warner Bros
I usually find the tomato review pretty good. There have been times where I thought movies were shite that had a high user score.
But the critics score on there is utterly useless to me, I never agree with their shit.
Disagreeing with the critics is a time honored cinematic tradition. It’s like they’re always expecting Oscar worthy stories and performances. Sometimes I just wanna watch a bunch of cars go fast, or explosions go off, that doesn’t mean it’s inherently a bad movie.
But there’s still a good and a bad way to make those movies. I usually find RT a good indicator if a movie I’m interested in will be worth watching. Especially looking at both scores. The critic score is a good indicator if the movie is competently made, the user score shows if people felt entertained. If it’s 50% critics and 80% user it’s one of those that won’t get Oscars but should be fun to watch once. If it’s 70% critic and 40% user it’s that the director tried something unconventional and it didn’t click with people. Etc.
it was wierd how they are praising crappy shows with such high praise, now it make sense. like the reason seasons of ISAIP, and the shitty apple movie of rob mythic quest.
Yea, I haven’t been using them a lot but they were still somewhat reliable until a couple years ago when their ratings started feeling off. The last straw for me was two years ago when I actually convinced a bunch of friends to see the barbie movie based on RT scores. Never again.
I used to work at the Comcast Center in Philly. In 2010 they won the Consumerist’s “Worst Company in the World” contest (after being the runner-up the previous year). The following year they sent out a company-wide email asking employees and contractors to vote for any other company. They were bailed out by BP and Deepwater Horizon, “fortunately”.
They would also regularly send out emails telling employees to download the Comcast and Xfinity apps and rate them 5 stars. I would just assume there’s a correlation between rotten tomato scores and ownership of the media.
Wouldn’t it be nice to think that proving they were rigging the ratings, would stop them doing it?