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Rotten Tomatoes is one of the worst rating systems out there. I use IMDB, and even then I take ratings with a grain of salt.
Rotten Tomatoes just combines all the ratings they can get their hands on, they don't rate anything themselves.
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not a movie, but a video game.
call of duty black ops 3. (no spoilers, in case anyone is still to play it.)
during my playthrough i was like:
- start the game
- the flashing text before the mission is way too fast to read. let's record it and play it slowly. huh...intersting.
- this is weird... why is this exactly THAT way that it has never been done before and doesn't make sense to do that way in general?
- this is weird... why do they mention THIS exactly? is that a mcguffin/chekhov's gun?
- this is weird... funny that they display this character how they handle their specific, unusual situation...
- this is weird... the story starts to become awkwardly surrealistic...
- reach the finale... i know there's more to it but i took so long to finish the game that i forgot all the clues, so i don't QUITE understand the meaning
- insert some hours of googling/yt explanations, and there's the big "OOOOOOOH! that's a brilliant display of what's happening to the main character and how it's described in real life!"-moment.
- realization that everyone hates it either because they didnt understand what happened and think it's the most random thing ever or because they understood what happened and think it's lame. sadge.
The amount of times I've found absolute gems that have a 50% rating has caused me to go out of my way to watch them.
Some of them stink, but I feel like critics are like everyone else and some of them can be pretty dense
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This happened to me when recently watching white chicks. Is it a good movie ? No, but how fun it is. I laughed my ass off in front of it. It was absurd.
Sometimes you just want dumb humor that doesn't expect you to take it too seriously.
I long ago swore off taking overall consensus as a good measure of anything. People are, in general, dumb, and that goes doubly so for anything that requires an iota of attention.
Also, letting other people decide for me what's good and what's not is just ridiculous. We can like what we like and that's fine.
The typical experience when you like horror movies... When horror movies get even slightly a better rating, they are often called "Mystery Thriller" or something else, just to avoid the Horror tag. Because somehow it's the law with movie critics that horror must have low rating.
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I actually enjoy reviews more when they disagree with me, sometimes I can even see where they are coming from (sometimes they kinda sound silly), but whatever they didn't like / did like is just not important for me.
but it kinda improves my movie experience, same feeling as when I go with friends to see a movie and we exchange opinions but when I watch them alone.
Very rarely a review has changed my opinion, but sometimes it showed me cool stuff, like the movie avatar tlab was "okay", but the bad reviews actually showed me how awesome the show was in comparison.
fully agree, ratings don't seem to be jack to the actual movie content.
Sometimes hearing what other people think about a movie will give me a different perspective. Either better or worse.
I have the opposite effect, popular movies seem bad to me, for the most part.