Rotten Tomatoes is the most rudimentary dumb rating system available

Submitted by Adventurous_Buffalo6 t3_12757rh in movies

Just wanted to express how I hate Rotten Tomatoes. I mean, how can people take seriously a system based on Good or Bad as the only options of rating? If a movie is good but not excellent it will be just be seen as a bad movie. I can’t even count the amount of excellent movies that have bad rating in Rotten Tomatoes. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams and Kikujiro are just some examples. MUBI and IMDB are probably the most accurate websites in my opinion

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Mr_Evil_Dr_Porkchop t1_jecmqyy wrote

You should never take any rating system seriously as your preferences can differentiate from the ones that critics have. IMDB ratings are just as flawed from a qualitative standpoint

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Right-Ad-5647 t1_jecn64l wrote

Yet I still heavily rely on those ratings scores. I'm ashamed of myself.

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Jerrymoviefan3 t1_jeco8ye wrote

People with an IQ above 100 switched to Metacritic years ago.

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foddon t1_jecobs3 wrote

It's simply what percentage of critics recommend seeing it, how can that be a bad rating system? If you don't care about critics recommendations then you shouldn't be looking at any rating system to begin with.

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LackingInPatience t1_jeconzu wrote

I don't use Rotten Tomatoes nor IMDB tbh. I can never trust these so called "critics". It just gives you a ballpark of the quality of the movie but try to find a critic you like and resonate with and watch their reviews for movies.

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meowskywalker t1_jecp352 wrote

Why do you need anything from critics other than “yeah I think it’s worth watching” or “no i don’t think it’s worth watching.” That is the purpose of critics. That is their only purpose.

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Remote-Ad-2686 t1_jecq0as wrote

Well prior to this system from somewhere around 2000 , you had Siskel and Ebert on the local news or Sundays. Sooo for the time it was an improvement. The question now is , what’s better? Movie phone?

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Archamasse t1_jecqpt7 wrote

IMDB is absolutely useless for anything with a woman or anybody not white in the marketing. The split second some Youtube grifter plugs that title into his madlibbed ragebait for the week, it's over.

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cbbuntz t1_jecr8he wrote

Replying to foddon (#2,509,706)

I find that how much I like a movie usually coincides pretty close to RT ratings. Pretty much any movie I hate is below 25% and almost any movie I love is above 75%.

People love to dismiss it, but I find it helpful.

That said, Metacritic ratings make me think "seriously?" though. It takes a lot to break 80% there.

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mbcook t1_jecrdps wrote

It’s a rating of what percentage of critics think it’s worth watching, not a rating of how good the movie is on an objective scale.

That’s a useful tool.

A movie can be fantastic but only for a very limited audience. A movie can be ‘ok’ but a fun watch for everyone.

Also remember that the older the movie, the fewer reviews tend to be available, especially for foreign films. Additionally all reviews are products of their time.

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twfilms t1_jecwfj4 wrote

Fuck me with a pitchfork, I wish mods would ban these threads on sight.

Don’t make the fact that you don’t understand how Rotten Tomatoes actually works everyone else’s problem.

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zenejinzorin t1_jed4htg wrote

I've never given them a thought. Pretty worthless rating system.

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DynamicPJQ t1_jedbpjc wrote

I agree. But don’t come to Reddit with logical opinions. You’ll be disappointed.

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Holanz t1_jedc4r6 wrote

Newer movies have more reviews.

Overall, it shows how popular or mass appeal a movie has. The likelihood that a person likes it.

Another reason why comedy movies are so divisive.

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DarkReaper90 t1_jedd87r wrote

You can see at a glance the reviews and scores that make it up you know.

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TheRealClose t1_jedg7a6 wrote

Because the Tomatometer is not a rating system.

They actually so show the average rating when you click on the score for more info, but no one really talks about that.

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Joseph_Furguson t1_jee5n1k wrote

The problem is you not understanding how Rotten Tomatoes works. If a hundred critics saw a movie and 60 did not like, Rotten Tomatoes said 40 percent. It means 40 critics liked a movie. It is not a fucking grade like high school and doesn't represent overall quality of said endeavor. It also doesn't mean you can't like something critics did not.

Furthermore, critics don't need to justify their existence when you disagree with them. That is an annoying side effect of this argument. "I disagree with the critics on said movie, and because I'm the only one with a brain, the critics are wrong. Therefore, they don't need to have a job."

Have you ever thought you are in the wrong if you like something critics didn't? You obviously like garbage and they don't.

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