I learned in my youth not to read reviews of things I like. It’s unpleasant and pointless to read someone savaging your favorite albums or books.
(More critical analysis can be fine, but regular Internet reviews are not so worthwhile)
I really like The Postman, but I was surprised it had fairly negative reviews
Same. But I’m very into the post apocalyptic genre.
Yeah, seriously. I didn’t realize it was so shit on. I mean it isn’t like top 10, but I’d definitely stop and watch it and enjoy it.
I usually use metacritic. Not as harsh as IMDB and not as easy going as RT.
I use them by genre. A drama or action movie needs a very high score for my tastes.
Comedies usually a 6 or 7 is going to be good for me and a very high score usually means it’s a dramery.
Horror movies with very high scores are usually mainstream over produced like the conjuring. Good horror movies usually are 6-7 like the witch or hededitary
And also, if a movie has a very high meta critic but a very low user rating it usually means the movie will be weird af
IGN 6/10 review for Mouse: PI
I saw “The Bride” in theaters a few months ago and the fact that that movie ISN’T a 0 on imdb invalidates the whole concept of critic reviews for me. Worst movie I have ever seen (and I’ve seen “The Room” twice)
For me, it was the movie AVP2, that was way worse than it’s IMDB rating.
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i stopped thinking imdb or rating for entertainment as “how good it is” but rather “the odds of me liking it” i’ve seen plenty 5 or 6 imdb but i absolutely love it. and 9s as meh.
Exactly. Critics are only useful if your opinions are similar to the critics.
Remember, even in recent years movies have been review-bombed for being “woke”, for instance, with hordes of people upset about things that are not important to the movie, attempting to destroy the reputation of the movie rather than evaluate it fairly on its own merits.
I was just watching facts behind “Robin Hood men in tights”, and apparently Siskel gave it half a star, which is absolutely insane. It’s no blazing saddles, but it’s one of the better Mel Brooks movies
So yeah, review scores are basically a good way to decide whether you should go to the theaters and watch it or wait till it’s on streaming. But outside of that, it’s not a good indicator of whether or not you’re going to enjoy the show.
Oh wait. The previous commenter didn’t specify if they’re talking about the critics score or the general public one.
Personally I find I usually agree with the public opinion of movies on imdb, and most things below a 6 I tend to not enjoy. Franchises with hardcore fans are a notorious exception to scores being reliable because they often overhype them (such as Star Wars or Marvel etc). Otherwise the score system works, more or less.
The critics’ score is absolutely meaningless to me. Might as well be a random number for all I care
unironically, I loved the mario bros movie from the 90s. It’s rated REALLY low on imdb, but I loved that film.
It’s one of those movies that is a horrible part of its franchise but wouldn’t be so bad just standing on its own. The only thing it really had to do with Mario Bros was it used character names and some items from the games. It was a wtf for fans but if you ignored that part, it was ok on its own.
I think similarly of SW ep 8. It’s an absolute dogshit Star Wars movie but if Rian had instead made up like his own space balls universe except not really funny, and did the same movie there, it wouldn’t have been bad. But instead it made me stop caring so much about Star Wars. Which isn’t really a bad thing tbh, though probably not what Disney had in mind when they bought the franchise.
I think about how I haven’t reviewed a movie on imdb/rotten tomatoes in years. If you haven’t either, then don’t trust the user reviews.
And then you go to Letterboxd where it’s even worse.
I feel IMDB ratings for new movies are ridiculously gamed / paid-for. Like the amazon reviews scandal all over again.
I don’t think I have ever once looked at the ratings score on a film.
Which is weird, because I’m active on rateyourmusic and do put stock in those ratings, and I also pretty religiously check customer reviews on Steam for games.
But for whatever reason, I couldn’t care less what people think in terms of film. 🤷
Imbd giving 28 years later 7.3/10 is crazy
wait till you find about filmaffinity
What about it?
Sad that IMDB now hide the user opinions behind their login screen. A score alone isn’t helpful at all.
Is it just me, or is IMDB becoming shittier and shittier?
They recently started demanding an account to read user reviews.
Well it is owned by Amazon
Ah, now it all makes sense to me.
TMDb and NeoDB.social are the hot alternatives.
We don’t have to agree always. There where movies I liked, and people where saying otherwise.
