• Carl@sh.itjust.works
      111·
      10 days ago

      My friend won’t watch anything with a below 80% score. They have to be masterpieces.

  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
    34·
    11 days ago

    Except, since each vote toward good/rotten is binary, it really means that a high score is not “best” but is instead “least objectionable”

    • amorpheus@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 days ago

      RT is a great vibe check. I don’t use movie ratings directly to decide what to watch, but to gauge whether a movie that already seems interesting is likely to be worth the time.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    202·
    10 days ago

    We recently watched a movie that audience and critics adored. It was god awful. I don’t trust those ratings (or any ratings) really.

  • bugs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 days ago

    I wouldn’t call myself a film buff but I’ve watched thousands of films and shows. My gauge is usually the metascores, with some exceptions. Knowing this, I generally watch films with a metacritic score over 55, and am usually whelmed. It’s also important to understand directors and their previous works, and styles so you know what to expect. I still prefer imdb’s ratings generally.

    • Mustakrakish@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 days ago

      I tend to judge more on the plot summary. If it sounds interesting I’ll give it a watch. A good idea can get me imagining things even if the implementation isn’t that good.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    10 days ago

    God Awful Movies covered Boondock Saints a couple years back, and one of the hosts demanded to know who replaced the movie they loved in college with some intolerable horseshit.

  • SSTF@lemmy.world
    5·
    10 days ago

    I don’t believe I’ve ever let an RT score sway my decision to watch something. I sometimes forget RT exists until someone else brings it up.

    If RT had any sway on me I wouldn’t have watched and loved Arena (1989), American Ninja (1975), Screamers (1995), Chopping Mall (1986), or Dead Heat (1988) just to name a few excellent viewing experiences.

  • warm@kbin.earth
    51·
    10 days ago

    No rating sites are good. There’s always people rating 10/10.

    • Grumpy@sh.itjust.works
      71·
      10 days ago

      In the big picture of things, that doesn’t matter. As long as sufficient number of people are voting, they too are part of the statistic norm. Every title will have some people voting 10s and 1s. And rating scores are only meaningful as relative values. So a title with avg score of 9 is probably better than a title with avg score of 6. Instead of 9 or 6 is objectively bad or good.

    • SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de
      11·
      9 days ago

      Not understanding your hate, I looked at their list of movies.

      Must have been incredibly lucky, but I’ve seen only a few a24 movies and liked all of them.

      Here are the movies for reference:

      • under the skin (2013)
      • the rover (2014)
      • amy (2015)
      • the hole in the ground (2019)
      • midsommar (2019)
      • the elephant queen (2019 apple tv release)
      • Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
      • the whale (2022)
      • priscilla (2023)
      • civil war (2024)

      Now I get that psychological horror is not for everyone, but I mean if something like priscilla does not get under your skin, I don’t know…

  • Sabin10@lemmy.world
    723·
    10 days ago

    Artsy fartsy pretentiousness is now more likely to be “main character is good at stuff but is not a white male”.