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Rotten Tomatos movie grades, work for you?
« on: June 11, 2012, 05:50:05 PM »
I'd say the rotten tomato movie review service (also on "flixster" app) is pretty darn reliable for me.

There are two review scores, the aggregate of critics, and the aggregate of users.   If both are high, the movie is almost always to my liking.  However, if one is high and one is low, it's almost MORE predictive of how I will respond to the movie.

For example, when a movie that I am really interested in, like Hangover 2, gets shredded by the critic score and goes through the roof on the user score, then I know I'll like it.  Because the dumbass users are like me....we know it will have zero plot, but we are still excited so see the dick jokes and stuff.  Just affirms that I am going to get EXACTLY what I am after.

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Re: Rotten Tomatos movie grades, work for you?
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2012, 06:15:19 PM »
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Re: Rotten Tomatos movie grades, work for you?
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2012, 06:21:57 PM »
Pretty reliable. Only let me down once with "New York Minute" with the Olsen twins. I mean I gave that movie 5 stars. What do they know? smh.

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Re: Rotten Tomatos movie grades, work for you?
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2012, 06:25:46 PM »
Here's the other great part for me.

If the critics panned it, but the reason they gave doesn't bother me, and user score is still high, then I'll probably like it.  The opposite is true too.  If they critics hate it for the reason I hate it, but the users still love it, then I know it's rough ridin' horrible in my book....like "it was too sappy," but then it was gate crashed by girls night out, eff it, I will not touch that movie. 

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Re: Rotten Tomatos movie grades, work for you?
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2012, 06:58:40 PM »
Flixster app  :love:

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Re: Rotten Tomatos movie grades, work for you?
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2012, 07:28:51 PM »
the last movie i went to was inception.  i figured it was going to be ok and it was ok.

i think i have a great sense of sniffing out crap movies.


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Re: Rotten Tomatos movie grades, work for you?
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2012, 08:56:56 PM »
yeah it's great. i love reading the top critics reviews and comparing notes. like i knew the twilight girl was a terrible choice to play snow white, and then they panned the crap out of her performance (lack thereof).. i don't get how directors can make such obvious casting blunders  :dunno:
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« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2012, 09:48:09 PM »
yeah it's great. i love reading the top critics reviews and comparing notes. like i knew the twilight girl was a terrible choice to play snow white, and then they panned the crap out of her performance (lack thereof).. i don't get how directors can make such obvious casting blunders  :dunno:

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Re: Rotten Tomatos movie grades, work for you?
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2012, 03:14:36 PM »
yeah it's great. i love reading the top critics reviews and comparing notes. like i knew the twilight girl was a terrible choice to play snow white, and then they panned the crap out of her performance (lack thereof).. i don't get how directors can make such obvious casting blunders  :dunno:

They didn't even cast midgets as the midgets.  That's all you need to know.  Why would I see a movie about midgets played by full sized grown ups?

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« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2012, 03:49:42 PM »
Rottentomatoes is excellent, but beware of movies that the critics LOVE but the audience HATES, like Tree of Life.  Movies are a lot like art, critics want to prove to other critics how smart and cultured they are and that can lead to bad crap.  I'm reminded of that 60 minutes piece "Is it Art", loved to listen to some of those critics talk about a square piece of canvas painted green.

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« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2012, 05:05:51 PM »
Rottentomatoes is excellent, but beware of movies that the critics LOVE but the audience HATES, like Tree of Life.  Movies are a lot like art, critics want to prove to other critics how smart and cultured they are and that can lead to bad crap.  I'm reminded of that 60 minutes piece "Is it Art", loved to listen to some of those critics talk about a square piece of canvas painted green.

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« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2012, 09:34:30 PM »
one thing is for sure, the hangover 2 is fantastic

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« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2012, 10:14:14 PM »
Rottentomatoes is excellent, but beware of movies that the critics LOVE but the audience HATES, like Tree of Life.  Movies are a lot like art, critics want to prove to other critics how smart and cultured they are and that can lead to bad crap.  I'm reminded of that 60 minutes piece "Is it Art", loved to listen to some of those critics talk about a square piece of canvas painted green.
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« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2012, 11:01:49 PM »
i've never been to that website.  i don't need other people telling me about a movie to know if i will like it or not.
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« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2012, 02:10:44 AM »
i've never been to that website.  i don't need other people telling me about a movie to know if i will like it or not.

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Re: Rotten Tomatos movie grades, work for you?
« Reply #15 on: June 14, 2012, 09:52:12 AM »
i've never been to that website.  i don't need other people telling me about a movie to know if i will like it or not.

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