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meowskywalker t1_jczhfmh wrote

Rottentomatoes is the best because the one question you should be asking a critic: “Is this movie worth spending my time and money on?” is the only question that rottentomatoes answers. “71 percent of critics believe that, yea, it is worth spending your time and money on.” That’s all you get from them.

“Is it the greatest movie this year? Is is barely worth watching?” These are questions you need to answer for yourself. Critics can’t tell you that. They can’t even really tell you if you yourself will agree with their assessment that the movie is worth your time and money. That’s why collecting so many is great.

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hasanahmad OP t1_jczi02e wrote

the general movie goer sees the score as the barometer, nothing else. outside this subreddit and other movie forums, thats the reality outside the bubble, RT score is what forms their opinion. the tool facilitates this this behavior, we know better, movie goers don't. Which is why many movie goers often have wrong impression and don;t see movies which are good and go see movies which are bad

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meowskywalker t1_jczk92q wrote

It doesn’t matter. None of this matters. Transformers movies got terrible terrible reviews and were all incredibly popular. All the Twilight movies got horrendous reviews, quite popular. People are gonna like what they like, and the idea that they can be convinced by a number on rottentomaotes is ridiculous.

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