Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings

Post by Udik » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 10:05 AM UTC

wodenokoto wrote: post #120

downandout wrote: post #114

While I generally agree with the sentiment of this article, Rotten Tomatoes and its ilk have problems of their own. Virtually every small-budget independent film on the site winds up with a very high rating, likely thanks to the big-budget hating, pretentious film critics whose reviews it compiles and summarizes. Likely for the same reason, some larger budget films that receive high RT scores from audiences receive l…

Yeah, the thing that is really important about reviews, is that you as a reader knows the reviewer and their taste. So we really need something similar to Netflix rating system, where the rating displayed to you is generated from users with similar taste who have already seen the movie. http://tastekid.com/ let's you search for movies you might like based on movies you do like. It's not quite the same, but I don't kn…

Post by giblet » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 10:15 AM UTC

k__ wrote: post #119

My experience has shown that the only movies worth looking at are rated > 7/10 anything below is mostly crap. But this only works for movies that are mainstream BUT not too real blockbusters. Because stuff like the fast and the furious or transformers gets good ratings anyways. But I use such ratings only to get something light on a boring evening. Mostly I watch ArtHaus stuff and don't look at those ratings.

Post by throwaway7767 » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 10:21 AM UTC

k__ wrote: post #119

My experience has shown that the only movies worth looking at are rated > 7/10 anything below is mostly crap. But this only works for movies that are mainstream BUT not too real blockbusters. Because stuff like the fast and the furious or transformers gets good ratings anyways. But I use such ratings only to get something light on a boring evening. Mostly I watch ArtHaus stuff and don't look at those ratings.

Post by thenomad » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 10:34 AM UTC

eevilspock wrote: post #113

bostik wrote: post #63

Oh wow, that's rich. Quoting from the article: Sites like Rotten Tomatoes that aggregate movie reviews into one overall rating are being blamed for poor opening weekends. The best part is that the quote above even provides a link to the reference they are using for the made statement.[0] In effect, the studios are complaining that news of the films' crappiness are spreading too fast . Let that sink in. The studios co…

> When a bunch of reviews can undo the effects of a massive, weeks or months long marketing push, I'd say it's time to rethink your product strategy. Whenever a debate about advertising pops up on HN, many people defend it as the necessary way for consumers to find out about good products. Healthy free markets depend on informed consumers, but to think that advertising results in informed consumers makes little sense…

Post by 4ad » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 10:42 AM UTC

eridius wrote: post #40

abruzzi wrote: post #32

I never trust any online reviews, especially aggregate reviews, because I have never found any to hew remotely closely to my taste (the best example is on RT, the worst movie I've seen in the last two decades is rated 95% fresh). The only approach I've found that works is to pick a professional reviewer that is marginally close to my taste, read a lot of their reviews, so I know where I tend to agree and where I disa…

I'm curious, what was the 95% fresh movie that you thought was the worst movie in 2 decades?