Enjoy the Best, Not the Latest, Media

Post by alexilliamson » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 7:03 PM UTC

overtonwhy wrote: post #115

alexilliamson wrote: post #39

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This is why I used to love Rotten Tomatoes: between the audience score, the critic score, and the top critic score, you get three telling data points about what sort of person us likely to enjoy the movie. I have read a lot less film criticism since Roger Ebert died though. It seems like recently anything remotely enjoyable on rotten tomatoes gets above 90.

I stopped loving Rotten Tomatoes after it was purchased by Comcast/Universal Studios and Time Warner/Warner Bros Studios.

Post by conception » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 3:15 AM UTC

alexilliamson wrote: post #36

conception wrote: post #29

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Your mention of taste is interesting as https://www.criticker.com engine basically recommends movies based on other people who have liked and disliked the same movies as you liked other films and it’s really effective!

This is awesome will check out later. Is this site good for smaller/older/more obscure recommendations?

Post by barbs » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 8:04 AM UTC

conception wrote: post #29

tallies wrote: post #26

As someone who apparently frequents much more pretentious online film circles than OP, the idea that the highest rated films and shows on IMDB represent the "best" of the mediums is kinda silly. The article uses Star Trek (2009) as its example of a mediocre film. Its IMDB rating is 7.9/10 from over 500k votes over 11 years -- surely this would place the film squarely in the "tried and tested" category. If I look on s…

Your mention of taste is interesting as https://www.criticker.com engine basically recommends movies based on other people who have liked and disliked the same movies as you liked other films and it’s really effective!