I really like The Postman, but I was surprised it had fairly negative reviews
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It never affects my enjoyment of a thing. But if I'm already questioning whether or not I want to continue, that rating makes a difference.
IGN 6/10 review for Mouse: PI
I don't think I have ever once looked at the ratings score on a film.
Which is weird, because I'm active on rateyourmusic and do put stock in those ratings, and I also pretty religiously check customer reviews on Steam for games.
But for whatever reason, I couldn't care less what people think in terms of film. π€·
I saw "The Bride" in theaters a few months ago and the fact that that movie ISN'T a 0 on imdb invalidates the whole concept of critic reviews for me. Worst movie I have ever seen (and I've seen "The Room" twice)
Oh, hi Mark
Imbd giving 28 years later 7.3/10 is crazy
Do people really trust ratings for things? It seems like we are so far removed from those number meaning anything useful I've long been ignoring them.
Do people really trust ratings for things?
It's generally in the ballpark. Universally panned films rank lower than universally loved films. Cult classics tend to score better than average but rarely break into the 8-9 out of 10 range. It's good to check the "Critics Score" against the "Popular Score", as a big spread tends to say something about the nature of the film (High C:P suggests Oscar Bait, low C:P suggests it's either very niche or very crass or very ideological).
The scores contain useful information about the nature and quality of the film. They just don't tell you whether you will like the film.
I'll also throw in that I've heard more than a few movie reviews that have changed my opinion on a movie I've already seen (typically one I've seen forever ago that I just remember fondly or disparagingly). Return of the Jedi was my favorite Star Wars movie for years, but I've definitely come around on it being the worst of the OT. At the same time, my opinion of The Transformers Movie came up quite a bit after hearing a few reviews raving about the art design, the musical score, and the voice acting. Same with Princess Bride, which I'd mentally written off as some stupid low-budget made-for-TV schlock until I got into college and had friends screening it enthusiastically.
If you're just cruising for "decent movie to end the weekend" on, surfing through the Criterion Collection will yield a bunch of gems.
Not IMDB, but Rotten Tomatoes is dead to me after their score for Boondock Saints was 26% despite a user rating of 91%.
Maybe it's not a cinematic masterpiece, but it's a solidly fun movie.
I think one of the reasons the critics came at it so harshly was that it was sort of this meme-movie. Lots of quotable lines. Lots of memorable scenes. But the overarching story kinda sucked. The villains were silly and lame. The heroes were uninspired. The movie parked itself on Irish Dude-Bro demographics and just kinda catapulted itself into cult classic material by casting Willem Dafoe a bit before he went mainstream.
I think it's better than a 26%. But not all that much better.
I love to chase my toddler around and say βYouβre going nowhere! Where you goinβ? nowhere!β Before lightly bodyslamming him. Now he just runs around yelling, βIβm not going anywhereβ
I actually just showed my partner the first movie a few weeks ago, somehow she had never heard of it but I was shocked at the scores on imdb.
For me, fan score is a separate axis (how much fun is the film).
Is it just me, or is IMDB becoming shittier and shittier?
They recently started demanding an account to read user reviews.
Well it is owned by Amazon
Ah, now it all makes sense to me.
TMDb and NeoDB.social are the hot alternatives.
Sad that IMDB now hide the user opinions behind their login screen. A score alone isn't helpful at all.
i stopped thinking imdb or rating for entertainment as "how good it is" but rather "the odds of me liking it" i've seen plenty 5 or 6 imdb but i absolutely love it. and 9s as meh.
Exactly. Critics are only useful if your opinions are similar to the critics.
Remember, even in recent years movies have been review-bombed for being "woke", for instance, with hordes of people upset about things that are not important to the movie, attempting to destroy the reputation of the movie rather than evaluate it fairly on its own merits.
I was just watching facts behind "Robin Hood men in tights", and apparently Siskel gave it half a star, which is absolutely insane. It's no blazing saddles, but it's one of the better Mel Brooks movies
So yeah, review scores are basically a good way to decide whether you should go to the theaters and watch it or wait till it's on streaming. But outside of that, it's not a good indicator of whether or not you're going to enjoy the show.
Oh wait. The previous commenter didn't specify if they're talking about the critics score or the general public one.
Personally I find I usually agree with the public opinion of movies on imdb, and most things below a 6 I tend to not enjoy. Franchises with hardcore fans are a notorious exception to scores being reliable because they often overhype them (such as Star Wars or Marvel etc). Otherwise the score system works, more or less.
The critics' score is absolutely meaningless to me. Might as well be a random number for all I care
I think about how I haven't reviewed a movie on imdb/rotten tomatoes in years. If you haven't either, then don't trust the user reviews.
unironically, I loved the mario bros movie from the 90s. It's rated REALLY low on imdb, but I loved that film.
It's one of those movies that is a horrible part of its franchise but wouldn't be so bad just standing on its own. The only thing it really had to do with Mario Bros was it used character names and some items from the games. It was a wtf for fans but if you ignored that part, it was ok on its own.
I think similarly of SW ep 8. It's an absolute dogshit Star Wars movie but if Rian had instead made up like his own space balls universe except not really funny, and did the same movie there, it wouldn't have been bad. But instead it made me stop caring so much about Star Wars. Which isn't really a bad thing tbh, though probably not what Disney had in mind when they bought the franchise.
I'll be the contrarian and say IMDb ratings are pretty accurate for me. The two exceptions are super inflated Cinemaβ’ ratings and middling ratings for comedies. A 9.3/10 silent era movie gets too much credit for having functional lighting while a 6/10 comedy gets panned for its shallow character development.
I use them by genre. A drama or action movie needs a very high score for my tastes.
Comedies usually a 6 or 7 is going to be good for me and a very high score usually means it's a dramery.
Horror movies with very high scores are usually mainstream over produced like the conjuring. Good horror movies usually are 6-7 like the witch or hededitary
And also, if a movie has a very high meta critic but a very low user rating it usually means the movie will be weird af
I learned in my youth not to read reviews of things I like. It's unpleasant and pointless to read someone savaging your favorite albums or books.
(More critical analysis can be fine, but regular Internet reviews are not so worthwhile)
Really? I find the opposite problem. Ratings are inflated and even utter trash on IMDB is 6 or 7 out of 10.
I think part of the problem is that the scale is not used properly. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would consider 5 to be average. Most movies seen are average. Average is well worth watching. 5 is a decent rating as far as I am concerned. I'll even watch a 4 or a 3 if someone tells me that some aspect of the movie was worthwhile. But most people seem to treat the scale as if they only are willing to watch 8 and above, and that anything below a 7 is trash.
It would be much better if there was a site to input your ratings and for it to match you to users and critics similar to your taste. I used to use Last.FM like this for music but haven't found anything similar for movies or TV. Ratings alone are useless because critics and users alike will swing all over the scale for the same movie. Tastes need to match.
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Fuck ratings and reviews. I've watched terribly rated movies that are gold, and award winning films that are absolute dumpster fire.
Too many times other people insist on inserting their opinion when it is not requested. A lot will also just go with the tide as well. If others are giving good reviews, then they will do the same.
I prefer to read a summary of the plot and give it a watch to form my own opinion.
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