• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    1 day ago

    God Awful Movies covered Boondock Saints a couple years back, and one of the hosts demanded to know who replaced the movie they loved in college with some intolerable horseshit.

    • Carl@sh.itjust.works
      121·
      2 days ago

      My friend won’t watch anything with a below 80% score. They have to be masterpieces.

  • SSTF@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 day ago

    I don’t believe I’ve ever let an RT score sway my decision to watch something. I sometimes forget RT exists until someone else brings it up.

    If RT had any sway on me I wouldn’t have watched and loved Arena (1989), American Ninja (1975), Screamers (1995), Chopping Mall (1986), or Dead Heat (1988) just to name a few excellent viewing experiences.

  • bugs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    I wouldn’t call myself a film buff but I’ve watched thousands of films and shows. My gauge is usually the metascores, with some exceptions. Knowing this, I generally watch films with a metacritic score over 55, and am usually whelmed. It’s also important to understand directors and their previous works, and styles so you know what to expect. I still prefer imdb’s ratings generally.

    • Mustakrakish@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      I tend to judge more on the plot summary. If it sounds interesting I’ll give it a watch. A good idea can get me imagining things even if the implementation isn’t that good.

  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
    35·
    2 days ago

    Except, since each vote toward good/rotten is binary, it really means that a high score is not “best” but is instead “least objectionable”

    • amorpheus@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days ago

      RT is a great vibe check. I don’t use movie ratings directly to decide what to watch, but to gauge whether a movie that already seems interesting is likely to be worth the time.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    202·
    2 days ago

    We recently watched a movie that audience and critics adored. It was god awful. I don’t trust those ratings (or any ratings) really.

  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    41·
    2 days ago

    It’s fucked up that RT and similar sites with their ratings are so important for so many filmgoers. I would guess it’s because film theatre tickets have become more expensive so people are trying to be as selective as possible with what films they spend their money on.

    So people listen to the “average”, go to the movies based on predigested opinions, and end up making their own filmgoing experiences, horizon and taste closer to the average as well. The risk in filmgoing is being minimised (which kind of mirrors the behaviour of the film industry so it’s not without reason that the audiences behave like that, I guess; but it still sucks).

    • SSTF@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 day ago

      Indeed. The RT scoring favors inoffensive, wide appeal over interesting but not-for-everyone movies.

      People act like it’s some kind of dunk when a movie/show they like gets high rating, despite the often useless nature of critics and/or audiences at large to reflect individual taste.

    • Karjalan@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 day ago

      I’ve had a few times where I’ll look at a random movie on some streaming service that I haven’t heard of before, trailer looks great, genre is right up my alley, I’ll watch it, it’s not great but I hope it gets better and then by the end I realise it’s bad.

      So I go see the RT score and it’s low to mid rated for both critics and viewers. So after a few of those I started our checking. For ones I haven’t heard of. Found it very useful so far

    • SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de
      11·
      3 hours ago

      Not understanding your hate, I looked at their list of movies.

      Must have been incredibly lucky, but I’ve seen only a few a24 movies and liked all of them.

      Here are the movies for reference:

      • under the skin (2013)
      • the rover (2014)
      • amy (2015)
      • the hole in the ground (2019)
      • midsommar (2019)
      • the elephant queen (2019 apple tv release)
      • Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
      • the whale (2022)
      • priscilla (2023)
      • civil war (2024)

      Now I get that psychological horror is not for everyone, but I mean if something like priscilla does not get under your skin, I don’t know…

  • andybytesEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    I see how you interpreted that. That is solid.

  • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    94·
    2 days ago

    I wouldn’t consider myself a film critic but there are times when I need to side with the critic score over the audience score. Examples include: The Last Jedi, The Rise of Skywalker, Men, The Monkey, Boondock Saints, Edit: punctuation

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      131·
      2 days ago

      I had no idea that critics liked The Last Jedi. I mean, so did I. But at least nice to know I’m not fuckin’ alone.

      Rise of Skywalker… These scores shock the hell out of me considering I’ve never heard anyone do anything other than complain about Rise of Skywalker

      • 0ops@lemm.ee
        4·
        2 days ago

        I wouldn’t go so far as saying that I liked The Last Jedi, but I do think that it’s far and away the best of the sequels and a ton of the common criticisms are bullshit. I don’t think I’ve ever had to defend a movie that I didn’t really care for as much as this one.

        Now Rise of Skywalker? That one is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, and when weighted by the talent and budget that went into it I think an argument can be made for the worst of modern cinema. It’s the only star wars movie I’ll never watch again. I could feel the lazy pettiness from the theater chair. Like at least the other franchise-disrespecting blockbuster matrix resurrections was self aware, Rise of Skywalker was earnestly weightless and cheap

        • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 day ago

          The sequels were all fanfiction. But they’re all distinct kinds of fanfiction.

          7 is written like the characters are also fans of the movies: Finn is shocked by hologram technology he’d see every day, people parrot lines that were once clever, the camera lingers on a broken astromech droid, et very cetera. The returning characters are living legends famed for their transformative effect on the whole galaxy but also haven’t changed one iota since we last saw them.

          8 is an anarchist deconstruction of Star Wars that somehow got turned into an actual Star Wars movie: a rebel soldier becomes disillusioned after her sister died for nothing, the good guy and bad guy agree the current conflict is a pointless sham, and details throughout scream that no mere organization could ever own the magic that belongs to all living beings. And then a surprise fourth act goes “whoops nevermind.”

          9 is a toddler telling a story: “and then… and then… but no he didn’t?.. and then…” It’s like a child learned about fakeout deaths yesterday and expects it to be equally shocking every single time. Then the big battle needed to involve every toy in the toybox, especially the horses, because spaceships can’t look up. At least in the end we got the Rey x Kylo connection it all built toward, and their kids are gonna be the most powerful nevermind.

  • warm@kbin.earth
    51·
    2 days ago

    No rating sites are good. There’s always people rating 10/10.

    • Grumpy@sh.itjust.works
      81·
      2 days ago

      In the big picture of things, that doesn’t matter. As long as sufficient number of people are voting, they too are part of the statistic norm. Every title will have some people voting 10s and 1s. And rating scores are only meaningful as relative values. So a title with avg score of 9 is probably better than a title with avg score of 6. Instead of 9 or 6 is objectively bad or good.