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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 fi

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 low RT scores from professional critics. In short, it's impossible to trust RT's ratings of independent films, as they just can't all be that good, or its ratings of big budget films, as they can't all be that bad. If a movie looks good to you, go see it - whether or not RT tells you to.

wodenokoto 11y ago
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/ 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 know any other.
- Udik 11y ago
  Try http://www.criticker.com http://www.criticker.com I've been using it for years, it's pretty good.
ownagefool 11y ago
Unless you know, you're also a tad pretentious, just roll with the audience scores. Audiences don't care about art. It's more difficult to buy the audience and you can't really intimidate them into giving you good reviews. The audience will nuke those independent films because they don't care that it was an amazing achievement from a small studio. The audience will likely tell you the truth. When it comes to PC gaming, it's been fairly well established for a long time that you can't really trust most of the reviewers. They're either bought and paid for, intimidated or not giving enough time to evaluate. I've been relying on user scores for a long time and whilst I doubt this is perfect, I'm happy with my decision. Example: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/grand-theft-auto-v http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/grand-theft-auto-v

wodenokoto 11y ago

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/ 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 know any other.

Udik 11y ago
Try http://www.criticker.com http://www.criticker.com I've been using it for years, it's pretty good.

ownagefool 11y ago

Unless you know, you're also a tad pretentious, just roll with the audience scores. Audiences don't care about art. It's more difficult to buy the audience and you can't really intimidate them into giving you good reviews. The audience will nuke those independent films because they don't care that it was an amazing achievement from a small studio. The audience will likely tell you the truth. When it comes to PC gaming, it's been fairly well established for a long time that you can't really trust most of the reviewers. They're either bought and paid for, intimidated or not giving enough time to evaluate. I've been relying on user scores for a long time and whilst I doubt this is perfect, I'm happy with my decision. Example: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/grand-theft-auto-v http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/grand-theft-auto-v