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Dunkirk Spoilers: I feel like Rotten Tomato doesn't work all the time. I watched Dunkirk, excited from the 93% on RT, and I walked out and felt disappointed. Li
by omot 9y ago
Dunkirk Spoilers: I feel like Rotten Tomato doesn't work all the time. I watched Dunkirk, excited from the 93% on RT, and I walked out and felt disappointed. Like I get the cinematography was great, the story structure is amazing, everything a critic should be looking for was all there, but did I enjoy it? No. I thought it was boring. The movie didn't do anything to foster the relation of characters to the audience. I frankly didn't care about any of them, maybe except the Captain that stayed behind to help the French. I personally thought this was Nolan's weakest movie, although the RT score would suggest otherwise: Inception - 86%, Interstellar - 71% both of which I enjoyed way more than Dunkirk.
I think the audience score also on RT is more telling:
Inception - 91%
Interstellar - 85%
Dunkirk - 82%
We could also take movies that people mentioned on this thread:
The Dark Tower - RT: 16%, AS: 54%
Baby Driver - RT: 93%, AS: 89%
Baywatch - RT: 18%, AS: 60%
I also don't trust critics on the basis of people like Armond White, and since many of them do this for a living, a lot of critics can be bought.
I think what I'm trying to say is that Rotten Tomato is actually inaccurate metric for how enjoyable the movie actually is, and consumers are being misguided.
I also think theres an inherent misunderstanding of the RT score. People look at the score and think this is the quality of the movie, when in reality I think of it as a probability that I would like the movie. A score of 50% doesn't mean the movie has a failing grade, it's that when 100 critics viewed it half the critics enjoyed it and the other half didn't, so there's probably a 50% chance that I'll enjoy the movie.
- imaginenore 9y agoI can't believe Wonder Woman got 92%. It was one of the worst superhero movies I have ever seen. The dumbest story and the plot, the dumbest dialogue, subpar action and CGI, very mediocre acting. There are a few okay jokes in it, I admit, but that's about it. Same with John Wick: Chapter 2. 90%, dumb as a bag of bricks.
- humanrebar 9y agoYou have to take 15-20% off for issue movies. Wonder Woman ended up being a stealth one. John Wick is respected as a "craft" movie because of its stuntwork and fight choreography. Same as Dunkirk and The Revenant, but those were appreciated on cinematography, etc. So, yes, movies loved for their craftsmanship do tend to outperform the quality of their storytelling.
- mcphage 9y ago> I can't believe Wonder Woman got 92%. It was one of the worst superhero movies I have ever seen. Not even having seen Wonder Woman, I can easily believe the 92% score—plenty of people I know who saw it, really loved it. If I saw it and didn't like it, maybe I would be surprised that so many of my friends liked it, but I still wouldn't be surprised that it got a high rating, because they did.
- seanwilson 9y ago> I think the audience score also on RT is more telling: Inception - 91% Interstellar - 85% Dunkirk - 82% This is like the arguments you get with computer game scores being out of 100% or out of 5, or when you try to compare percentages (e.g. this game got 95% which means it's better than this game which got 93%). Things like this are so subjective you really should only be looking at whether most people thought it was bad, good or great, plus if it's in a genre you like. Someone might love Inception but just not like Interstellar because they don't like sci-fi.
- omot 9y agoI address this at the end: > I also think theres an inherent misunderstanding of the RT score. People look at the score and think this is the quality of the movie, when in reality I think of it as a probability that I would like the movie. A score of 50% doesn't mean the movie has a failing grade, it's that when 100 critics viewed it half the critics enjoyed it and the other half didn't, so there's probably a 50% chance that I'll enjoy the movie.