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It is important to understand what RT actually are rating here. It is not an aggregate of reviewers selections of best movies ever. Neither is it some aggregate
by goto11 8y ago
It is important to understand what RT actually are rating here. It is not an aggregate of reviewers selections of best movies ever. Neither is it some aggregate of how much reviewers liked a certain movie.
RT is more like a list of the movies which a lot of critics rated but fewest critics disliked. So you get popular and uncontroversial. These are good choices for movies to show on airplanes.
It is actually an interesting rating, as long as you understand what is being rated.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y ago> So you get popular and uncontroversial. I agree with you, but I don't know if that's the right way to describe them. Looking in the top 10 I can see, to name a few, Moonlight, BlacKkKlansman and Get Out, all items that SHOULD be discussed. I think these also include movies that have a social message that critics agree need to be discussed.
- goto11 8y agoBy "uncontroversial" I mean there is broad agreement among critics that this movie is worth watching. This does not necessarily mean the subject matter of the movie is uncontroversial.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoAh, ok. In that cause I gotcha. I just didn't want it to sound like these films were somehow safe when it came to subject matter.
- goto11 8y agoNo, they are just safe enough to not offend critics.
- owldimoon 8y agoWhich is a line that changes over time, I might add! It's interesting to think about how each movie on that list got there in a way that's relative to the era it was produced in. You could choose a cutoff, sort by date, and have a pretty neat timeline of what's considered "safe".