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Post by janntosh on Nov 18, 2020 7:21:23 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 18, 2020 7:49:21 GMT
What can you expect with this Marxist downsizing multicultural nonsense.
In the 1960s and 70s there were perhaps 100 or more directors of horror films--many coming from Europe. Now we are to believe one black guy is all that makes the cut in the West? They deliberately suppress competition and promotion of artists.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Nov 18, 2020 8:00:34 GMT
I didnt like it.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 18, 2020 8:17:55 GMT
Let's not be hasty.
A Quiet Place is #3 and that is directed by a white guy and is also less interesting, less creepy, less well-made and less creative than Us or Get Out imo.
There are a bunch of placements that seem ridiculous on this list and that has to do with the unfair way that RT ranks movies.
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Post by darkpast on Nov 18, 2020 8:23:46 GMT
trash movie
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Nov 18, 2020 8:45:32 GMT
I'm so upset right now. Don't know how I'll cope.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 18, 2020 8:52:50 GMT
Never seen Us (2019) so i don`t know if its good or bad, but why would anybody take rotten tomatoes seriously ?
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Post by Xcalatë on Nov 18, 2020 10:12:05 GMT
What a load of pathetic nonsense lol!
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Post by seahawksraawk00 on Nov 18, 2020 10:31:22 GMT
It's upsetting that JC's The Thing isn't even in the top 20.
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Post by Ransom on Nov 18, 2020 11:22:25 GMT
Let's not be hasty. A Quiet Place is #3 and that is directed by a white guy and is also less interesting, less creepy, less well-made and less creative than Us or Get Out imo. There are a bunch of placements that seem ridiculous on this list and that has to do with the unfair way that RT ranks movies. The Quiet Place had a child killed in the first few seconds sure the woman was stupid for still becoming pregnant again during an alien invasion but even so it's still better than Get out and the Us movie by far. Flesh eating kid killing monsters are always an easy winner anyway.
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Post by Winter_King on Nov 18, 2020 11:57:27 GMT
How so? The Tomato meter only mentions the quantity of positive reviews.
For example Us has a rating of 7.9
Alien has a rating of 9.1
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Nov 18, 2020 13:24:43 GMT
Why would a review aggregator site matter?
It's just math and OP should just write each reviewer
In any event...Great "Pick!"
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Post by shannondegroot on Nov 18, 2020 13:35:16 GMT
It's probably Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974).
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Post by kevin on Nov 18, 2020 14:04:30 GMT
I liked both Us and Get Out (Us was like a 6/10 or 7/10 to me but I especially loved Get Out which is one of my favorite horror movies of the 2010s), but this is a prime example as to why the tomatometer is a horrible way to rank movies based on their critical reception. It only takes into account what percentage of people liked the movie (adjusted for the number of reviews with a bayesian average). Not that I care that much about the average critical opinion, your own opinion is the one that counts for you, but the average rating is a way better indicator of 'critical reception' than the tomatometer. But for some reason Rotten Tomatoes keeps pushing it further to the back to the point that it doesn't even directly show up anymore when you click on a movie. The tomatometer is a good measure of how 'likeable' a movie is. And it that case I can definitely see why f.e. Get Out would rank very high, I haven't spoken to anyone who outright disliked the movie. But if you want a list that looks more like the top 100 critics lists or something like that than the average rating is way better. In the end I don't really care that much about it, especially compared to ~10 years ago when I started to really get into movies. Rotten tomatoes, metacritic etc. are all great tools. But in the end it's your own opinion and, when discussing movies with someone else, also the opinion of that other person of course that really matter. It's also good to keep in mind that there is no 'objective quality' to art. There can be arguments that there is some level of objectivity to what we consider basic and good filmmaking techniques, but review aggregators don't give a definitive answer on how good a movie is. No one can and it has started countless unnecessary and pointless discussions on the internet over the years. It's way more fun to explain why you like/dislike a movie, instead of trying to prove movie A is better than movie B in a cinemasins-like manner. If a person instead of a review aggregator would say that Us is their favorite horror movie than that is a perfectly fine opinion and could lead to a very interesting discussion on the movie depending on whether you agree or disagree with that person, which is in the end what movie forums like this one are all about.
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Post by spooner5020 on Nov 18, 2020 16:39:47 GMT
US sucked in my opinion. Get Out was pretty good, but I don’t know what kind of message Us was trying to say, but I didn’t get it. Also I thought RT was always pretty bias?
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Nov 18, 2020 17:06:59 GMT
Not a fan of Rotten Tomatoes. After all these years, I still don't understand how their ratings work. Based on percentage of positive reviews? But what constitutes a positive review? Is it a binary choice? Do they consider that a review is either positive or negative? That is the impression I get, but it is not how reviews work. I would say that most reviews for most movies are neither entirely positive nor entirely negative.
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Post by Marv on Nov 18, 2020 18:02:46 GMT
Lol scores are adjusted? So what's the percentage? I thought the percentage was already adjusting things.
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Post by johnspartan on Nov 18, 2020 20:34:57 GMT
RT is a political propaganda site that rigs movie scores.
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Post by Vits on Nov 18, 2020 20:48:53 GMT
How so? The Tomato meter only mentions the quantity of positive reviews. For example Us has a rating of 7.9 Alien has a rating of 9.1 I was just about to say that. It's as if the O.P. skipped the explanation that's below the headline but above the list itself. what constitutes a positive review? Anything over a 5/10 (or its equivalent if the critic uses a different system).
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Post by jonesjxd on Nov 19, 2020 11:53:43 GMT
Your link doesn't work but it goes to show people still don't understand what Rotten Tomatoes is.
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