Does the rotten tomato score affect whether you will see

what is their review system?

If every reviewer rated a certain movie as barely watchable it would get a 100% on RT.  

not for movies I'm already interested in, bad reviews won't matter

for movies not on my radar getting raves i definitely be more likely to check it out

Of course not, as I have a mind of my own and make my own choices.

Depends.

If it is something I am hugely anticipating then I will see it regardless of critic ratings (unless it gets under a 20%) but if it is something I am on the fence about seeing then the tomato score does affect whether I see it or not.

Ironically I was waiting for the reviews of Spider-Man: Homecoming to decide whether to see it or not and I ended up hatng it.

In the case of Suicide Squad I should have listened to the critics.

That is the most ridiculous exaggeration I have ever seen.

Barely watchable means a movie is almost terrible. Maybe you worded it wrong.

I do get what you mean though. Haywire has a 79% or something but yet it only has like a 6.3/10 average rating.

Anyway, they have the average critic rating part which is actually accurate

A movie has to get a 60 or better on a scale of 100 to be fresh.  On a A-F scale that would be a D.  On a 4 star system that would be 2 & a 1/2 stars at best. So if 100% of critics rated a movie a D it would still get 100%.   

poelzig



That whole A-F scale (and the like) is flawed if you ask me as it does not make broad use of the rating scale as i tend to look at a 1 through 10 scale (which is exactly the same as a 5 star scale that uses half ratings(i.e. for example 3.5/5 star)) with 5/10 being middle-of-the-road/average and then scales up and down fairly evenly from there as this is the best setup if you ask me(which i suspect is very similar to people who use that 1-10 scale properly). i don't like the 4 star scale as it's too limited as the 5 star scale with halves is the best since it's exactly like IMDb's 1 through 10 scale. with the 4 star there are going to be too many movies bunched together even though some are clearly higher than others as it just does not convert over well to IMDb's 1-10 (or the 5 star system with halves) as you can see below (first numbers are the 4 star scale(with half ratings), after the "=" sign is the IMDb equivalent)...

4/4 = 10/10
3.5/4 = 8.75/10
3/4 = 7.5/10
2.5/4 = 6.25/10
2/4 = 5/10
1.5/4 = 3.75/10
1/4 = 2.5/10

so as you can see it's just too limited and does not convey what i feel about movies nearly as well as a 1-10 scale or a 5 star scale with halves. so i feel the 1 through 4 star scale is only for people who don't really get into the details of rating movies in relation to one another as i feel only the most enjoyable movies should have a 10/10 and the further it gets away from that the lower the rating as i don't bother to rate movies based on genres or anything of that sort as it's always about overall enjoyment as this way when someone see's your ratings they can tell what you truly think of a movie vs if you did something outside of that basic enjoyment based rating system.

also, that "60 or better on a scale of 100 to be fresh" sounds about right if you ask me as assuming people have a properly made 1 through 10 rating scale that means 6/10 or higher is positive and anything lower (basically a 5/10) is a negative score. I consider a 6 or higher positive and a 5 or lower as a negative score (although 5/10 is not bad, just average and average is ultimately a Thumbs Down) and have for years now as i used to have a 7 or higher as positive and a 6 or lower as negative but after using it for a while i found that was just too restricted and forced me to load a bunch of movies onto a 7/10 area even though some where clearly better than others which is why once i shifted back to a 6 as a positive everything worked much better and conveys things to people better on what my overall feeling is of a movie.

but i guess if i had to really simply things with the 1 through 4 star rating scale with NO half ratings i would probably word it like this...

4/4 = top notch
3/4 = quality
2/4 = average
1/4 = crap

moviemouth



while not specifically talking about that movie... i tend to give a bit more weight to IMDb averages over other sites simply because IMDb is used by a wider range of people. so hopefully that can give a better general idea of what a lot of people think of it.

p.s. for the record... i gave Haywire a 6/10 (a mild Thumbs Up).



personally i liked Suicide Squad as i feel it's mostly carried by Will Smith/Margot Robbie. but i have only seen it once so far but plan on re-watching it to make sure it holds up. but assuming it holds up that makes it above most super hero movies pretty easily for me simply because there are not many super hero movies that have any re-watch value as, like i always say, a movies real worth is whether it's a movie you want to re-watch from time-to-time as the years pass or not.

Spider-Man on the other hand... looks fairly weak as it almost seems like they got Robert Downey Jr in there just to help ensure more people to see the movie. but in all honesty... i never cared for the Spider-Man character as he's just not all that interesting as i know this because i have seen all three Tobey Maguire movies along with the 2012 movie and in the end they are all forgettable.

Nope, because as you said, it is bull. As poelzig pointed out, their way of assigning "fresh" and "rotten" is just ridiculous.