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Post by kevin on Jul 15, 2017 13:18:27 GMT
I check the ratings, but unless the ratings are extreme (like +90% or less than 20%) it doesn't stop me from seeing a movie I really want to watch. A much more accurate way to check if you will like a movie is www.criticker.com/. It takes some time, because you have to score every movie you've seen (or as many as possible) on a scale from 0 - 100. If you use a 1 - 10 scale you can just use 10, 20, 30 etc. After you've rated enough movies the site predicts the rating for movies you haven't seen based on the ratings other people gave that have a very similar taste in movies as you have (based on your previous ratings). It's almost scary sometimes how close it gets to the grade I would give a movie. I still think the best way is just to watch the movie and then have an opinion about it, but if you want to check wheter you'll probably like a movie I really recommend Criticker.
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Post by seahawksraawk00 on Jul 15, 2017 14:10:29 GMT
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. You can't trust the reviews when it comes to MCU movies because the critics give positive reviews to every MCU movie no matter how crappy the movie is. They see that "Marvel Studios" logo screen at the beginning and they automatically give it a positive review without even watching the rest of the movie. If Suicide Squad had a "Marvel Studios" logo screen at the beginning, the critics would've said that Suicide Squad is the greatest comic-book movie ever made.
Spider-Man: Homecoming was just another over-rated and crappy MCU movie. Did the SMH writers actually think that pushing together the 2 split halves of the ferry boat would stop the boat from sinking?
And why did Iron Man just fly away after pushing the 2 split halves of the ferry boat together, without even checking if any of the passengers might be injured and need to be air-lifted to a hospital?
And why were there cars on the Staten Island Ferry? Don't the SMH writers know that cars haven't been allowed on the Staten Island Ferry after 9/11?
Also, the absurdity of the Washington Monument scene. The elevator of the Washington Monument gets blown up by a bomb that the fat kid had. DHS would've interrogated the fat kid about where he got the bomb and the fat kid would've been held in custody until he gave up Peter as the guy who gave him the bomb.
Then DHS would've investigated Peter and would've been suspicious as to why Peter at the last minute decided to re-join the Academic Decathlon after quitting the team earlier and travel with the team to Washington, D.C. only to skip out on the Decathlon competition and the skip out on the team's trip to the Washington Monument on the same day that his best friend blows up an elevator in the Washington Monument using a bomb that Peter gave him. And DHS would've gotten a warrant to search Aunt May's apartment.
Just more bad writing, as is usually the case in MCU movies.
So RottenTomatos is suddenly not relevant anymore??? Hypocrite much, considering you kept going on how Wonder Woman will be better reviewed than Spider-Man.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 15:52:05 GMT
Ya I agree.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 15:57:07 GMT
The only time I look up a film is if I never heard of it before or any of the actors, etc. I'll bring it up on IMDb, take a quick glance at the rating, and then skim the reviews, focusing solely on comments about how low budget or amateurish it might be. I'm not actually trying to gain info about whether other people liked it. I typically don't like really low-budget/amateurish stuff. So I'm just trying to avoid that. then you would not like avatar
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Post by spooner5020 on Jul 15, 2017 16:24:23 GMT
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. You can't trust the reviews when it comes to MCU movies because the critics give positive reviews to every MCU movie no matter how crappy the movie is. They see that "Marvel Studios" logo screen at the beginning and they automatically give it a positive review without even watching the rest of the movie. If Suicide Squad had a "Marvel Studios" logo screen at the beginning, the critics would've said that Suicide Squad is the greatest comic-book movie ever made.
Spider-Man: Homecoming was just another over-rated and crappy MCU movie. Did the SMH writers actually think that pushing together the 2 split halves of the ferry boat would stop the boat from sinking?
And why did Iron Man just fly away after pushing the 2 split halves of the ferry boat together, without even checking if any of the passengers might be injured and need to be air-lifted to a hospital?
And why were there cars on the Staten Island Ferry? Don't the SMH writers know that cars haven't been allowed on the Staten Island Ferry after 9/11?
Also, the absurdity of the Washington Monument scene. The elevator of the Washington Monument gets blown up by a bomb that the fat kid had. DHS would've interrogated the fat kid about where he got the bomb and the fat kid would've been held in custody until he gave up Peter as the guy who gave him the bomb.
Then DHS would've investigated Peter and would've been suspicious as to why Peter at the last minute decided to re-join the Academic Decathlon after quitting the team earlier and travel with the team to Washington, D.C. only to skip out on the Decathlon competition and the skip out on the team's trip to the Washington Monument on the same day that his best friend blows up an elevator in the Washington Monument using a bomb that Peter gave him. And DHS would've gotten a warrant to search Aunt May's apartment.
Just more bad writing, as is usually the case in MCU movies.
Omg dude just shut up!!'
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Post by Terrapin Station on Jul 15, 2017 17:40:45 GMT
The only time I look up a film is if I never heard of it before or any of the actors, etc. I'll bring it up on IMDb, take a quick glance at the rating, and then skim the reviews, focusing solely on comments about how low budget or amateurish it might be. I'm not actually trying to gain info about whether other people liked it. I typically don't like really low-budget/amateurish stuff. So I'm just trying to avoid that. then you would not like avatar Yeah, that's real low budget.
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Post by outrider127 on Jul 15, 2017 18:15:57 GMT
A film or not? Seriously though, their review system is bull in my opinion. It's bull. No,the RT score never affects my decision--even though I always check anyway
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Post by fangirl1975 on Jul 15, 2017 18:19:32 GMT
Bad reviews don't necessarily stop me from seeing a movie. However, they do lower my expectations of it.
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 15, 2017 21:03:28 GMT
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%. That is not true in movie rating terms and you are only referring to the percentage number. 50% just means that 50% of the critics like the movie and that isn't that bad of a thing. A 6-6.9/10 average = 2.5 stars or there about. Movie ratings don't work like school grades.
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Post by Roberto on Jul 16, 2017 20:36:46 GMT
Of course not, as I have a mind of my own and make my own choices. Let me ask you this then. If it was a movie you only were kind of interested in seeing at the cinema and it got a 10% on RT would you see it or not? Well I wouldn't be considering seeing a movie in the cinema that I was only kind of interested in seeing. Even ones I am interesting in seeing isn't really enough these days, due to all the disappointments as of late.
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Post by brownstones on Jul 16, 2017 20:43:58 GMT
not really? i mean maybe if i was on the fence, but even then i'd still try and check the film out at some point.
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