Post by moviemouth on Jun 3, 2017 21:07:51 GMT
There is a point.
RT has helped me avoid many bad movies and has gotten me to give good movies a chance that I wasn't very interested in before hand. I largely rely on RT to guide me as to what movies to watch and it usually works out in my favor. Don't take this to mean I don't watch movies that get bad ratings, I just don't go see them at the theater unless they are movies I am super excited for. I stupidly ignored the critics regarding Suicide Squad.
I should have listened to the critics for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I thought it looked like fun but boy was I wrong.
On the flip side I would have never went to see Moonlight or Lion at the theater if not for the very positive reviews. I also wouldn't have been in such a hurry to see Ex Machina at the theater. I didn't think the trailer made it look very appealing but it ended up being very good.
Of course there are many movies I dislike that got very good reviews and many movies I like that got bad reviews but RT is a helpful guide.
From experience I trust critics more than random people on imdb, but they essentially serve the same purpose. Everyone on imdb just fancies themselves an unpaid critic anyway. If professional critics didn't exist than Hollywood would just blame imdb for the reason their crappy movies don't do well at the BO. The actual imdb ratings are often unreliable on initial release because almost every big budget movie starts out with an 8/10 or higher.