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If you're looking at critics reviews, you have to be careful when you see a lot of good reviews for a movie. A 100% on rotten tomatoes is more likely to be a boring slog of art that only a movie critic who is desperate for something different can enjoy than something the average person wants to see.

My rule of thumb: if a movie you were excited for got amazing reviews then go see it. If are just browsing a list of top rated movies currently in theaters and you haven't heard of it, do more research to figure out why it's well rated. At least you'll know what you're in for if you do go see it.

It has nothing to do with intelligence, it's entirely personal taste.

How I feel about any recent Chris Nolan.

Solid analysis of rotten tomatoes scores. The comparison between critic/user reviews says so much more than the scores themselves.

trash like Freddie Got Fingered

FGF is a masterpiece of comedic cinema, sir.

Yeah, and even if both ratings are low, it can still be enjoyable to watch for you.

The only real way to know if a movie is good, is to watch it yourself.

Tbh if you watch a trailer you've already seen the good parts so just mark it off your list.

Streaming services and movie theaters hate this one weird trick!

I can't really comprehend this personally. If I like a movie enough for it to be my favourite then chances are I've already spent a lot of time thinking about it, otherwise it wouldn't be my favourite.

Same hapenned to me when i rewatched There will be blood. At the rewatch it isnt at all how i remember it, it turned out it was just about some asshole that worked his ass off to become a richer and bigger ashole. And also religion or something.

Unless you're reading the reviews to find silly shitposts

At the same time, people drastically conflate "good" with "entertaining". Most of my favorite movies are not "good"

It's all subjective. The only way a critic can be helpful is if you become accustomed to their tastes and how they communicate them. It's why Rotten Tomatoes CAN be a helpful tool but is so misunderstood as to be useless.

If a movie gets 10% on RT, but you're in the 10% that fucking love that thing then that score means nothing.

I mean, it's entirely subjective. I tend to trust audience scores more than critic scores personally.

Five Nights at Freddy's

I read the whole comment thread trying to figure out what fnaf meant...

Gotta agree with the critics on that one.

If you enjoyed that movie, I'm happy for you. But that was easily the worst movie I've ever seen.

I'm a FNAF fan, and as a movie its quality is that of a straight to DVD movie. It has major flaws that I could go into incredible length about, but the more I think about it, the more I like it as is. The lore of the games is campy, and all over the place, as well as cliché in many places. The series never took itself too seriously while managing to make goofy characters feel mildly threatening. The FNAF movie captures this campy B movie plot excellently.

Really, the major draw for me was that I had invested my emotions into a community that formed as a result of the creator embracing his fans and doing his best to give them what they wanted, even if he wasn't the best at it. The community never really cared that the lore was imperfect, they cared because they felt like they could invest themselves in the story because there was another game of uncovering the hidden story after they finished playing each game. It brought people together because everyone had their own takes on the story. It was super exciting to have each game show up because then you'd have more people with their own takes on the story and big personalities making videos having fun with a goofy game series.

Seeing the movie felt like a huge love letter to the whole experience. I wanted to see these goofy and campy machines on the big screen because they already occupied a space in my imagination. As a fan, I went in with the perfect level of expectation, I expected a campy B movie that would be fun to watch and not take too seriously, and its exactly what I got. In fact, there was a level of fan service in the film which made me absolutely delighted to watch it.

My peenus dont hort

5/5

I get what you're saying, but IMO a 2 hour movie is too low stakes to warrant spending more than a minute or two glancing at reviews, which is why RT and IMDB are nice, even if the summary score isn't totally reliable.

Am I interested in it from a quick synopsis or trailer?

Are the reviews generally at least mixed or better?

If the answer to both those is Yes, there's a good enough chance I'll enjoy it to give it a shot.

Counterpoint: Movie "Critics" are supposed to be the ones who judge movie on how well made it is rather than their personal taste. Roger Ebert disliked a lot of films but didn't deduct the scores because of it.

Funko critics on RT are not qualified to be critics.