Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical Analysis
Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical Analysis
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Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical Analysis
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"After five days of "Certified Fresh" movie propaganda, I began to grow suspicious. If every movie is un-rotten, then one of two things must be true:
Humanity Has Stopped Producing Bad Art
Rotten Tomatoes Has Changed"
- Only "Fresh" movies advertise their rating.
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I don't use it to find good movies, but I will filter out bad movies with it. I only consider the value when it is low.
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No
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I never found them to be reliable indicators of whether or not I will enjoy a movie. Not ever.
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Is TMDB the best alternative out there?
Are there any fediverse alternatives?
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Why repost this when it was already on !movies@piefed.social ? https://lemmy.world/post/34735983
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Because Lemmy.world is a major instance. Never heard of piefed before today
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The Piefed.social community has 2.58k monthly active users
The LW version has 2k.
It's probably time for another post on !newcommunities@lemmy.world
If you are also interested in television, !television@piefed.social
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In a nutshell: 1) Fandango buys rotten tomatoes in 2016, 2) they expand/widen the critic reviewer pool to include nobody bloggers, and then 3) movie studios court/bribe small fish reviewers to inflate their scores so they can get the fresh rating as a marketing point for their latest flick.
Nice to finally have this all spelled out. I've been burned several times over the last few years watching movies with like 79% ratings on RT that I thought sucked. Now I know why.
What's the alternative? IMDB is owned by Amazon and has a super dumb recency bias. I use Letterboxd and that might be the best at the moment. But the user base there is smaller and sometimes it feels like the only people reviewing movies are the select few who went out of their way to watch it so they are inherently skewed to like it.
The binary of fresh/not fresh has always been problematic too. It takes away nuance and rewards palatable mass market movies that most people like but that aren't polarizing enough to be interesting.
But those are easy enough to filter yourself just by knowing what the movie is about.
There is still the audience score and the top critics score. This will need to be looked at specifically but shouldn't have the same issues as the overall ranking. If that section is useless except for marketing just ignore it
This is why I don't go to aggregate sites like this for reviews. I only ever listen to opinions from youtubers I've found online who have similar likes and dislikes as myself. Now I've got a tight cluster of people who can help me get a good gage on if I'll like something or not. It isn't perfect, but it works.