Rotten Tomatoes

[ER]

I am not devoted to too many websites.  I see Rotten Tomatoes assessments occasionally, but I often disagree with reviews or "ratings" from anybody, though opinions and consensus are valuable.  Most of the recent popular films of THIS century do not interest me.  

I don't go to IMDB unless all else fails.  

I use Wikipedia every day.  When I was very young and an avid reader, I read World Book.  

I buy a few times a year from one or two others, but too many passwords are a pain.

I had a set of World Book from 1949 that told me man would never set foot on the moon. My Dad found them in an old farmhouse we rented in 1969. So- yeah.
That's when you start to use your own brain and doubt everything you hear and half of what you see.  

Thast was based on an idiotic and completely inane belief that a rocket could not fly in space  as in vacuum there was no air form the exhaust to push against. This was based on a statement made by a scientifically half ignorant person who did not understand laws of motion.

Forgive my ignorance, Sven, but could you please explain the laws of motion to me?

[El Misfit]

I am not devoted to too many websites.  I see Rotten Tomatoes assessments occasionally, but I often disagree with reviews or "ratings" from anybody, though opinions and consensus are valuable.  Most of the recent popular films of THIS century do not interest me.  

I don't go to IMDB unless all else fails.  

I use Wikipedia every day.  When I was very young and an avid reader, I read World Book.  

I buy a few times a year from one or two others, but too many passwords are a pain.

I had a set of World Book from 1949 that told me man would never set foot on the moon. My Dad found them in an old farmhouse we rented in 1969. So- yeah.
That's when you start to use your own brain and doubt everything you hear and half of what you see.  

Thast was based on an idiotic and completely inane belief that a rocket could not fly in space  as in vacuum there was no air form the exhaust to push against. This was based on a statement made by a scientifically half ignorant person who did not understand laws of motion.

Forgive my ignorance, Sven, but could you please explain the laws of motion to me?

MUST YOU START BAITING? Seriously,  this type of response is going to start derailing the thread. JUST F**KING IGNORE HIM. If you continue then I'll be disappointed in you

[Ash]

I have never used RT.  No way!   
Metacritic is the only site I've gone to for years.

[claws]

I don't use RT since the rating system is bizarre.  Personally I thought IMDb had a more consistent rating system between critics and users  than RT. IMDb still has a better system than RT, but personally I think it's been borked when Amazon bought them.

I actually agree with most of IMDb's ratings. The unusual high rating of a movie boosted by fake accounts or by "friends" of the filmmaker are easy to spot. That's why IMDb increased the voting count from 1,500 to 10,000 for a rating to be accepted in their "best" or "worst" lists. That said, I have my own rating code based on IMDb's ratings:

6,9 and higher - 10/10 or 5/5 (Perfect)
6,4 - 6,8 - 9/10 or 4.5/5 (Excellent)
5,9 - 6,3 - 8/10 or 4/5 (Great)
5,4 - 5,8 - 7/10 or 3.5/5 (Very Good)
4,9 - 5,3 - 6/10 or 3/5 (Good)
4,4 - 4,8 - 5/10 or 2.5/5 (Flawed but Worthy)
3,9 - 4,3 - 4/10 or 2/5 (Fair)
3,4 - 3,8 - 3/10 or 1.5/5 (Barely sufficient)
2,9 - 3,3 - 2/10 or 1/5 (Poor)
2,4 - 2,8 - 1/10 or 0.5/5 (Very Poor)
2,3 and lower - 0/10 or 0/5 (Awful)

[Svengoolie 3]

I am not devoted to too many websites.  I see Rotten Tomatoes assessments occasionally, but I often disagree with reviews or "ratings" from anybody, though opinions and consensus are valuable.  Most of the recent popular films of THIS century do not interest me.  

I don't go to IMDB unless all else fails.  

I use Wikipedia every day.  When I was very young and an avid reader, I read World Book.  

I buy a few times a year from one or two others, but too many passwords are a pain.

I had a set of World Book from 1949 that told me man would never set foot on the moon. My Dad found them in an old farmhouse we rented in 1969. So- yeah.
That's when you start to use your own brain and doubt everything you hear and half of what you see.  

Thast was based on an idiotic and completely inane belief that a rocket could not fly in space  as in vacuum there was no air form the exhaust to push against. This was based on a statement made by a scientifically half ignorant person who did not understand laws of motion.

Forgive my ignorance, Sven, but could you please explain the laws of motion to me?

If I didn't  hate the very air you breath because you're a hateful completely useless negging troll I wouiod explain the min understanding of newtons laws that lead people to wrongfully believe a rocket could not function in space.

But since you are a worthless sack of vileness you can go xxxx yourself.

[Olivia Bauer]

Stop derailing my thread. Talk about Rotten Tomatoes or get out.

[Rev. Powell]

I don't use RT since the rating system is bizarre.  Personally I thought IMDb had a more consistent rating system between critics and users  than RT. IMDb still has a better system than RT, but personally I think it's been borked when Amazon bought them.

IMDB doesn't have it's own rating system for critics, it includes Metacritic's ratings.

IMDB is fine to tell how popular a movie is once it gets a lot of votes (maybe 10,000 or more?) Movies with fewer votes can have very skewed ratings. You also have to beware that 6.5, not 5, is the average (mean) rating for a movie on IMDB, and certain genres always have inflated ratings (Indian movies and anime, especially). IMDB ratings can be misleading.

[Svengoolie 3]

There are plenty of b movies that RT doesn't have  anything on at all.  Imdb had something abut just about every movie. The problem is imbd is slowly disappearing behind  a pay wall bit by bit. 

Honestly a small site like mthis may have no influence but it also hasn't attracted corruption from the movie industry. Also we donct get mobs of optical or social trolls down voting movies because "feminism! " or "socialism!"