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My TV guide shows RT score but it also shows fan's scores, which I normally what I pay most attention to.

 

Everything you just said is completely correct and that's why it's a problem.

 

I remember when Wet Hot American Summer had 1.5 stars on Netflix.

 

But a 100% score could be a barely passable Dreamworks movie and a 17% could be a highly divisive art film.

They don't work.

 

I can't think of a reason to trust the anonymous masses.

 

I've never run into this situation ever. I've never seen a movie with a score in the 90's that is barely passable. And I've never seen a highly divisive art film that was that low. If anything highly divisive art films end up somewhere in the 60's or 70's. Like I said, you can generally assume that a movie in with a RT score in the 90's is at least good. And that a movie 20% or lower probably isn't. That said, you should still read actual reviews from critics that you follow, and understand their taste and compare it to your own to make a real decision if you are gonna base it on critics at all.

 

Don't Think Twice has a higher rating than Moonlight.

 

Doctor Strange has a higher rating than the Master.

 

That is the inherent problem. Glowing praise for a masterpiece like the Master ends up looking the same as "eh fun blockbuster".

 

Roger Ebert hating that movie haunts my very core
Wet Hot American Summer Movie Review (2001) | Roger Ebert

 

That means the system thought you wouldn't like it based on how you starred other things in Netflix. They were predictions not other people's rankings.

 

I blocked this out of my brain. Thanks haha

 

Even stranger then. Oh well, Netflix's bad rankings aren't the issue here haha

 

Proof that even he didn't always get it right (there are other examples of this, I'm sure)

 

Wet Hot American Summer is a ten.

 

RT works well for me. My opinion of a film usually lines up with the RT percentage.

 

Why are you comparing scores for The Master to scores for Doctor Strange anyways? If I'm lookin at the score of The Master and I'm trying to decide if it's for me or not, I'm going to compare it's score with other movies like it, not a superhero movie, and vice versa.

 

Then what's the point of the score in general if you have to decipher what's "expected" or where it should fall on the spectrum of all different types of films?

 

In the end, I'll admit that it's a pointless debate to have and I've just been doing it for fun. People use whatever they want to use to see whatever they want to see.

I've just never understood using an RT rating as an indicator of quality in any way. Might as well use the IMDB ratings.

 

Scores also aren't relative to anything but that exact moment. It's a grade given the second you consumed it for the first time without paying attention to context. See: Doctor Strange is evidently a better movie than Winter Soldier.

 

Yeah, I'm at work. If it's a weekday before 5:30 then just know I'm passing time in between works and bouts of creative inspiration

 

Actually, best point - Iron Man is the highest rated Marvel movie by a wide margin. This is 100 percent attributed to the fact that it was completely new and unique at the time. Now, it might not even be the best Iron Man movie.

 

Counterpoint: It's still the best "Iron Man" movie, even if it deflates in the final act.

 

Iron Man is definitely a top Marvel movie. Top 3, probably top 2 actually. GOTG may be the only one above it.

 

I'm confused what some people think RT scores mean. They don't mean one is a better movie than another. It's an aggregate of a changing reviewer pool. It's a snapshot of reviewer opinion. For a lot of people, this is helpful, for many others, it's not.