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You're Using Rotten Tomatoes Wrong!

submitted by RFlagg

7 years 4 months ago

Rotten Tomatoes

Most people use Rotten Tomatoes wrong. The oft used tomato ratting isn't the score one should focus on. Sadly the studios themselves who bash the site when it goes against them, also use it wrong when promoting a movie that gets fresh tomato percentages.

6 Comments

ant

I use http://cinesift.com.

That's a great resource. ty.

ant

I use http://cinesift.com.

ant

I agree and you're welcome. You should upvote my comment. I believe I got it from Reddit long ago. It is very useful to find ratings and stuff instead of having to go to each web site! Too bad it can't find some flicks like "Her".

That's a great resource. ty.

oh, boo-hoo... people aren't watching my mediocre movie just because it got bad reviews! So unfair!
This nuance only really affects your middling blockbusters... and I'm sorry, if it's not overwhelmingly-acclaimed, I don't have time for it.

One thing he didn't discuss was user rating vs critic rating. Generally I find that critic ratings are way off on some films because they are judging it against fucking Shakespeare when that's not the type of movie it is.

When the critic score is more than 20% off of the user score, I know I should definitely ignore the critics.

It sounds a lot like "tomatometer" methodology gives a result closer to a median than a mean. But both are useful, given both numbers you get an idea of the variability in scores, I'd love to see review aggregation sites express variability in some clear way.

For now, if you just want a site filtered by average, use Metacritic.

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