It’s fucked up that RT and similar sites with their ratings are so important for so many filmgoers. I would guess it’s because film theatre tickets have become more expensive so people are trying to be as selective as possible with what films they spend their money on.
So people listen to the “average”, go to the movies based on predigested opinions, and end up making their own filmgoing experiences, horizon and taste closer to the average as well. The risk in filmgoing is being minimised (which kind of mirrors the behaviour of the film industry so it’s not without reason that the audiences behave like that, I guess; but it still sucks).
Indeed. The RT scoring favors inoffensive, wide appeal over interesting but not-for-everyone movies.
People act like it’s some kind of dunk when a movie/show they like gets high rating, despite the often useless nature of critics and/or audiences at large to reflect individual taste.
I’ve had a few times where I’ll look at a random movie on some streaming service that I haven’t heard of before, trailer looks great, genre is right up my alley, I’ll watch it, it’s not great but I hope it gets better and then by the end I realise it’s bad.
So I go see the RT score and it’s low to mid rated for both critics and viewers. So after a few of those I started our checking. For ones I haven’t heard of. Found it very useful so far
It’s fucked up that RT and similar sites with their ratings are so important for so many filmgoers. I would guess it’s because film theatre tickets have become more expensive so people are trying to be as selective as possible with what films they spend their money on.
So people listen to the “average”, go to the movies based on predigested opinions, and end up making their own filmgoing experiences, horizon and taste closer to the average as well. The risk in filmgoing is being minimised (which kind of mirrors the behaviour of the film industry so it’s not without reason that the audiences behave like that, I guess; but it still sucks).
Indeed. The RT scoring favors inoffensive, wide appeal over interesting but not-for-everyone movies.
People act like it’s some kind of dunk when a movie/show they like gets high rating, despite the often useless nature of critics and/or audiences at large to reflect individual taste.
I’ve had a few times where I’ll look at a random movie on some streaming service that I haven’t heard of before, trailer looks great, genre is right up my alley, I’ll watch it, it’s not great but I hope it gets better and then by the end I realise it’s bad.
So I go see the RT score and it’s low to mid rated for both critics and viewers. So after a few of those I started our checking. For ones I haven’t heard of. Found it very useful so far