fun fact Man on Wire is the only movie with a perfect rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/toy_story_2/
http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/godfather/
really?

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/toy_story_2/
http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/godfather/
really?

huh never mind I read it was.

I liked the original Land Before Time movies as a kid and Man on Wire wasnt the last movie I watched.


The 40 year old virgin - Still funny..

goddammit you not only didn't get my post but you just cemented it.

I still think Rotten Tomatoes' rating system is stupid... If people think a single film is 'quite good' and all of them barely give it a fresh rating it will have a higher rating than a movie where everyone claimed it to be THE best film they've ever seen, but one person doesn't like it. They should make their average rating score for each film the MAIN score, rather than the rotten/fresh piece of shit.

The Departed was the last film I watched... amazing. Just amazing. If you like a film with some brilliant twists or the gangster genre, then watch this brilliant flick directed by Scorcese.

The Departed was the last film I watched... amazing. Just amazing. If you like a film with some brilliant twists or the gangster genre, then watch this brilliant flick directed by Scorcese.

Infernal Affairs 2 > The Departed

I do want to see the Internal Affairs films now, as a result... But I do have a feeling i won't like them as much, but oh well.

I still think Rotten Tomatoes' rating system is stupid... If people think a single film is 'quite good' and all of them barely give it a fresh rating it will have a higher rating than a movie where everyone claimed it to be THE best film they've ever seen, but one person doesn't like it. They should make their average rating score for each film the MAIN score, rather than the rotten/fresh piece of shit.

The Departed was the last film I watched... amazing. Just amazing. If you like a film with some brilliant twists or the gangster genre, then watch this brilliant flick directed by Scorcese.

Rotten Tomatoes' rating system is only stupid to people who are too lazy to actually read the reviews it links to.

Rotten Tomatoes' rating system is only stupid to people who are too lazy to actually read the reviews it links to.

I do read the reviews, but that doesn't negate the fact that the rating system is done in a way that really doesn't percieve accuracy at a first glance. The first thing you see of a film on the site is the rating and that will effect most people's interperetation of the film when they're reading through the reviews.

But I think that most people who use Rotten Tomatoes are aware that it's a review aggregate, so the FIRST GLANCE is irrelevant because they end up researching a movie a little further if it has a fresh rating.

Also, the example you used where most people think a movie is the greatest thing ever but one doesn't, and then everybody agrees that another movie is "pretty good" is pretty unrealistic.  I know that it was sort of an exaggeration but for the most part if some people say a movie is the "best thing ever" and some say it sucks then it's a pretty safe bet that it might not be as good as those people say it is.

If people think a single film is 'quite good' and all of them barely give it a fresh rating it will have a higher rating than a movie where everyone claimed it to be THE best film they've ever seen, but one person doesn't like it.

Like, this never happens.  A slightly above average movie is never going to get universally slightly above average reviews. 

I dont agree with that statement at all. There are plenty of incredible movies that get slatered because they just don't understand them. 2001 a space odyssey for instance is an incredible movie, but a lot of people just dont get it and so rate and being "shit" or "overrated"

A rule of thumb, don't listen to someone else opinion of something. Judge it for yourselves because reviewers can be some the most obnoxious and arrogant people out there and I really don't want to be told what's good and what's not by anyone :/

I dont agree with that statement at all. There are plenty of incredible movies that get slatered because they just don't understand them. 2001 a space odyssey for instance is an incredible movie, but a lot of people just dont get it and so rate and being "shit" or "overrated"

First of all, 2001 has a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.  Bad example.  We're not talking about AVERAGE MOVIE GOER, we're talking about professional reviewers here. 

A rule of thumb, don't listen to someone else opinion of something. Judge it for yourselves because reviewers can be some the most obnoxious and arrogant people out there and I really don't want to be told what's good and what's not by anyone :/

Also this is exactly why Rotten Tomatoes' system is good!  It's a review aggregate, so instead of just reading one review and coming to a conclusion based on that, you can read a lot of reviews from a lot of professional reviewers and come to a conclusion ON YOUR OWN (wha...what...). There's nothing wrong with reading a review to help decide if you want to see a movie or not.  That's what reviews are for. 

Obviously a reviewer isn't going to be "right" about a movie every time, so that's why you want to gather a lot of opinions and come to your own conclusion.  Sometimes that can save you ten bucks.

Also if a movie has a rotten rating then it's a pretty safe bet that nobody liked it because it was a bad movie, not because they "didn't get it."

you're probably right, but I was just commenting on that statement out of context of the reviews and I just felt like bitching about reviewers becuase they're so damn smug

I find Rotten Tomatoes to be highly reliable. Lots of people give me shit because "Oh how can you think Seven Pounds sucks if you only read reviews you have to see it yourself or you can't say shit".

Whatever.

I'm fed up arguing about Seven Pounds with people who think it's 'da best'...

if someone told me seven pounds was the best i'd point out that jellyfish death is the climax of the movie and if they think this is the best i will dick them for free. free dicking from me.

hey i'm gonna do something funny and mean watch this space.

You have some fair points Roman, although I do believe that no score at all would be the best... People really need to be encouraged to read the actual content of a review. I think Robert Christgau's integration of things such as 'Choice cuts', 'Turkeys' and 'Duds' among a grading system (which also contains a system with honourable mentions), while it seems over complicated, I feel grades are a much better alternative to numbers and these other factors mixed in can really help get his feelings about an album around (yes, I am aware we're talking about film). I know an aggregator wouldn't really be able to do that, but if it can just make SOME step towards that.

jesus christ.

Massy's movies:

Kung Fu Panda
Teeth
Idiocracy
Tropic Thunder
Wall-E
Taken
Them- this is the post where he says HUH FOREIGN MOVIES STARTED GETTING GOOD WHAT GIVES
The Brave One
Pan's Labyrinth
Untraceable
The Mummy 3
X-Files: I Want to Believe
The Dark Knight
Romeo Must Die
Appleseed Ex Machina
Aliens vs Predator 2
The Love Guru
Role Models
The Nines
Quantum of Solace
Punch Lady
Shutter
Resident Evil Degeneration
27 Dresses
Eagle Eye
Ghost Town
Bangkok Dangerous
Twilight
30 Days of Night
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Passengers
Wild Child
Seven Pounds
The Sixth Sense
Alien Raiders
Disaster Movie
Burn After Reading
August Rush
Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story
The Express
End of Days
The Alphabet Killer
City of Ember
The 40 Year Old Virgin

okay topic was made November 1st. it is now January 11th. 30+31+11=72.

you watched 44 movies in that time. 44 movies. in 72 days. reduce that down, that's eleven movies every eighteen days. in a week you watch a little over FOUR MOVIES.

dude at what point is this a topic instead of just a vessel for you to post how much you've seen? this topic is quickly becoming the WHATS ON YOUR MIND of the film forum, but not because of the people, because of you! you're posting a little over four times a week and adding "not so bad" to almost everything.

I am hoping you realize what this means dude. either get a new hobby to supplement this or at the least be more DISCERNING. the last discussion we had with you was when you thought foreign films were all bad. you watch so much DRECK and it's disconcerting because not only do you almost always describe it in positive terms but it's also in vague terms like "I liked it".

I know you are foreign so maybe access to the movies is limited as is maybe even your ability to speak critically about these films but jesus christ FOUR MOVIES A WEEK. actual film critics do not watch this many movies.