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  1. 1. Do you value the critic's score or viewer's score higher?

    • Critic's score
      5
    • Viewer's score
      7


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Have you ever wondered why some films have a huge discrepancy between their critical score and viewer score? Sometimes I think movie critics forget their audience. Perhaps it doesn't matter as far as what constitutes "art", but a "good movie" is one that does what it was made for and entertains a certain demographic.

 

A goofy comedy is meant to be funny and silly. It might not have good character development or a compelling plot but if it did, it probably wouldn't do what it was meant to do. Critics need to make this discrepancy. And this is the main reason I like Rotten Tomatoes. If it's a silly comedy or a niche sci-fi movie and it has a high nineties score with the viewers then I know that it probably delivered what it was meant to do even if it has a low critic's score.

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Tbh idek what I prefer

 

Is it really that hard to type out full words?

 

As for the question I lean towards what the audience thinks. Especially if it's a franchise since the audience will be made up of more genuine fans so you'll get a more honest reaction. As opposed to a critic who's just paid to give an opinion.

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Not all RT ratings are accurate but a lot of these DC fanboys have knee jerk reactions to RT ratings as if to say all fresh movies suck and all rotten movies are awesome. There’s good and bad in both. No need to be like Armond “worst mainstream critic” White.

 

I’m bummed out the forums went down. Posted there since fall 2006 and stopped posting a couple of years ago and returned a month before they went down. Had about 25,000 posts there. Too many glitches and bugs on the forum so I’m not surprised it went down.

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Critics seem ok with kids/animated movies, mainstream dramas, war movies, etc. They can't be trusted with low-brow comedy/sci-fi/fantasy/horror or indie/artsy/niche/high-brow films as most don't seem to be able to get past what's "expected" of them (hating the former and loving the latter). And if a movie celebrates neurosis, in all its culturally-recognizable forms, critics will eat it up (being a pretty neurotic crowd themselves, no doubt). Edited by Rutlefan
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