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its reasonably accurate being that it takes a lot of reviews and creates a grade from that. plus u can read the positive and negative reviews and make your mind up off that if u don't trust the number and really want to see something😛 its not so hard. its a tool, a very good one. and it shows how powerful the net is, imagine before rottentomatoes, ur access to reviews just plain sucked and getting a real idea of whether a film is worth watching was a lot harder. i do disagree with some of the higher rated oscar bait films. like the boring and pretentious syriana and such.
 
Originally posted by: Bartino
i am losing faith in this once plentiful resource.haha i have found that pretty much every movie sucks according to this website. all in all it falls to people's personal opinions, but i noticed that my favorite movies, and i am not alone, have gotten terrible ratings on rottentomatoes. are there any other good movie review sites out there, because i havent been able to find any.

thought rating were a combo of critics and normal people too?
 
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Originally posted by: torpid
It is sort of binary, Mani, but they do tell you the average rating as well. The problem is, a lot of review sites, such as new york times, don't give an actual number, so even the tomato vs splat can be subjective at times. It is not really possible to equate a new york times review with a star rating, so that is why rotten tomatoes does not display the average rating with any prominence.

I see your point, but I still prefer an average rating score listed prominently with unquantifiable ratings like the NYT's left out. I'll have to start looking for the average rating number from now on - somehow I never noticed before you pointed it out.
 
I don't read reviews. If i want to see the movie, i see it. If i don't, i don't. I don't need someone else's opinion on it...i just don't care.
 
I like metacritic.com much better. The user reviews are sometimes better at giving you an idea of how good the movie is. But, its often the case that you like a movie that was review poorly by critics and users. I usually just read the synopsis of a movie and if it sounds interesting Ill watch it.
 
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