What's The Last Movie You’ve Seen?

[Game6Conley]

Just checked and the accountant had a 51% Rottentomatoes approval rating from critics, obviously I'm not the only one who have issues with it.

It's hysterical to me that movies are pimping their RT%'s on trailers these days. To me that's a very bad signal for the legitimacy of those %'s................. I suspect it will head the direction of Soundscan type of fugazi album sale #'s...

Saw a trailer for the Denzel Washington movie and they were pimping like an 84% rating.

 

[The Midnight]

It's hysterical to me that movies are pimping their RT%'s on trailers these days. To me that's a very bad signal for the legitimacy of those %'s................. I suspect it will head the direction of Soundscan type of fugazi album sale #'s...

Saw a trailer for the Denzel Washington movie and they were pimping like an 84% rating.

Yah that's a questionable practice, if your movie's good it should be able to stand on its own merit and/or evident through in the trailer. I always try to avoid watching trailers though personally, I just don't like seeing snippets of movies I'm gonna be watching whole - the way the director meant for me to see it.


Having said that movies/books have always done that though with advertisement? Sundance Winner Best Director, Cannes People's Choice Award, etc, etc? I'm reading a book right now that's got 3 pages of excerpts from so called 'critics'. I mean, that's over the top to me.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

RT% are not end all be all for quality of movies. For one thing, a lot of critics are complete copy cats and they just echo whatever the early critic opinions are. That or they sometimes grasp way to hard on a movies shortcomings instead of appreciating a movie for what it's good at.

 

[Game6Conley]

RT% are not end all be all for quality of movies. For one thing, a lot of critics are complete copy cats and they just echo whatever the early critic opinions are. That or they sometimes grasp way to hard on a movies shortcomings instead of appreciating a movie for what it's good at.

My concern is newer movies ratings being compromised for the sake of strengthening a sales pitch.. That type of practice runs rampant thru most every media industry. Especially one where reviews often affect sales -- The video game industry (and magazines giving incomplete games 9/10 ratings) has been innundated with that type of **** for i'd say 20+ years...


The 400 Blows, which is in my top-2 movies of all time has a perfect 100% rating. which is legit. My other favorite movie Primer is at 71% which is obviously reflects that the story flew over many heads.. They're pretty good just certainly not always accurate..



I really like the Guy Ritchie movie Revolver which is at 17%... Again I feel like it flies over many heads tho..

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

My concern is newer movies ratings being compromised for the sake of strengthening a sales pitch.. That type of practice runs rampant thru most every media industry. Especially one where reviews often affect sales -- The video game industry (and magazines giving incomplete games 9/10 ratings) has been innundated with that type of **** for i'd say 20+ years...


The 400 Blows, which is in my top-2 movies of all time has a perfect 100% rating. which is legit. My other favorite movie Primer is at 71% which is obviously reflects that the story flew over many heads.. They're pretty good just certainly not always accurate..



I really like the Guy Ritchie movie Revolver which is at 17%... Again I feel like it flies over many heads tho..

Yeah, Revolver is a good example of a laughable RT score that is by no means a bad movie.

Gone in 60 Seconds is another one, it's a 24% and it's a solid movie.

 

[The Midnight]

RT ratings are more or less about right in most cases though with a few exceptions that I can't think of off the top of my head.


If anything I think it tends to skew towards the high side. Captain America this year got 90% for example, not sure I would give it that high a score.


Looking at last year. Spotlight's got 96% .. I mean, it was good but was it really THAT good?


It Follows got 96% ... it certainly wasn't THAT good neither IMO.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

RT ratings are more or less about right in most cases though with a few exceptions that I can't think of off the top of my head.


If anything I think it tends to skew towards the high side. Captain America this year got 90% for example, not sure I would give it that high a score.


Looking at last year. Spotlight's got 96% .. I mean, it was good but was it really THAT good?


It Follows got 96% ... it certainly wasn't THAT good neither IMO.

Rotten tomatoes doesn't give scores out, it's either rotten or fresh. So if it has a 97% that doesn't mean it's a great movie necessarily, just that there is very little controversy that it is a good movie.

Or at least that's how I think it works. And It Follows was great.

 

[The Midnight]

Rotten tomatoes doesn't give scores out, it's either rotten or fresh. So if it has a 97% that doesn't mean it's a great movie necessarily, just that there is very little controversy that it is a good movie.

Or at least that's how I think it works. And It Follows was great.

So The Accountant getting a 50% rating means half of all critics think it's rotten?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

So The Accountant getting a 50% rating means half of all critics think it's rotten?

I'm probably wrong on how that works. I retract my statement.

 

[Miggs]

RT is garbage imo. It's not perfect but IMDB is such a better indicator as to the quality of a movie.

 

[RandyForRubio]

I really don't care what a critic thinks of a movie. They more than likely don't share my tastes. If a movie sounds and looks good, I'll watch it. If it doesn't, I won't.

La La Land has terrific ratings. I'm sure it's a good movie. It looks like something I would hate. Therefore, I won't watch it. This isn't a difficult process. It's called "thinking for myself". Some people seem to not be able to do that here.

 

[The Midnight]

LOL .. nobody here is taking a certain critic's view seriously as if it's life and death. We all watch the movie ourselves and form our own opinions. It's just interesting sometimes to see what others think about the same movie that's what we're doing here in this thread and maybe recommend some good movies we've seen.