You shouldnt go by audience reviews for movies and TV, amirite?

Audience reviews give you a pretty good general idea if it's worth watching, assuming you like the genre and the premise. Swarm intelligence is useful.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This is stupid. If a restaurant had 500 reviews, I can guarantee less than 5% of them are from critics or food experts. If the "regular people" give damning reviews, I'll pay attention. Same thing applies to movies and TV shows.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Food and movies arent exactly the same in comparison. People could bomb a restaurants rating because their staff is too diverse or not diverse enough. Captain marvel (i dont think its good) got bad reviews my people complaining about women.

by rosadaugherty 1 week ago

Your only critique of food is if its cooked to a proper temperature? Are your movie reviews just listing the run time?

by OneEntertainment4479 1 week ago

It's 100% comparable

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Captain Marvel was also a garbage movie.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I trust the reviews of critics as much as I trust Dr Drew being honest on his weight loss ads on YouTube, or any political ad.

by MulberryDifficult564 1 week ago

It's honestly rare anymore that I can't tell if I want to watch something just after seeing a trailer. Some can be spoilery but honestly unless it's an established franchise that I'm invested in most of the spoilers go in one eye and out the other.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

While I agree with you in terms of aggregate score, I think there can be a lot of value in individual reviews depending on what you're looking for. These days I mostly just want a movie that's fun and has decent pacing, and I can overlook camp or bad writing if it nails a concept or is an overall a good time. For movies that have been critically panned I keep an eye out for audience reviews where the reviewer had the kind of experience I'm looking for.

by Suspicious-System515 1 week ago

I agree with you.

by rosadaugherty 1 week ago

I often go to movies where the audience reaction is extremely polarized because I know it will be an unusual or provocative film

by Jaysoncronin 1 week ago

Why would I trust a critic? They are just another member of the audience watching. Their reviews are just as invalid as someone who says "MCU sucks'.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

They're much more likely to know the craft. Users tend to stick to fewer types of movies, I would guess, and will thus be less familiar with advanced techniques, such as high level composition or low key genre mixing.

by wehnergretchen 1 week ago

Most actually do care about the art of movie making.

by rosadaugherty 1 week ago

And reviewers are paid shills, where the audience paid to watch said film or show.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Based on what? Because they were paid? So all critics are paid off to negatively or positively review?

by rosadaugherty 1 week ago

Yea, I am not going to trust someone who is paid to give their opinion and stand to benefit by giving certain movies/shows a glowing or terrible review.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You mean like how audiences can? Fan event screenings?

by rosadaugherty 1 week ago

Even at fan event screening there is no benefit to the audience for a good or poor review. Paid critics are not to be trusted.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Theres no benefit to a good or bad review from a critic.

by rosadaugherty 1 week ago

Sure there is there are people who will go and see a movie just because a critic says it's good, and vice versa about one that is bad.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Well maybe I also dont have an attention span. It all depends on what you expect form a movie. When you enjoy looking at movies for pure enjoyment then I would look at the audience review.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Audience reviews are like any other review, even the ones by professional critics, they're opinion pieces and as such, won't matter if you legitimately enjoy the media. Otherwise if all you did was avoid any media that was negatively reviewed, you may miss out on something enjoyable. Like all the critics slammed Pacific Rim: Uprising and Independence Day: Resurgence but I enjoy them for what they are, craptacular movies that make me realize just how great good movies actually are.

by Proof-Security1061 1 week ago

My thing isnt whether or not a movie is enjoyable. Fast and furious movies are enjoyable but bad.

by rosadaugherty 1 week ago

It really depends on type of movie.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It does i can agree with that. Like horror and comedy especially.

by rosadaugherty 1 week ago

An average of carefully handpicked Letterboxd followees is where it's at.

by wehnergretchen 1 week ago

But what does that mean handpicked? People that actually analyze the movie?

by rosadaugherty 1 week ago

You pick them and follow them, based on how similar your tastes are, and if your handpicked gang rate a movie low on average, you're unlikely to like it, is the idea.

by wehnergretchen 1 week ago

Nah, dude, but you can publish it if you want, don't let THE MAN tell you what to do ok it's my bedtime…

by wehnergretchen 1 week ago

Its not appealing to authority… its people saying all critics are wrong but will say listen to people who bash on a movie because theres a black person in it

by rosadaugherty 1 week ago

Except that doesn't happen, does it? Certainly not to an extent to skew aggregated reviews. People didn't hate The Marvels because it had black people and/or women in it. It was a genuinely bad movie with a nonsensical plot, terrible dialogue, laughably bad CGI, etc. Simply writing off negative fan reaction as "well they're all -ists and -phobes and toxic trolls" is why Disney has completely destroyed the audience for two of the most valuable IPs in movie history.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yes it was bad but people focus on the wrong aspects

by rosadaugherty 1 week ago

There is a sort of emergent intelligence that comes from comparing averages from a significant number of people, even if individual people within each cohort are dumb.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Why would i not care about the opinions of other people like me? Im looking for movie suggestions not a dissertation on brain surgery.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If I want to know about the score and cinematography, I ask the critics. If I want to know if I will have a good time, I ask the audience.

by rosaliarolfson 1 week ago

The general population is dumb. I am dumb. So I'm gonna see what fellow dumb dumbs say.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

womp womp

by margret70 1 week ago

I use pro critics for TV, movies, and video games. I'm not trusting a bunch of nerds with reviews stating "this game is woke, it uses brown on tree trunks 0/10"

by Lmetz 1 week ago

Exactly

by rosadaugherty 1 week ago