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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2022 15:34:48 GMT
A friend on facebook said that you should never trust Rotten Tomatoes and honestly I'm inclined to agree. Series 11 of Doctor Who has a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes which says it all really. A lot of my favourite films have low ratings too which sometimes I can't argue with (like Jaws the Revenge or Superman IV), but Rocky IV having only 39% is ridiculous. I also notice that modern stuff with political themes often get better ratings from critics. The fact that The Last Jedi has a higher rating than Return of the Jedi is outrageous.
IMDB is just as bad. According to that site Quantum of Solace is better than A View to a Kill and Moonraker. Also, TruWho's ratings are incredibly underrated on there. Nothing from the Colin Baker era has anything higher than a 7.9 while there's just six stories from the 1980s that have episodes that are higher than 8.0. NuWho constantly got 8s and 90s before the Whittaker era.
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Post by iank on Jan 30, 2022 20:53:01 GMT
No. Not that I ever use them. I've no interest in the collected opinions of the sheepie.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2022 12:05:23 GMT
You don’t need others to tell you what to like, nor do You need their validation of your tastes. If I did probably 75% of what I watch would be chucked in the bin.
Not only that but it’s not just wither something is good. Sites, like people can be bribed or have aggendas which result in them giving very biased opinions. You point out the issue as it relates to nuwho and the Jodie era. I’m shore some are being objective but many get to hung up on their own crap to actually look at it fairly.
Case in point, Donnie Darko has an 8/10 on IMDb and 86% on Rotton Tomatos, yet I find it one of the most boring films I ever watched.
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom had a 6.2 on IMDb and a 47% on Rotten Tomatos but I really enjoyed it, which puts me at odds with even other JP fans.
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Post by burrunjor on Feb 1, 2022 18:24:36 GMT
A friend on facebook said that you should never trust Rotten Tomatoes and honestly I'm inclined to agree. Series 11 of Doctor Who has a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes which says it all really. A lot of my favourite films have low ratings too which sometimes I can't argue with (like Jaws the Revenge or Superman IV), but Rocky IV having only 39% is ridiculous. I also notice that modern stuff with political themes often get better ratings from critics. The fact that The Last Jedi has a higher rating than Return of the Jedi is outrageous. IMDB is just as bad. According to that site Quantum of Solace is better than A View to a Kill and Moonraker. Also, TruWho's ratings are incredibly underrated on there. Nothing from the Colin Baker era has anything higher than a 7.9 while there's just six stories from the 1980s that have episodes that are higher than 8.0. NuWho constantly got 8s and 90s before the Whittaker era. The friend was me I take it LOL. I went on a big rant about them on FB. (Don't worry we're not a new clique. Anyone who wants to add me on FB, PM me.) I was basically ranting about how Legend one of my all time favourite films got such a savaging on Rotten Tomatoes. IMO Legend is an absolute classic. It's just so visually beautiful and imaginative, and throw in the greatest on screen Devil of all time and it stands head and shoulders above most other fantasy films in my opinion. Doom Patrol season 2 which I finished a while back got 97 percent on RT. Doom Patrol is I honestly think the worst tv series ever made. It's a shame as season 1 was okay. It had a great pilot but it did tail off a bit by the end. However season 2 was just so bad I couldn't believe what I was watching. For those of you who haven't seen either, here is Legend the film they thought was shit. Here is the tv show they gave 97 percent too. If that doesn't undermine them forever I don't know what will? |
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Post by Bernard Marx on Feb 1, 2022 19:22:49 GMT
The Last Jedi, Chibnall's NuWho, KurtzmanTrek, Ghostbusters 2016, etc. have all had hundreds of legitimate critical reviews removed while textless positive ratings from obvious sockpuppet accounts are allowed to stand. Yeah, this is especially apparent on Rotten Tomatoes, whereby the audience score is often manipulated with negative reviews taken down. In the case of Ghostbusters 2016, even the Guardian's catalogue of reviews available in its search bar, as outlined by UncleDeadly elsewhere, eventually omitted any negative reviews from the paper, with the usual poorly-written puff-pieces left most visible. What I find most baffling is how Rise of Skywalker got panned by critics on that site, with a mere 51% score (the lowest of the series), yet praised by audiences on there with an 87% score, despite having been considerably panned on IMDb by its audience reviews. That's something I've never been able to understand... Peripherally, the thing about all of those projects is that they're basically all made for archetypal middle-class liberals, who paint themselves as progressive in the most shallow possible way, and so latch onto poorly written shite like that, despite the material itself being inherently conservative. The Guardian once claimed that The Last Jedi was "as left-wing as Jeremy Corbyn" (a deeply ironic sentiment given their regular traducement of the latter), despite the fact that the film's politics offers absolutely nothing in the way of thought-provoking or subversive commentary- just inane tonal inconsistency and appalling humour. The awful Canto Bight subplot gives way to the outspoken moral of "It's all a machine- the Empire and the Rebels are no different", only for Del Toro's character to turn out to be a completely redundant misdirection who happens to be evil, therefore rendering any possible message moot. The whole film is a patronising and schizophrenic load of shite, made by a pompous egotist clearly incapable of writing coherently (the only work of Johnson's I rate highly is his directorial work on Breaking Bad, which he had no part in script-wise). It's essentially Star Wars' version of the worst of Moffat's Who, with Rise of Skywalker echoing the unbridled ineptitude of Chibnall's catalogue. Similarly, Chibnall's Who has nothing to offer in terms of thought-provoking or even halfway coherent political content. A woman plays the lead, resulting in the Guardian and other neoliberal outlets praising it for its "progressive" nature, only for the programme to consistently side with corporations and hegemony. Doctor siding with Amazon? Check. Doctor utilising the Master's race against him? Check. An utterly bloated PowerPoint explanation which not only completely contradicts previously established lore, but also renders the Doctor a tool of the establishment, consistently under the predestined control of the Division and therefore mocking their moments of rebellion and autonomy in the Classic Series entirely? Check. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2023 9:22:26 GMT
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Post by iank on Jun 4, 2023 21:40:54 GMT
I don't believe there is any such thing as hate bombing. There is relentless positive review bombing for crap, though. Plus that movie looks shit.  |
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