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ruidh t1_jca3q3g wrote

The brigading on Captain Marvel and Black Panther are obvious.

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Brewe t1_jca5g2g wrote

To be fair to all the racists (not that they deserve it), the 95% critic score is also race motivated. It is really good, but there were one too many mistakes and bad decisions for it to be above a 90%.

(bracing for heavy downvoting from both sides)

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Lakeside_Tigger t1_jcbxvt7 wrote

That’s not how RT works. 90% just means 90% of critics gave the movie a positive review, not that it scored a 9/10.

If 90% of critics give it a 6/10 it still gets a 90% RT score.

If a movie have 100% of critics score it 5/10 the movie gets a 0% for having all negative reviews.

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Bennito_bh t1_jcdlvbe wrote

Sounds like a preposterously bad system

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MVRKHNTR t1_jcdw7i5 wrote

What? How?

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Bennito_bh t1_jce145u wrote

My man, if rounding to the nearest hundred in a metric where 100 is the maximum score doesn’t already sound terrible to you, I won’t be able to explain it.

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MVRKHNTR t1_jce1l5j wrote

I have no idea what it is you're trying to say.

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BelovedOmegaMan t1_jcegfrc wrote

You don't understand how percentages work and are embarrassing yourself publicly about it. I would suggest asking one of your teachers to explain this to you.

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Bennito_bh t1_jcfnme7 wrote

For RT critics there is no difference between 9 critics scoring 100 and 1 scoring 49, and 9 critics scoring 51 with 1 scoring 49.

So fuck off. The system’s terrible.

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MVRKHNTR t1_jcfp6z8 wrote

RT only tells you what percentage of critics gave a positive review, not how good something is. This is like having your height measured and complaining about how that number didn't tell you your weight.

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Bennito_bh t1_jcfq5h7 wrote

Telling what % of critics gave positive review is worse under every metric than simply averaging the scores my man. Outliers count for more under their system.

It asks critics: “Tell me with a score of 0 or 1, how good was this movie?”

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MVRKHNTR t1_jcfrqfn wrote

It's worse in your opinion because you're trying to figure out how good something is and that's not what it's for. It's there to tell you how likely you are to enjoy something and it's much better for that.

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Bennito_bh t1_jcft16p wrote

It’s categorically worse. Instead of doing both, it’a poorly attempting and failing to do one.

For RT critics there is no difference between 9 critics scoring 100 and 1 scoring 49, and 9 critics scoring 51 with 1 scoring 49.

You are not equally likely to enjoy both of these films.

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MVRKHNTR t1_jcfxdap wrote

Rotten Tomatoes isn't actually automated like that. Critics mark their reviews as positive or negative.

So in both of your examples, 9/10 people said "Yeah, I liked this" so you have a 9/10 chance of liking it.

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Suspicious-Feeling-1 t1_jcdzohc wrote

It depends on what you're using ratings for. A binary of good movie / bad movie works great if you are trying to pick a movie with the highest probability of being something you would enjoy. If you want a movie to totally blow you away, an IMDB score or a tally of awards won might be more useful.

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ruidh t1_jca7ac5 wrote

I'm not going to down vote you but I profoundly disagree.

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SyriseUnseen t1_jcbhtxq wrote

I thought Black Panther was a cool movie, but 9,6/10 is an insanely high score. It's pretty damn close to perfect.

It really depends on what people perceive a 9.0 to be. Personally, Id rank very few movies as a 9 or more, as they'd need to be visually pleasing and fantastically written. Others might say a 9.0 is a good movie with no obvious flaws, so a 9.6 could absolutely be justified.

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Lakeside_Tigger t1_jcco9y7 wrote

96% on RT just means 96% of critics gave the movie a positive review, not that it scored a 9.6/10.

If 96% of critics give it a 6/10 it still gets a 96% RT score.

If a movie has a 100% of critics score it 5/10 the movie gets a 0% for having all negative reviews.

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doktarr t1_jccr9c8 wrote

Be that as it may, Black Panther sports an 88 on Metacritic, which does weight by review score. This makes it far and away the highest rated Marvel movie of all time.

For my part I wouldn't put it there. I thought it was a good movie, but the interesting themes of the movie were muddled by some odd blind spots. I'd easily put Logan, GotG, and Thor Ragnarok above it.

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Corintio22 t1_jcd56zg wrote

100% is not perfect. The way RT work, 100% might mean that 2,000 out of 2,000 film critics gave the movie a 6 out of 10 (therefore a positive review).

RT is bad to assess how good or bad a movie is; but good to assess how much of a consensus there is on if a movie is generally good or bad.

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BelovedOmegaMan t1_jcegjms wrote

What films would you say deserve a score of 9.6 or higher?

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SyriseUnseen t1_jcehcxj wrote

None. Schindlers Liste would probably beat out my list at 9.2 or something, though I doubt Id still think so if I watched it more than once.

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VoraciousFungi t1_jca8200 wrote

Marvel was incredibly bad though. Made Thor the dark world look amazing.

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ruidh t1_jcam67g wrote

I liked Thor the Dark World, too.

I think people just don't like female superheroes.

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ExchangeRadiant2903 t1_jcb8pbd wrote

Wonder Woman was received very well and made a ton of money. Just saying

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ruidh t1_jcb9mn1 wrote

Wonder Woman is also below the 45° line, just NW of Black Panther.

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