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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

it's totally subjective

Yet we agree that there is such a thing as one movie being better than another, broadly speaking. It's not something to boil down to a percentage, but you might as well show more detail when you have the data.

Personally, I use ratings to estimate whether a movie that I'm interested in is worth my time. Especially Rotten Tomatoes is super useful for this because the critics score is basically a distilled thumbs up or down.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    it’s totally subjective

    Yet we agree that there is such a thing as one movie being better than another

    I mean I wouldn't say that, it's kind of the opposite of what I was saying actually. But if reviews form a kind of aggregate metric you find useful then that's good for you.

    Elsewhere I even talked about how frequently I disagreed with Siskel and Ebert's thumbs ups/downs, but the text of their reviews at least showed me I would love a movie they thought was bad.

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