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[–] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Any ratings system for art is stupid, from simple star ratings to book-length reviews from professional critics. I use CSS tweaks in Stylus and uBlock Origin to hide ratings and reviews for everything on IMDb and Steam (and many other places), and after watching a film or playing a game and then going to the ratings, I'm almost always shocked at how low they are compared to my own experiences with them. It's a very rare occasion when I'm like "well, I wasted 90 minutes watching that piece of shit". Going into a film with poor ratings ringing in your ears is only going to ensure you dislike it, because you're gonna completely switch off your own benefit-of-the-doubt and want to have your views line up with the consensus and to edit your experience in real-time. This is robbing you of everything a film offers.

I've been doing the CSS thing for years and have never looked back. It's improved my movie and game experiences tenfold and made me a marginally happier person in general. Try it, you lose literally nothing but gain so, so much.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    How do you choose what to watch then? There's literal thousands of movies released every year, to me it's already hard to choose as is. I usually just check the ratings curve to make sure the movie wasn't review bombed (or the opposite).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Not the commenter but...recommendations is the way.

    I'm more of a music guy nowadays and follow several people with overlapping tastes who post what they like. Beats an algo any day

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