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Rotten tomatoes is rotten itself. Half the professional critics there have been bought and paid for. So many movies have a critics score of 20 and an audience score of 90, or vice versa. It's just a sad place, don't go there
What do you prefer instead?
Why do you need anyone or any site telling you what you like and what not? Just watch the movies. Be your own judge and executioner.
I have a letterboxed acc, just for tracking purposes. Most reviews on letterboxd are reddit style “funny” “jokes”, so no point in reading those either. Just go by genre, director, etc. and have fun. I do sometimes check the lists on there tho.
I just don’t have time to watch them all, I’d like to whittle that list down a little bit before diving in
No one has the time to watch all movies.
You are afraid to waste time on a movie you might find bad? How will you know if a movie is good if you never seen a bad movie?
It’s perfectly OK to watch random movies. Be adventurous, it’s art after all. If you only watch popular movies you’ll never find your niche, something that fulfills your art/entertainment needs.
I’ve seen plenty of bad movies, I’m just old and would rather not waste my remaining time on any more of them. Right now my routine is to see what’s available on the services I have, then read reviews on IMDb before watching anything. I tend not to watch popular movies which is why I look them up to get an idea if it’s something I think I’d like.
I agree with this sentiment. I'll watch literally any movie that catches my eye. If it's good, I'm happy. If it's bad, my taste develops and I'm happy. If it's really bad, I'm having a uniquely great time shitting on an awful movie. The experience is nothing but wins in my book.
It's just that time is precious, and other activities can take precedence for some. So after having wasted enough time on bad movies or series, and with this huge amount of movies some kind of prefilter makes sense (for me e.g. a rather high imdb score which I'm often agreeing with)
Because there is too much shit out there to waste your time on it.
I might have worded it clumsily.. I don't think anyone should watch ALL movies or not to look up stuff.
I think it's important to learn to choose your media without outside help and/or manipulation (ads, paid reviews etc.). I do look for reviews when it comes to video games, since I don't know many people IRL who play much.
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Reddit LMAO
I just watch content creators or reviewers whose taste matches with mine and check their recommendations first. Otherwise check 2 or 3 positive and negative reviews in imdb, rt, Google. You can roughly tell who are shills, trolls or giving valid criticisms.
I guess IMDb is still reasonably good, though I might be mistaken