Apple Adds 'Rotten Tomatoes' Movie Ratings and Reviews to iTunes Store

[bobertoq]

I never really liked Rotten Tomatoes review system.
Since it's either fresh/rotten or positive/negative they have to place everything to be either fresh or rotten. So for say a neutral review, which a lot of movies fall under, they usually get pushed to the rotten side.
So most movies have a much lower rating then it should.

Well I'm sure most people don't want to watch a movie they well think "meh" or neutral about. So it makes sense that neutral feelings result in a negative rating.

 

[bigdaddyp]

Critics are terrible. You can't trust them at all. Just because they like a movie doesn't mean it's good. And if they hate something, it may very well be great.

I trust user reviews, especially if there are hundreds or thousands of them. Individual people do a much better job of reviewing movies than critics.

Roger Ebert rocks, but really, the rest of the critics are a dying breed. Newspapers are dying and with them, the critics.

Movies can reach the people today directly. The interloper the critic is a relic.

I think Roger Ebert is a very good critic but if you look at his situation he is the one that seems to be dying.

 

[bigdaddyp]

I like this a lot. Now just get rid of the user reviews

Valentine's Day:

Critics: 18%

Users: 4.5/5

Sometimes it's not the users though sometimes it is the critics themselves.
Some, not all, movie critics compare..lets say "gone with the wind" on the same scale as "Valentines Day". Other critics will look at how the movie is marketed and what genre it is and will compare it to equivalent movies. That is, to my thinking, a far more accurate way to review a movie.