Rotten Tomatoes has a "Average Rating" under it. Which is more so a score average, than a "Good/Bad" ratio, despite like you said, it's small, but it's there... I think most people know that. I don't see that so much an issue. The way I use RT is that I treat the % as a indicator to the chance that I'd like a film. There's a chance I'll love a a film with 30%, but it's probably less likely than a film with 90%. But I wouldn't complete dismiss a film because of a low %. The real issue, as with most things, are how stupid people are. They treat the % as gospel. Just like they treat game critics as the all knowing gods. And that's what makes the site so important. People hold reviews too such a high regard, they gain a unwarranted importance. And now Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes seem to be the be all and end all of a movies success...(and the box office).
It's kinda like what Nostalgia Critic said about critics in general, but this is very true, one must look at WHY a film can be the way it is, and why the viewer should see it for themselves (I feel your pain Mat, I tried to watch FoodFight!! I couldn't!)
I personally 100% agree. I don't hate the website. In fact, there are times the rotten tomatoes scale is actually correct when it comes to the quality of a film, like Zootopia, Inside Out, finding dory, Scooby Doo 2, etc. Its just... most people have no idea how rotten tomatoes works. I only use the rating scale to judge if they were right or not. the plus about it is that, you can read all the reviews in one website, which is good for people who like to read reviews. It's all a matter of opinion, just many will never accept them! the only thing I hate about it is that I wish the ratings of 6 or 2 and a half stars are considered rotten
Gravitynaut You don't know how to do math do you. Rotten Tomatoes is garbage. This is due to the rating system counting a movie with consistent 7/10s as 100% but then a movie with mostly 10/10s and some 3/10s as 60%. Just look at both IMDb's and Rotten Tomatoes' Top 250. You have brilliant movies never making it to Rotten Tomatoes' top movies because the list is filled with 7/10 lukewarm approval movies that get 100%. It's an absolutely flawed site that everyone simply uses out of stupidity. The IMDB average rating is the one that matters, it's really just a probability out of 10 that anyone on average will enjoy a movie.
I didn't see it(mostly because I have a one movie per month policy, and I had already seen Rifftrax live and Civil War.)But I do know other Ratchet And Clank fans, and they said they liked it.
No he's become one with the shows behind him, OF COURSE ITS A GREEN SCREEN! Sorry had to get that out, its obviously either a green screen or a blue screen
This actually helps me. Being a huge moviegoers I never saw into any specifics about most movies that would be on my radar. But sometimes I would just see the reviews and determine if I would see this movie or not. And other times I would avoid spoilers a little bit. Only the reviews would help make up my mind about any sort of movie in general. But I think Box Office Mojo would be my source to keep up with every movie released. And to me I tend to focus on those that have a more massive impact on any moviegoer and those that are successful in the box office. But overall thanks for explaining this information. I'll keep that in mind the next time I read reviews.
My issue with the whole mindset of "you need to see it yo know if its good" is that it defeats the purpose of reading reviews. For example, the new Star Trek and Ghostbusters. I have nothing but contempt for both, based on literally everything about the production besides the final product. I've openly stated I'm not seeing either. Idiots however keep calling me closed minded for not giving money to studios whose products I find disagreeable and whose actions I find repulsive. At the end of the day, a system that relies on you buying into something to see if you should have bought in in the first place is no market to participate in at all.
I fail to see what that examples has to do with reviews. Refusing to see a movie because you don't agree with the actions of the studio that made it does not mean you don't like the movie. It just means you don't like the studio. It sounds like if you were to pirate a film by a studio you don't like, you might like better than you would if you were to watch it legally.
Because one way to tell whether or not a film will defy your expectations ad that the studios didn't fuck it up is to look at reviews and decide if you want to give it your money at all. That's the whole reason to look at reviews. And yes, if I don't like the studio most likely the studio is grabby on their movies and that influence will ruin the film for me. Happened often enough where it's just preemtive now. I won't even pirate those kinds of films either. Studios use those numbers as well to influence their decisions.
That issue doesn't bother me. I watch reviews for entertainment. You aren't really supposed to take a review seriously. Just some random person's opinion.
Making even more changes to the lore such as changing Sulu's sexuality, along with Paramount making draconian rules for fan projects.Regardless on the merits of gay characters, It is disrespectful to older fans to replace what they know and then say they can't do anything to honor the older continuity unless it is poor quality.
Don't forget about Sonic! People need to look/play/watch into the things before judging/hating them just because it's the cool thing to do, while on the flipside fans of the stuff should be less annoying when defending or praising it for being the best thing ever, even though it obviously isn'y because perspectives.
Duskool Already mentioned Sonic. Seriously why do people always reply to comment threads without reading them thinking they have something original to say? It's really fucking stupid.
@@Zebra_fandomfella03 I mean, I appreciate the idea (Because it was supposed to be a criticism), although it could have been made in an animated version, not with child actors :/
Personally, this is a lot better than the Nostalgia Critic's "When Are Critics Wrong?" editorial. One of his few bad ones. The reason is that Mat doesn't give off the impression that critics have an agenda or something and unlike Doug he knows how the site actually works. Sorry, but it's hard to take him seriously when he has no idea how it works. Like in his reviews of Zootopia or The Jungle Book. I feel when he doesn't mention Rotten Tomatoes or at the very least when he's with Rob and they mention it briefly, then the reviews are far better. The problem is to me he lets it be the soul source of his expectations and as a result he ends up being underwhelmed or let down.
I don't know, I'm personally not gonna see it because I am not a fan of ghost busters in the first place and I have seen the trailers...If I have to see it, might as well see it if everyone else recommended it.
I find that I usually enjoy a film/series most when I'm not necessarily hyping myself up for it and it takes me by surprise. Many movies that I love I stumbled upon by accident with no real expectations, while in most cases when I'm looking forward to a movie/shown with immense excitement, I end up thinking it's OK or even mediocre
Step #1: watch television show or movie Step #2: see what Rotten Tomatoes rating on said television show or movie is Step #3: base your opinion strictly on Rotten Tomatoes rating
I'm sorry, I know you are not a Brony, but I noticed that you had a clip from the show episode: Hoofields and McColts as a background clip when they're throwing tomatoes and I just laughed.
Rotten Tomatoes isn't bad, just not always accurate. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the only Spider-Man movie to have a rotten score. And we all know Morbius deserves a 200%
Honestly it doesn't matter if l hate what they like or if I like something they hate it doesn't always mean it has to affect me Plus the audience score can be more accurate.
This its least trustworthy site, and should never be consider, i don't know how its funding that at this point, and i would not complain if all movies had low rating, but they will give something out this world stupid 90 %, and some amazing movie 23%
I like Rotten Tomatoes personally. No problem considering it is the percentage of people like it. I like it to see movies I have in common with people I disagree on
It's good if you don't want to search for every critic individually since they are listed, but you have to ignore the % and read what they say below. Rotten Tomatoes should be used as a tool like a map not as a guide like a Sherpa. It have to be interpreted. I would also say that it's not because a movie is under 60% that it's gonna be bad to you. I usually enjoy movies over 30%.
Rotten Tomatoes is similar to 4Chan; you either love it or hate it for the same reason (rotten tomatoes is the rating by recommendation and 4chan is how raunchy and mean it is and I love both)
Rotten tomatoes is for idiots! This video is pretty much echoing the same points I've been making for years now(except for his ridiculous conclusion). The good thing is that people are slowly wising up to this and are using metacritic more and more. Though their "algorithm" seems somewhat open to doctoring it's very likely that it's a far more reliable rating system. RT should either wake up and use their fine print average critic rating as the entire premise of their site or simply close up shop. The only other possibility is to start rating kid films only as they are the only ones that would be happy with a simple binary like/dislike way of rating a movie.
Joshua Hogberg The very fact that you're asking me this question shows you have no real understanding of the issue at hand. I have no time to explain this to people that are oblivious to the matter. I would advise you to do a little bit of research before challenging people with your "show me the evidence" attitude. Do a little bit of digging and you'll find the evidence or at the very least arm yourself with enough knowledge to have a proper discussion with me.
There are some critics (like me) who's primary goal is to educate parents on whether a film is appropriate for kids or teens (i.e. "Toy Story 3" might be too scary for young kids), but it's still up to the parents to decide what's okay for their children and what isn't.
Rotten Tomatoes is terrible now. I've been a member on the site now since it began and visit it on average around 4-5 times a week. Have a look just now at the release date they have for God Particle. It's been on the site now for a release date of February, even although it's not due until later on in the year. Their staff don't seem to have a clue because this is now a regular occurrence of posting the wrong release dates. The site is slow, the trailers sometimes refuse to load or are glitchy, the advertisement space takes up half the screen sometimes, they are way behind on the latest movie news which sometimes can be over a week out of date and the site is generally now overall very poor because of it. I would say if they reviewed their own site I would give it a score of 20% ROTTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with you. For example, I think Jurassic park is a good movie, and rotten tomatoes agrees with me. But, I also think Jurassic park: the lost world is a good movie. Rotten tomatoes says otherwise. I think the definition of a good movie varies from person to person, and the best way to tell if a movie is good or not is to see it yourself. Or, if you're that unsure of yourself, find a critics review.
I think "biased" is a better word. If this is really how the rating system works, then it is significantly flawed. However, there are movies that were decent to good which have shitty scores and there are shit movies with masterpiece-level scores. The idea that a movie like Oblivion with such beautiful music and scenery, and an entertaining and unique story from a new director, would get 54% while a lazy, poorly written and poorly acted "comedy" like Spy got 93%; that goes beyond a flawed system.
I can't understand why Thomas and the Magic Railroad, The Black Cauldron, Pete's Dragon, and Hook had poor reviews by the critics on rotten tomatoes. Seriously none of them aren't that bad at all in my opinion.
Rustydog9000! I actually do you understand why Thomas fans says Thomas and the magic railroad isn't as good as they remember it but to tell you the truth the Real reason why it failed in theaters worldwide is because there was the original uncut version of the film with an actual main proper villain named PT Boomer (played by Doug Lennox) which explains the reasons in the film that makes a lot more sense like why Peter Fonda is really sad about his magical engine and why Lilly goes to shining time station and things aren't going well on the island of sodor, but thanks to those Hollywood test audiences that destroyed Britt Allcroft's film she had to cut out PT Boomer because The test audience said he was too frightening which he really isn't that frightening at all. A lot of Thomas fans are working hard to support the petitions you can find on the Internet, ones at change.org restore the magic campaign and reawaken the magic thunderclap determined to see the directors cut of Thomas and the magic railroad release on the big screen worldwide and onto DVD and Blu-ray.
to me i loved xmen apocalypse bet people said it was bland i was like a its good xmen movie b/c basically no wolverine, a strong cocky cool cyclops permanent deaths, sophia turner, a funny but not stupid nightcrawler and good villians
It’s True but I do agree with you about the Critics. The critics are very rude to the other movies that they don’t like. It just peoples opinion. What ever they think about the movies. The Rotten Tomato’s Rating Isn’t Much Of a Big deal for a Movie. Everybody thinks that movies were bad. That actually means the movies that they hate and make Rude Opinions. If everyone thinks that movies were great. That means the movies that they love :) The Rotten Tomato’s is not Bad but it’s just everybody’s else’s Opinion. What ever each movie has 10% it can be Good or Bad. Like storylines Like I said The Rotten Tomato’s just doesn’t Really matter! No matter Everyone else loves a movie :-)
While a lack of patience is definitely a part of this, it may also have to do with some people having a lack of free time and or money. They want to make absolutely sure they go see a good film because they don't want to waste anything.
I never used rotten tomatoes like that, but I have seen those who do and it can get annoying. Also I didn't know you watch Lewtoons, and best use of the chart guys ever.
ALOT of films that have low ratings I enjoyed them.I give you some of the examples Chasing Liberty-19% Kate & Leopold-50% The Amazing Spiderman 2-58% Aquamarine:51% While others are fresh Tangled-90% Enchanted- 93% Cinderella(2015):84% The Lion King-91% Frozen:89% Everyone is a critic at the end of the day. I think metacritic is WAY worse as they always have low ratings.For example Tangled is 90% in Rotten Tomatoes and in Metacritic its 70%. I agree with ya Animat people should see a film for themselves and then let them decide whether or not the film is crap or not.
Though it's meant more as a joke, CinemaSins really annoy me as they make a couple of or a few good points and then spend the rest of the video being silly and people use those videos as arguments for why movies are bad. Another argument also annoys me. One I'd say is obviously is a flawed argument but the fact that people use it for every subject regardless of how many times you remind them it doesn't work annoys me. That argument being, 'I have lots of people agree with me therefore I'm right'. It's unbelievably childish yet people don't stop thinking it's a good argument. Not to sound at all arrogant but I don't understand the way other people are in terms of wanting to know spoilers and get massively hyped for something. That leads people to either be inevitably disappointed ('Avengers: Age of Ultron') or buy fully into it regardless of how good it actually is ('Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens'). I just want to know whether I want to see something (which I decide based on trailers - and when I've seen enough trailers to know I want to see the movie, I won't watch more trailers). I don't want anything spoiled for me and while I do get excited for some movies, I remind myself before watching them that they could be bad and then I watch them objectively (obviously, no-one's perfect but you get my point). I think getting excited for things can be good. I watch trailers before their movies partly because I think it's good to get excited for things but so many people (as in, virtually everyone) take it way too far.
There are multiple movies with low percentages that I liked. There were multiple movies with high percentages that I disliked, or just thought were mediocre. Conjuring 2, for example, was a rather pedestrian horror movie that had little to offer. My sixteen-year-old sister and I were a bit bored in the cinema, and at one point she leaved over to me and muttered that she could be home watching anime. We thought it deserved about sixty or seventy percent at best, but it got far more. Obviously, there is no justice and civilization is doomed.
In the first half of the 2010s, I greatly looked down on Disney live action movies and horror movies because they kept getting rotten ratings on Rotten Tomatoes.
They give kids movies a good rating as of a way of saying here is a movie that will shut up your kids for the next hr or 2. Comic movies get crap rating is there way of saying we already read the comics so we already know what's gonna happen in movie . Other movies it all depends who the pay to say what's good and what's bad
Here's a better idea: Just ignore the critics and judge the movie based on your viewing of it. Who cares if a movie gets 100% or 0% on Rotten Tomatoes? What should matter at the end of the day is your opinion on it and yours alone.
Here's the thing though: we can't afford to see every single movie released just to figure out if we like it or not. So when you have to be choosy, it helps to have something that tells you that it isn't literal crap before you decide to spend your money on it. It can also bring to light some good movies you never would have thought about seeing before, thanks to some critical praise.
+Gravitynaut The best advice I could give is to find a handful of critics that you trust and have similar tastes to you. You don't have to agree with them on everything, but if they like/dislike a movie, it's probably a decent indicator as to whether or not you'll like the film.
I'm not as bad as a lot of people are with this website but thanks to this video I'm going to try to be more open-minded when it comes to critics and reviews and analyzing the true potential of feature films. Thank you Matt
film critics are not always right and if u go by rotten tomatoes to judge a movie then ur not that smart also film critics need to get a job their a person who opion who can persuade u to see it or persuade u not to
To me, IGN and Metacritic are WORSE! I mean, IGN considered the 2017 MLP movie worse than the Emoji Movie. It was even more generous to the Emoji Movie but saying it was just misguided and seriously bashed MLP the movie by saying it was frustating cliche and awful. I was all like "How?" As for Metacritic, look at the reviews of UHF. No wonder Weird Al Yankovic was in a slump for 3 years before getting back to his roots with his "Off the Deep End" album.
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Rotten Tomatoes has a "Average Rating" under it. Which is more so a score average, than a "Good/Bad" ratio, despite like you said, it's small, but it's there... I think most people know that. I don't see that so much an issue. The way I use RT is that I treat the % as a indicator to the chance that I'd like a film. There's a chance I'll love a a film with 30%, but it's probably less likely than a film with 90%. But I wouldn't complete dismiss a film because of a low %.
The real issue, as with most things, are how stupid people are. They treat the % as gospel. Just like they treat game critics as the all knowing gods. And that's what makes the site so important. People hold reviews too such a high regard, they gain a unwarranted importance.
And now Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes seem to be the be all and end all of a movies success...(and the box office).
Hey!! I subscribed to you!!
Nice to see a familiar face around here.
Same thing with IMDB.
The problem us not everyone uses it that way
Sup Loney Goomba!!
It's kinda like what Nostalgia Critic said about critics in general, but this is very true, one must look at WHY a film can be the way it is, and why the viewer should see it for themselves (I feel your pain Mat, I tried to watch FoodFight!! I couldn't!)
The Autistic FanCritic Show after seeing his Pink Floyd The Wall parody I’m not watching or listening to that cringe channel about anything
@@johncastillo2194 Yeah Fuck Doug Walker and anything he does.
Well the chart says...
....Your childhood should be destroyed.
+Jacob Carpenter Likewise disgusting brony
Andrew Green -_-
Forget it!
Whiffy5 I'm not asking the chart; I'm asking you!
I hate Rotten Tomatoes honestly. They unfairly review some WONDERFUL movies
Jah your a idiot rotten tomatoes likes stupid ass movies and downs good movies
Jah123abc✔️ you like despacito your opinion is no longer valid
MarissaFlynn527 I find that they usually give good movies their fair due and terrible movies the rightful thrashing that they deserve.
@@articalp no, it’s a fact.
@@GreatOldOne9866 yeah your right. I honestly forgot I wrote that stupid comment
Even more aggravating is that Wikipedia uses rotten tomatoes scores in the "Critical Reception" segments
I want to see the audience scores!!!
It's like how Star Trek Beyond's ads on YT sometimes say "and with a high rating on RT...."
RT... Like the TH-camr?
Well said. Numbers can't tell you EVERYTHING about a movie.
I like Tomatoes as a site it's a good quick guide. But you made some points I'll have to consider. Funny use of the MLP:FiM scene, clever.
That "Can I please smack you" line just made my day.
I personally 100% agree. I don't hate the website. In fact, there are times the rotten tomatoes scale is actually correct when it comes to the quality of a film, like Zootopia, Inside Out, finding dory, Scooby Doo 2, etc.
Its just... most people have no idea how rotten tomatoes works. I only use the rating scale to judge if they were right or not. the plus about it is that, you can read all the reviews in one website, which is good for people who like to read reviews. It's all a matter of opinion, just many will never accept them!
the only thing I hate about it is that I wish the ratings of 6 or 2 and a half stars are considered rotten
Your agreement with is Certified Fresh.
The simple answer: No, if treated properly. And at least it's not the IMDb User Reviews section. THAT is bad.
Oogieloves is a 10/10 masterpiece
Oogielove. Oogie. Pogielove Love Oogieloves
Now, on the scale from Oogielove to Oogielove, I would give the Oogielove an Oogielove out of Oogielove.
Ever see the user reviews on Oogieloves?
Bots. Bots everywhere.
Gravitynaut You don't know how to do math do you. Rotten Tomatoes is garbage. This is due to the rating system counting a movie with consistent 7/10s as 100% but then a movie with mostly 10/10s and some 3/10s as 60%. Just look at both IMDb's and Rotten Tomatoes' Top 250. You have brilliant movies never making it to Rotten Tomatoes' top movies because the list is filled with 7/10 lukewarm approval movies that get 100%. It's an absolutely flawed site that everyone simply uses out of stupidity. The IMDB average rating is the one that matters, it's really just a probability out of 10 that anyone on average will enjoy a movie.
It sure is bad now
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exactly! I want to see Ratchet and Clank to find out if it is really bad as critics are saying or its just good for Ratchet and clank fans
I didn't see it(mostly because I have a one movie per month policy, and I had already seen Rifftrax live and Civil War.)But I do know other Ratchet And Clank fans, and they said they liked it.
+Dylan Nicholson so if you haven't seen it, how can be that a disappointment?
Dylan Nicholson I know he hated
But still I want to see it
trust me when say it really isnt as bad as they say it is, even me biased fan of the franchise ,my more critical self thought it was a decent movie
+Nathaniel Foga I know, I'm only expecting a decent movie
Now this is a different style in presentation. I actually like this. Are you using a green screen?
No he's become one with the shows behind him, OF COURSE ITS A GREEN SCREEN! Sorry had to get that out, its obviously either a green screen or a blue screen
It couldn't be a bluescreen since he's wearing a blue shirt. So I guess it is green... Unless redscreens exist for special effects.
I honestly did not know that's how the rotten tomatoes rating system worked. Thank you for informing :)
i love your squeaky, nerdy voice. you should be a voice actor
Well he's already done some voice over work
Fact check: you only get a certified fresh if the movie has 80 or more critics.
This actually helps me. Being a huge moviegoers I never saw into any specifics about most movies that would be on my radar. But sometimes I would just see the reviews and determine if I would see this movie or not. And other times I would avoid spoilers a little bit. Only the reviews would help make up my mind about any sort of movie in general. But I think Box Office Mojo would be my source to keep up with every movie released. And to me I tend to focus on those that have a more massive impact on any moviegoer and those that are successful in the box office. But overall thanks for explaining this information. I'll keep that in mind the next time I read reviews.
My issue with the whole mindset of "you need to see it yo know if its good" is that it defeats the purpose of reading reviews. For example, the new Star Trek and Ghostbusters. I have nothing but contempt for both, based on literally everything about the production besides the final product. I've openly stated I'm not seeing either. Idiots however keep calling me closed minded for not giving money to studios whose products I find disagreeable and whose actions I find repulsive. At the end of the day, a system that relies on you buying into something to see if you should have bought in in the first place is no market to participate in at all.
I fail to see what that examples has to do with reviews.
Refusing to see a movie because you don't agree with the actions of the studio that made it does not mean you don't like the movie. It just means you don't like the studio. It sounds like if you were to pirate a film by a studio you don't like, you might like better than you would if you were to watch it legally.
Because one way to tell whether or not a film will defy your expectations ad that the studios didn't fuck it up is to look at reviews and decide if you want to give it your money at all. That's the whole reason to look at reviews.
And yes, if I don't like the studio most likely the studio is grabby on their movies and that influence will ruin the film for me. Happened often enough where it's just preemtive now.
I won't even pirate those kinds of films either. Studios use those numbers as well to influence their decisions.
That issue doesn't bother me. I watch reviews for entertainment. You aren't really supposed to take a review seriously. Just some random person's opinion.
And besides, ignore those idiots who call ypu closed minded. Not like their opinion has any value.
Making even more changes to the lore such as changing Sulu's sexuality, along with Paramount making draconian rules for fan projects.Regardless on the merits of gay characters, It is disrespectful to older fans to replace what they know and then say they can't do anything to honor the older continuity unless it is poor quality.
10:23 FNaF, Undertale, and MLP in a nutshell
IKR
Doesn't even make any real sense most of the time too. Don't forget furries, Sonic and anime BTW.
ERMAHGERD HOW DER U!!!??? RABBLERABBLERABBLE
Don't forget about Sonic!
People need to look/play/watch into the things before judging/hating them just because it's the cool thing to do, while on the flipside fans of the stuff should be less annoying when defending or praising it for being the best thing ever, even though it obviously isn'y because perspectives.
Duskool
Already mentioned Sonic. Seriously why do people always reply to comment threads without reading them thinking they have something original to say? It's really fucking stupid.
Same happened with the super Mario Bros movie when rotten tomato get 46% rating.
And apparently, Rotten tomatoes is the same website that gave Cuties a 84% fresh score 💀
@@Zebra_fandomfella03 Bruh
@@gryficowa ikr. That movie disgusting. At least the audience score for that movie is more tolerable than the tomato meter score
@@Zebra_fandomfella03 I mean, I appreciate the idea (Because it was supposed to be a criticism), although it could have been made in an animated version, not with child actors :/
@@gryficowa or maybe a documentary instead
I've always looked at the box telling why a movie got it's rating because it's common sense
Personally, this is a lot better than the Nostalgia Critic's "When Are Critics Wrong?" editorial. One of his few bad ones. The reason is that Mat doesn't give off the impression that critics have an agenda or something and unlike Doug he knows how the site actually works. Sorry, but it's hard to take him seriously when he has no idea how it works. Like in his reviews of Zootopia or The Jungle Book. I feel when he doesn't mention Rotten Tomatoes or at the very least when he's with Rob and they mention it briefly, then the reviews are far better. The problem is to me he lets it be the soul source of his expectations and as a result he ends up being underwhelmed or let down.
*sniffs the new ghostbusters movie* MAN IT STILL SMELLS LIKE SHIT!!!
I don't know, I'm personally not gonna see it because I am not a fan of ghost busters in the first place and I have seen the trailers...If I have to see it, might as well see it if everyone else recommended it.
+RogueLvther It tries so hard to be progressive that it becomes regressive.
So, is it worth watching or nah? I'm just gonna wait for Doctor Strange to come out and watch that before the new Ghostbusters if it is any good.
Shadow Wolfess no, it never is worth it to watch
+Media Ghost Alrighty. Thanks. :3
I tend to lean more towards the audience score on the site
I find that I usually enjoy a film/series most when I'm not necessarily hyping myself up for it and it takes me by surprise. Many movies that I love I stumbled upon by accident with no real expectations, while in most cases when I'm looking forward to a movie/shown with immense excitement, I end up thinking it's OK or even mediocre
Step #1: watch television show or movie
Step #2: see what Rotten Tomatoes rating on said television show or movie is
Step #3: base your opinion strictly on Rotten Tomatoes rating
I never thought I would hear a song about tomatoes in a squeaky voice, but now I have.
13:25 XD what is that Tomatoes song from, its cracking me up. it sounds like something a Minion would sing if they could speak coheirently
I'm sorry, I know you are not a Brony, but I noticed that you had a clip from the show episode: Hoofields and McColts as a background clip when they're throwing tomatoes and I just laughed.
Rotten Tomatoes isn't bad, just not always accurate. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the only Spider-Man movie to have a rotten score. And we all know Morbius deserves a 200%
Honestly it doesn't matter if l hate what they like or if I like something they hate it doesn't always mean it has to affect me Plus the audience score can be more accurate.
I found the use of the original 12 Angry Men fitting for this arguement
This its least trustworthy site, and should never be consider, i don't know how its funding that at this point, and i would not complain if all movies had low rating, but they will give something out this world stupid 90 %, and some amazing movie 23%
You should look into Kirk Cameron's battle with Rotton Tomatoes over his film, Saving Christmas, getting a 0%.
DONT STOP MAKING TH-cam VIDEOS. I AM SO GLAD YOU MADE THIS VIDEO.
9:48 O look...talking ponies horses in the background...yay.
I like Rotten Tomatoes personally. No problem considering it is the percentage of people like it. I like it to see movies I have in common with people I disagree on
MLP from 9:47-10:33. Hey, wait a minute, was that comment a snipe at us bronies?
Best video about Rotten Tomatoes ever. Thanks for making this.
I can't wait for the Ice Age 5 review!
It's good if you don't want to search for every critic individually since they are listed, but you have to ignore the % and read what they say below.
Rotten Tomatoes should be used as a tool like a map not as a guide like a Sherpa. It have to be interpreted.
I would also say that it's not because a movie is under 60% that it's gonna be bad to you. I usually enjoy movies over 30%.
0:18 Is that Francis in the background?
Rotten Tomatoes is similar to 4Chan; you either love it or hate it for the same reason (rotten tomatoes is the rating by recommendation and 4chan is how raunchy and mean it is and I love both)
Rotten tomatoes is for idiots! This video is pretty much echoing the same points I've been making for years now(except for his ridiculous conclusion). The good thing is that people are slowly wising up to this and are using metacritic more and more. Though their "algorithm" seems somewhat open to doctoring it's very likely that it's a far more reliable rating system. RT should either wake up and use their fine print average critic rating as the entire premise of their site or simply close up shop. The only other possibility is to start rating kid films only as they are the only ones that would be happy with a simple binary like/dislike way of rating a movie.
Joshua Hogberg The very fact that you're asking me this question shows you have no real understanding of the issue at hand. I have no time to explain this to people that are oblivious to the matter. I would advise you to do a little bit of research before challenging people with your "show me the evidence" attitude. Do a little bit of digging and you'll find the evidence or at the very least arm yourself with enough knowledge to have a proper discussion with me.
Yes.
They should really just start using the average rating more frequently.
Your best video yet." Derby Derpy but Rotten Tomatoes gave Frozen- Shut up fanboys, I didn't like it.
I also can't understand why Home Alone 1 and 2 had poor reviews.
Yeah
But if just they did not used statistic to scored the movie , maybe the site will be not that problematic
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Lol. I literally just watched that. 😄
Good video! Shout out to DoubleToasted.com ! Featured in the background @9:08
There are some critics (like me) who's primary goal is to educate parents on whether a film is appropriate for kids or teens (i.e. "Toy Story 3" might be too scary for young kids), but it's still up to the parents to decide what's okay for their children and what isn't.
I think more people need to watch this, and by that i mean the idiots that signed a petition to 'Shut down RT for giving DC movies negative reviews'.
Spider Jeranimo Yeah, those fanboys are morons. DC films deserve low ratings because they’re terrible.
I watch Critics to see the average idea of how good or bad a movie is. Then I can decide what movie I want to spend my money on.
all they give is bad reviews
I would say yes only because people forge their opinions from that rather than actually judging for themselves if something is good or bad.
But the chart says...
I’m not asking the chart I’m asking you
Yes it is
Rotten Tomatoes is terrible now. I've been a member on the site now since it began and visit it on average around 4-5 times a week. Have a look just now at the release date they have for God Particle. It's been on the site now for a release date of February, even although it's not due until later on in the year. Their staff don't seem to have a clue because this is now a regular occurrence of posting the wrong release dates. The site is slow, the trailers sometimes refuse to load or are glitchy, the advertisement space takes up half the screen sometimes, they are way behind on the latest movie news which sometimes can be over a week out of date and the site is generally now overall very poor because of it. I would say if they reviewed their own site I would give it a score of 20% ROTTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with you. For example, I think Jurassic park is a good movie, and rotten tomatoes agrees with me. But, I also think Jurassic park: the lost world is a good movie. Rotten tomatoes says otherwise. I think the definition of a good movie varies from person to person, and the best way to tell if a movie is good or not is to see it yourself. Or, if you're that unsure of yourself, find a critics review.
I think "biased" is a better word. If this is really how the rating system works, then it is significantly flawed. However, there are movies that were decent to good which have shitty scores and there are shit movies with masterpiece-level scores. The idea that a movie like Oblivion with such beautiful music and scenery, and an entertaining and unique story from a new director, would get 54% while a lazy, poorly written and poorly acted "comedy" like Spy got 93%; that goes beyond a flawed system.
So basically there the modern equivalent of Siskel and Ebert then
another great editorial. thanks animat.
I can't understand why Thomas and the Magic Railroad, The Black Cauldron, Pete's Dragon, and Hook had poor reviews by the critics on rotten tomatoes. Seriously none of them aren't that bad at all in my opinion.
Do you mean Thomas the train and the magic railroad cause in that case um I don't know what to say
I've seen Thomas and the Magic Railroad and Hook many times when I was a kid and now, they are still good even if those two have poor reviews
+Rustydog9000! Wait there is a Thomas the train fan base
Rustydog9000! I actually do you understand why Thomas fans says Thomas and the magic railroad isn't as good as they remember it but to tell you the truth the Real reason why it failed in theaters worldwide is because there was the original uncut version of the film with an actual main proper villain named PT Boomer (played by Doug Lennox) which explains the reasons in the film that makes a lot more sense like why Peter Fonda is really sad about his magical engine and why Lilly goes to shining time station and things aren't going well on the island of sodor, but thanks to those Hollywood test audiences that destroyed Britt Allcroft's film she had to cut out PT Boomer because The test audience said he was too frightening which he really isn't that frightening at all. A lot of Thomas fans are working hard to support the petitions you can find on the Internet, ones at change.org restore the magic campaign and reawaken the magic thunderclap determined to see the directors cut of Thomas and the magic railroad release on the big screen worldwide and onto DVD and Blu-ray.
Rustydog9000! I think that the original version deserves to be released so that way it would be much better then the final version.
I agree with the see it yourself thing - I thought I'd hate Evil Dead 2 but turned out its now one of my favorite movies
to me i loved xmen apocalypse bet people said it was bland i was like a its good xmen movie b/c basically no wolverine, a strong cocky cool cyclops permanent deaths, sophia turner, a funny but not stupid nightcrawler and good villians
I always believe the score is actually somewhere between the rotten tomatoes score and the flixster want to see score
It’s True but I do agree with you about the Critics. The critics are very rude to the other movies that they don’t like.
It just peoples opinion. What ever they think about the movies. The Rotten Tomato’s Rating Isn’t Much Of a Big deal for a Movie. Everybody thinks that movies were bad. That actually means the movies that they hate and make Rude Opinions. If everyone thinks that movies were great. That means the movies that they love :)
The Rotten Tomato’s is not Bad but it’s just everybody’s else’s Opinion.
What ever each movie has 10% it can be Good or Bad. Like storylines
Like I said The Rotten Tomato’s just doesn’t Really matter!
No matter Everyone else loves a movie :-)
Talk about the Farce Awakens
I didn’t even know people don’t read each reviews. I read a majority of them earlier before many more reviews come up
I like Rotten Tomatoes as a general idea of what other people think of the movie, but I don't use it as my sole judging factor
While a lack of patience is definitely a part of this, it may also have to do with some people having a lack of free time and or money. They want to make absolutely sure they go see a good film because they don't want to waste anything.
I never used rotten tomatoes like that, but I have seen those who do and it can get annoying. Also I didn't know you watch Lewtoons, and best use of the chart guys ever.
Yes, yes you CAN smack me.
6/10 and 5/10 are same?I always though that 6/10 = "pretty good" and 5/10 = "this is pretty bad,not horrible but not good"
9:45 Does anyone want to see Animat and Lewtoons to crossover? (Lewtoon's icon is on the bottom right corner)
ALOT of films that have low ratings I enjoyed them.I give you some of the examples
Chasing Liberty-19%
Kate & Leopold-50%
The Amazing Spiderman 2-58%
Aquamarine:51%
While others are fresh
Tangled-90%
Enchanted- 93%
Cinderella(2015):84%
The Lion King-91%
Frozen:89%
Everyone is a critic at the end of the day. I think metacritic is WAY worse as they always have low ratings.For example Tangled is 90% in Rotten Tomatoes and in Metacritic its 70%.
I agree with ya Animat people should see a film for themselves and then let them decide whether or not the film is crap or not.
Though it's meant more as a joke, CinemaSins really annoy me as they make a couple of or a few good points and then spend the rest of the video being silly and people use those videos as arguments for why movies are bad.
Another argument also annoys me. One I'd say is obviously is a flawed argument but the fact that people use it for every subject regardless of how many times you remind them it doesn't work annoys me. That argument being, 'I have lots of people agree with me therefore I'm right'. It's unbelievably childish yet people don't stop thinking it's a good argument.
Not to sound at all arrogant but I don't understand the way other people are in terms of wanting to know spoilers and get massively hyped for something. That leads people to either be inevitably disappointed ('Avengers: Age of Ultron') or buy fully into it regardless of how good it actually is ('Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens'). I just want to know whether I want to see something (which I decide based on trailers - and when I've seen enough trailers to know I want to see the movie, I won't watch more trailers). I don't want anything spoiled for me and while I do get excited for some movies, I remind myself before watching them that they could be bad and then I watch them objectively (obviously, no-one's perfect but you get my point). I think getting excited for things can be good. I watch trailers before their movies partly because I think it's good to get excited for things but so many people (as in, virtually everyone) take it way too far.
There are multiple movies with low percentages that I liked.
There were multiple movies with high percentages that I disliked, or just thought were mediocre.
Conjuring 2, for example, was a rather pedestrian horror movie that had little to offer. My sixteen-year-old sister and I were a bit bored in the cinema, and at one point she leaved over to me and muttered that she could be home watching anime. We thought it deserved about sixty or seventy percent at best, but it got far more.
Obviously, there is no justice and civilization is doomed.
In the first half of the 2010s, I greatly looked down on Disney live action movies and horror movies because they kept getting rotten ratings on Rotten Tomatoes.
Eeeeeyyyyyyy there's Boogie make cameo in the background!
Jeremy Irons' performance saved both "Batman v Superman" and "Justice League".
LegoManiac101/ScarAndFilThyFrankFTW4KidsFTL Not even his performance could save those films
Can you have a video on you're thoughts on live action Disney movie reboots?
.... But the chart says
They give kids movies a good rating as of a way of saying here is a movie that will shut up your kids for the next hr or 2. Comic movies get crap rating is there way of saying we already read the comics so we already know what's gonna happen in movie . Other movies it all depends who the pay to say what's good and what's bad
Tell that to the DC fanboys.
I loved cloudy k
Here's a better idea: Just ignore the critics and judge the movie based on your viewing of it. Who cares if a movie gets 100% or 0% on Rotten Tomatoes? What should matter at the end of the day is your opinion on it and yours alone.
He said that in the video.
WATCH BEFORE YOU COMMENT!!! :P
Here's the thing: I did watch the video but I got distracted with watching a movie on Netflix, so I probably didn't catch it.
Here's the thing though: we can't afford to see every single movie released just to figure out if we like it or not. So when you have to be choosy, it helps to have something that tells you that it isn't literal crap before you decide to spend your money on it. It can also bring to light some good movies you never would have thought about seeing before, thanks to some critical praise.
+Gravitynaut The best advice I could give is to find a handful of critics that you trust and have similar tastes to you. You don't have to agree with them on everything, but if they like/dislike a movie, it's probably a decent indicator as to whether or not you'll like the film.
just like videogames, the only way to see if it's good or not is to see it yourself.
Jam-frog35 That is so true.
Yes , it is a bad website, mainly because of the sheeple who give it such power and its incredible inaccuracy and arbitraness
On rotten tomatoes I ignore the tomato meter I listen to the audience like percentage or audience reviews
I blame the brains/eyes on those who despise the actual film despite finding the trailers awesome.
I'm not as bad as a lot of people are with this website but thanks to this video I'm going to try to be more open-minded when it comes to critics and reviews and analyzing the true potential of feature films. Thank you Matt
Great video, Mat. :)
I watched this 4 hours after it was uploaded!
Is it bad? No. Can it lead to bad things? Absolutely.
Dat fadora tho
film critics are not always right and if u go by rotten tomatoes to judge a movie then ur not that smart also film critics need to get a job their a person who opion who can persuade u to see it or persuade u not to
To me, IGN and Metacritic are WORSE! I mean, IGN considered the 2017 MLP movie worse than the Emoji Movie. It was even more generous to the Emoji Movie but saying it was just misguided and seriously bashed MLP the movie by saying it was frustating cliche and awful. I was all like "How?" As for Metacritic, look at the reviews of UHF. No wonder Weird Al Yankovic was in a slump for 3 years before getting back to his roots with his "Off the Deep End" album.
Well Balto has 50% and Lion King 2 has 33% so yes it is bad.
I guess the gist of this is that Rotten Tomatoes is the Wikipedia of the movie-review world. You can't cite either one in an argument.