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change from imdb to RT

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I had a thought after reading this

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2017/8 ... er-get-out

I wonder if its time to move away from imdb.com ratings and instead use Rottentomatoes as a gauge for how good a film is.

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I much prefer Metacritic. Rotten Tomatoes is a shill for the studios and it often punishes independent films. Metacritic cuts out the crap.

And I believe Baywatch failed more due to audiences not wanting to see Zac Efron play a bro again rather than reviews.
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I would vote against using RT. In some instances it works, but it really shows it's flaws when there are middling reviews. Take Pirates for example, basically all reviews were 'the best one since the first, but that's not saying much' yet it has the worst ratings of all the films. So either this one should have had a higher score or the previous ones should have had lower ones.

I like IMDb, i know there are instances of people hating on certain films and rating it down, but even those usually don't make such a huge difference once actual reviews come in.

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undeadmonkey wrote:I would vote against using RT. In some instances it works, but it really shows it's flaws when there are middling reviews. Take Pirates for example, basically all reviews were 'the best one since the first, but that's not saying much' yet it has the worst ratings of all the films. So either this one should have had a higher score or the previous ones should have had lower ones.

I like IMDb, i know there are instances of people hating on certain films and rating it down, but even those usually don't make such a huge difference once actual reviews come in.
Completely agree with all of this. IMDb isn't perfect, but I feel like it works better than a review aggregate site for the purposes of our game.
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Yeah, I don't like it either. IMDb isn't perfect, but RT can take a middling film and make it 20% or 70% which causes wild swings because it's based on whether you liked a film and not how much you like it. Also it's based on what (mostly) 30-60 year old white guys think.

I did have an idea for a Box Office RT or Metacritic game where you multiply box office times the percent on those sites.
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Re: change from imdb to RT

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You guys are trying to make my job harder??

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No system we come up with is perfect, but honestly, I still favor the the imdb ratings. (And I'm not just saying that.)
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