Anyone else feel like the dam is about to break on a sacred cow?
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I don't ever go by the "professional" critic reviews. I look at the IMDB user ratings, and then read through the review comments by "regular" people. The only thing that bothers me is that no matter the quality of a movie, there will be THOUSANDS of people who rate it a 10, causing the average to be moved up no matter what. So the real key is to look for the mode of the rating numbers. Unfortunately, an absolutely horrible move will STILL show up with an average of 6 or even 7. It takes an average of at least 8 for it to stand out as a really good movie that MAY be worth paying for at a theater. I think the movie studios probably have bots that give their movies a 10 on the site, because there is no way a movie like "Tango and Cash" could EVER realistically be rated 10. I think in the history of movies there are probably less than 50 that should be rated 10, maybe less.
Yeah. I have found Rotton Tomatoes to be more accurate. They don't even give a user rating average on IMDB do they?
Yes, an average rating is listed, which is why I look at the histogram of the ratings. You can almost always dismiss the 10s, because they seem to be from bots, and just look at the general distribution, but because of the effects of bots, there is usually a very narrow range of votes, such that a really good movie might show a mode at 8, and a not so good movie a mode at 7, with a really terrible movie showing a mode at 6. I read the "regular people" reviews to get the best indication of whether it is worth watching, particularly if that review has a bunch of past movies they have reviewed, and if their taste aligns with mine, I would consider their review a good gage of whether I would want to watch it. I have found, for me, that if it is an R-rated comedy, I'm going to be pretty turned off by it (it will be so full of F-bombs and generally degenerate behavior that I just cant see past that to enjoy whatever comedy may be there). R-rated action movies are a different matter.
Interdasting. Do you have a link to the average rating for audience listed? Or the histogram?
Here's the histogram for "Tango and Cash" (1989), a movie you would probably be mad about paying for at a theater, but is moderately entertaining for free :)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098439/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_rt
You can search any movie on imdb, and then when you select it, click the average rating box which will open the histogram and a breakdown of average scores for various age groups, foreign vs us, and men vs women.