Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings

Re:Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings by kpmah on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:05AM (#10398044)

I love RT, but I think people misinterpret the percentage. It doesn't mean that the film was 95% 'good', it means there was a 95% chance you'd like the film and a 5% chance you'd dislike it based on a sampling of professional reviews.

Something to bear in mind is that a slight above mediocre film can have a 100% rating if it has wide appeal.

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Re:Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings by nrao123 on Friday October 16, 2015 @06:40AM (#10398499)

Here is a great article talking about the differences between RT & Metacritic: http://www.thecroakingfrog.com/blog/rotten-tomatoes-vs-metac...

I personally find that there are less misfires on a good Metacritic score.

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Re:Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings by chrismcb on Friday October 16, 2015 @02:32PM (#10401219)

I think you are the one that is misinterpreting the percentage. 95% means that 95% of the reviews were "positive." Of course it says nothing on whether you will like it or not, because it has no idea what you would like.

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Re:Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings by kpmah on Friday October 16, 2015 @05:12PM (#10402035)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)

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