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Re:Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings by k__ on Friday October 16, 2015 @06:02AM (#10398378)
My experience has shown that the only movies worth looking at are rated > 7/10 anything below is mostly crap.

But this only works for movies that are mainstream BUT not too real blockbusters. Because stuff like the fast and the furious or transformers gets good ratings anyways.

But I use such ratings only to get something light on a boring evening.

Mostly I watch ArtHaus stuff and don't look at those ratings.

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Re:Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings by throwaway7767 on Friday October 16, 2015 @06:21AM (#10398451)
My own experience is that there is no correlation between online rankings and my own enjoyment.

I enjoy some higly-rated popular movies, and I hate many of them with a passion. Many of my favorite movies, which I would consider truly great, are somewhere around 4-6 on IMDb/metacritic because they don't have mainstream appeal.

Suggestion engines like NetFlix or Spotify don't seem to do any better at predicting what I like.

There's no accounting for taste.

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Re:Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings by cJ0th on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:33PM (#10401831)
That's exactly my experience. What's more, I find that people tend to rate a comedies more positively than movies from other genres.
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