Well that was great. Let's see what people on the internet think!

Or you watch something that you thought was just awful and you find out that people on the internet loved it…

I have a close friend who has absolutely no taste in movies. He likes everything! I've learned to stop listening to his feedback for movies, because it could be the worst movie ever made and he's like "wow, that was such an amazing experience!". I kind of envy his state of ignorant bliss.

Look at the kinds of movies that people do like and it all makes sense

"Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer" -Richard Sanchez

I had a friend at school who did this. At the cinema, after the movie was over, he would be one of the loudest voices in the group, talking about how awesome the movie was, how it's going to do so well at the box office and how he couldn't wait for the next one to come out.

The very next day, he'd come in armed with research on all the plot holes and ways the movie failed from other critics, and then just lay into the movie as if it was the worst movie he'd seen and how it was a waste of his money.

We would point out how annoying he was for convincing himself that he hated it. The only opinion that counted was the one right after the movie ended; that's the best and most honest review one could give. He kept on doing it. It wasn't cool, Chris.

Who cares, as long as you liked it?

My wife and I went into The Northman blind, and we honestly loved the experience. I don't give a shit whether or not it's realistic or historical accurate on any front. It was like John Wick with Norse mythology. Just an intense and barbaric ride from start to finish. I was genuinely surprised to learn how universally disliked it was. But people are out there buying tickets to 9 Fast 9 Furious 9, so I don't exactly value the reviews of opinions of strangers.

Stop basing your opinions on what other people like. I've never experienced such a wide range of media since I cut out sites like Rottentomatoes, Letterbox, Rateyourmusic, and stopped watching "review" youtubers.

I've had the opposite problem.

Take... Interstellar. I watched it. It was pretty and great around track. But the science, plot, and interactions were pretty awful.

Little did I know that for the rest of human time I would be reading about what a Master piece it is and that the internet just can't get enough interstellar.

Sometimes I wonder if there's another movie with the same name. Because I can't believe I'm the only one with a working logic center who watched this movie.

Rotten tomatos had Interstellar listed as 70% fresh, the week it come out.

Thr "critics" called the characters half baked.

I was so stoked for that movie i ignored it. And im so glad I did.

relevant xkcd

I don't care what anyone says, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is one of the best movies of all time.

Broke: Wahhhh everyone hates the movie I liked. They are all wrong and stupid.

Woke: Yeah that movie was crap. I loved it!

I have the opposite problem. Everyone I know loves a movie, and I think it's shit. Looking at you, Donnie Darko.

Why is that embarrassing? Feels good to break from borg mentality. Means it spoke to you in away it didn't for others. Fly your freak flag.

Me with Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

Maybe the movie you liked has a trans character or female hero and got review bombed

I have just learned to accept that if I enjoy the movie watching experience and feel it was worth my time, it doesn't really matter what others think. That doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the film in the slightest. I may be curious why people disagree though, at the very least.

Movies don't always have to be a slam dunk or a masterpiece. I watched the detective pikachu movie on edibles and had no clue what any of the plot was but I loved every minute because the visuals were stellar and something I'd wanted to see as a kid. The Ryan Reynolds shit had me mega confused lol

Even if I didn't like a movie, at least I have an experience to share (more applies to watching with someone else) and something to discuss and keep my mind occupied for a bit on something that is low-stakes at the end of the day.

Even if I absolutely do not like a movie at all, at least all I'm out on is a little time and maybe money; and maybe I can bitch to a friend if they've seen it.

Ratings in general are heavily biased. For example, critics have a very different point of view from most viewers. And even the typical non-critic who goes on sites to rate movies isn't the average viewer either. People like that tend to over-analyze every detail and try to look for a deeper meaning in the works. But that doesn't correlate with your enjoyment of something.

I think there are some movies where your first impression when you walk out of the theater is going to be very different than your impression once you've had a couple of days to think.

Speaking of divisive movies, for the people here who watched it, what's your honest assessment of "Babylon"? Just curious.

Rotten Tomatoes is one of the worst rating systems out there. I use IMDB, and even then I take ratings with a grain of salt.

not a movie, but a video game.
call of duty black ops 3. (no spoilers, in case anyone is still to play it.)

during my playthrough i was like:

• start the game
• the flashing text before the mission is way too fast to read. let's record it and play it slowly. huh...intersting.
• this is weird... why is this exactly THAT way that it has never been done before and doesn't make sense to do that way in general?
• this is weird... why do they mention THIS exactly? is that a mcguffin/chekhov's gun?
• this is weird... funny that they display this character how they handle their specific, unusual situation...
• this is weird... the story starts to become awkwardly surrealistic...
• reach the finale... i know there's more to it but i took so long to finish the game that i forgot all the clues, so i don't QUITE understand the meaning
• insert some hours of googling/yt explanations, and there's the big "OOOOOOOH! that's a brilliant display of what's happening to the main character and how it's described in real life!"-moment.
• realization that everyone hates it either because they didnt understand what happened and think it's the most random thing ever or because they understood what happened and think it's lame. sadge.

Me with Event Horizon lmao, I love that movie!!

You're allowed to like whatever you want to like. 🤷

I long ago swore off taking overall consensus as a good measure of anything. People are, in general, dumb, and that goes doubly so for anything that requires an iota of attention.

Also, letting other people decide for me what's good and what's not is just ridiculous. We can like what we like and that's fine.

I hate how polarizing any show or movie is now, and how to so many people on the internet, if it's not a 10/10 masterpiece, it's "unwatchable garbage".

A guy on here told me Castlevania was "awful, unwatchable crap" eventhough it's an across the board good show, a solid 8. But since it wasn't exactly what he wanted, it's a zero to him.

This happened to me when recently watching white chicks. Is it a good movie ? No, but how fun it is. I laughed my ass off in front of it. It was absurd.

The typical experience when you like horror movies... When horror movies get even slightly a better rating, they are often called "Mystery Thriller" or something else, just to avoid the Horror tag. Because somehow it's the law with movie critics that horror must have low rating.

fully agree, ratings don't seem to be jack to the actual movie content.

I actually enjoy reviews more when they disagree with me, sometimes I can even see where they are coming from (sometimes they kinda sound silly), but whatever they didn't like / did like is just not important for me.

but it kinda improves my movie experience, same feeling as when I go with friends to see a movie and we exchange opinions but when I watch them alone.

Very rarely a review has changed my opinion, but sometimes it showed me cool stuff, like the movie avatar tlab was "okay", but the bad reviews actually showed me how awesome the show was in comparison.

I watched the american version of solaris without knowing anything about it and I really love it. Then I looked it up online and it seems many people hate that movie which kinda surprised me but whatever I still like that movie.

Also I love the Silent Hill movie.

Sometimes hearing what other people think about a movie will give me a different perspective. Either better or worse.

This was Mortal Kombat Annihilation for me. It's been listed as one of the worst movie ever but I absolutely enjoyed as a kid and I still do.

Literally (ok, not literally) every black movie that I think is a classic has like 30% on Rotton Tomatoes

Not a movie, but for me this is Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2. The music, locations, voice acting and UI (visual and audio) are fantastic, while the gameplay and story were okay enough to not drag it all down. I still listen to the soundtrack and think about how smooth the menus were.

Meanwhile to the FF fandom these games are Satan shitting down your neck

I loved Valerian and the city of a thousand planets but I have never met anyone else who liked it, blows my mind

Entertainment is not a competition.

I have the opposite effect, popular movies seem bad to me, for the most part.

In high school, we had a movie review section in our student newspaper. The one time I read it was because they reviewed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. They said it was awful and Carey was boring. Haven’t taken media reviews seriously since.

I watched Keanu on Netflix and I came away thinking yeah that was a cool light hearted silly movie. I went and checked and the reviews and left being like yeah that movie was pretty shit.

I dont really watch movies because my attention span cannot focus on them, but all the books, all the video games, music, everything I'm into is everything that's considered bad. I try not to talk about pop culture because I'm completely ignorant about main stream stuff and I don't want to argue about why I like what I like. I hate being asked about myself because I spend most of my time with work and school and my very little free time reading, gaming and listening to music, but I don't want to talk about what I've been doing because I just don't want to defend myself or talk about why I like something. And even with some of the more popular stuff I like, I just want to enjoy it, I don't want to analyze it.

The Flash (2023) was a good movie, and there's nothing you can say to change my mind.

Not me, it's like my superpower. I can tell you if a movie is going to be a flop and panned by everyone within 15 seconds of watching the trailer.

Last Days on Mars was such a fun horror movie

This happens to me a lot. I'll watch something and really enjoy it only to find out it got terrible reviews. It's really annoying because it usually means the series I like all get cancelled after a couple of seasons.

I was so relieved when I found out that everyone else hated Mute too.

As a whole product, Its hard to tell how good media is in a contemporary sense. The more time passes, the more we know if it had that special existence.

Its also why I like internet reviews of older movies.

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Then so many people loved the leftovers.

In a world where Rings of fucking Power got made, and has people actually supporting that debasement of Tolkien's legacy, does it really matter anymore?

Often a sign of zero media literacy

This isn't a tweet from a white person

Why are all white people called Xiao these days