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b_b  ·  2720 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How important is crowdsourced feedback to you?

    I'm a Rotten Tomatoes snob.

Dude. I like you enough that I'm going to ignore this comment after a slight shaming, but I can't let it slide. Crowdsourcing is perhaps the worst way of deciding what's good (even when the crowd is critics--especially when the crowd is critics, who are useless jerkoffs who spend time sitting in judgement). By this measure Brittany Spears was the best musician of 1997 (or whenever) because everyone wanted to fuck a 16 yr old in tight red vinyl. Crowds are full or morons, and aggregating a crowd's opinion guarantees nothing but mediocrity. Rotten Tomatoes is the internet version of actual human garbage and raw sewage.

As an aside, if you want to know how worthless critics are generally, go back and read reviews of 2001 from 1967 and then from decades later, after time had proven it ot be among the greatest movies of all time. Many of the same critics changed their minds miraculously. Critics generally are scum. I except Roger Ebert from that group, because he was a very talented writer who wrote on many topics with great insight, and even when he hated a movie he was very good at putting it in context. I would recommend never reading a review until after you've seen a movie, because perhaps you'll gain some better insight. You're only making yourself seem foolish by using the opinion of others as a proxy for your own.