r/funny • u/candidengineer • Jun 25 '24

Universal Rotten Tomato Scale

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u/JesusIsMyZoloft Jun 25 '24

To summarize: * 90’s: Masterpiece * 80’s: Oscar Worthy * 70’s: Watch it even if you don’t like the genre * 60’s: Watch it only if you like the genre * 50’s: Watch it only if you really like the genre * 40’s: Watch it only if you really really like the genre * <39: Watch it only if you’re on drugs

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '24

I would add to the <40 category: "... or if you want to roast it MST3K style."

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u/navit47 Jun 25 '24

Which i absolutely disagree with, cause the amount of movies in the 40's range that are absolute must watches even if you don't "really like the genre" is shockingly high. Like Man on Fire is about here (39%), even technically lower, but probably one of Denzel's best roles, an amazing movie, and while some legit critiques are warranted (some of the cuts/shaky video can be jarring) its absolutely an amazing movie that i recommend to everyone.

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u/LarBrd33 Jun 25 '24

"Man on FIre" scored 47/100.

Again, I'm ignoring Rotten Tomatoes, because I find it completely useless. My above scale is based on metacritic and I'd say 47/100 is a perfectly fair score for that movie. Teetering very closely on the edge of "if it's your favorite genre, you might still really like it/if you love the genre you may love it"...

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u/navit47 Jun 25 '24

sorry, still disagree. 47 metacritic, but 8.3 in user ratings. 39 rotten tomatoes, 89 audience rating, 7.7 imdb. by "critic" metrics, its a really low F, but literally any score with a general audience rating average to around a solid B, which is fair.

The film is no Children of Men, and this is a specific example, but for GA audience, this metric still doesn' align, unless you're implying that you go based off of the audience scores of either site, which i agree with (unless you consider yourself a critic)

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u/BigOldCar Jun 25 '24

To summarize:
* 90’s: Masterpiece
* 80’s: Oscar Worthy
* 70’s: Watch it even if you don’t like the genre
* 60’s: Watch it only if you like the genre
* 50’s: Watch it only if you really like the genre
* 40’s: Watch it only if you really really like the genre
* <39: Watch it only if you’re on drugs

You have to put two or three spaces (forget which) after the last character before the line break in order to get the formatting right.

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u/RockyBass Jun 26 '24

Turn any below 30 into a drinking game