Most people, myself included, can agree that Inside Out is good. It currently has a 98% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes with an 89% audience score, a 94 score on Metacritic with an 8.7 user score, and an 8.3 rating on IMDb. With all that said, how come on IMDb, the negative reviews for Inside Out are more popular than the positive reviews? I don't get it.
shareIt baffles me too. Other than the argument "That's the problem with IMDb reviews", I absolutely have no idea.
shareBecause people are @ssholes.
shareI think every movie on IMDb has more negative than postiive reviews and negative ones are more popular.
shareWell to stay in the films terms: their Angry emotion problably took over the main control while yelling "I'll shown them!!!" and shooting flames out of it's head. ;)
I enjoyed the movie a lot (8/10, maybe even 9/10) and upvoted a few positive reviews.
Is there about 10000 employees that work for this rotten tomatoes website that might lose a job if they do not pimp this website as some authority on movies?
Crap is ridiculous. Why is it that this crap is somehow the authority on anything?
Growing up with Siskel and Ebert and even I thought they needed to relax but the reference to what that ridiculous website says is unbelievable.
So the thought process is, if I go and see a movie and enjoy it and rotten tomatoes disagrees I am somehow supposed to change my mind about what I saw or if I am excited about seeing a movie and the trailers look good and I ready to see it and rotten tomatoes says it sucks I am just supposed to base my thoughts on their reviews? is that the thought process here?
My point in all of this is why should I give two craps about anything a bunch of hacks on a website say? Even my ramblings?
Sometimes, a person will read a review for a movie and find that the reviewer had the very same opinion of the movie as that person did. That person might then go on to check out other reviews written by the same reviewer on other films that they've both seen. In that case, if the person finds that the reviewer has the same taste in films as her/ him, then that person might decide to use future reviews (from that same reviewer) as a guide to whether or not it's likely that the person in question will like an upcoming movie or not.
That's one potential scenario; just off the top of my head, for why someone might take heed of a reviewers input.
Generally, people like to read reviews to get an idea of the plot/ theme/ genre/ setting/ etc... of a movie, to see if it's a plot/ theme/ genre/ setting/ etc... that they generally find interesting. Some people might read something in a review -for example- such as Inception, where most critics claimed that there was a lot/ too much exposition and decide based on that, that they'll like/ hate the movie for that alone (though in the case of Inception, all the exposition except for on part in the very first scene, was handled beautifully. The movie/ mini-series Masada is another example of very well handled exposition).
But I digress... The point is that people do not go to reviewers to be told what to think. They go to reviewers to find out what the reviewer thought and to decide if -based on the thoughts of a reviewer- they think that they'll be able to enjoy such a movie. For example: Bone Tomahawk. The reviews I read mostly said that it was a very slow paced movie where nothing much happens until the last half hour. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the movie and personally didn't agree with any such reviews. I rather felt that the pacing was appropriate and that the feel of the movie was that they were building up to something. When they finally got there, it was worth the build-up.
Anyway, those are a few examples off the top of my head why people read reviews.
It's the same logic, I guess, as to why people read comments...
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I've often suspected that people who decide they don't like a film feel a need to validate their view by voting down positive reviews while those who like it look on negative reviews as merely another opinion that they don't happen to agree with and don't vote it up or down. If my reviews get marked down I figure it at least means it wasn't ignored/unseen
shareI've often suspected that people who decide they don't like a film feel a need to validate their view by voting down positive reviews while those who like it look on negative reviews as merely another opinion that they don't happen to agree with and don't vote it up or down. If my reviews get marked down I figure it at least means it wasn't ignored/unseen
Lots of people love being contrarian, disliking things that are popular. The same happened to Mad Max Fury Road, a film widely considered to be the best action film made in recent years. It has tonnes of 1 star reviews that are put front and centre for some reason. Probably something to do with IMDb's algorithm.
share"for some reason"
I'm sure it's different from why the same thing happened to The Force Awakens and Ghostbusters. Gotta be something totally different.
Sir, does this mean that Ann-Margret's not coming?
And yeah, it's not so much "IMDB's algorithm" as it is that the haters got here early and gang-downvoted every positive review and upped the 1-star reviews so that they would rise to the front page and it would be very hard to rectify it.
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