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by pmoriarty 2770 days ago
I don't care about ratings -- IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, or random film critic -- it doesn't matter. They're all useless to me (often worse than useless, as so many people have such different tastes from me).

The only people who's opinions I care about are friends and family who I know well and who's tastes I share, or who at least know my tastes and can recommend to me something they think I might like.

Apart from that, what I do to find more films to watch is try to see what other films directors and writers I like have made, or do web searches for combinations of films that I like to see what similar films turn up or to occasionally find people with similar tastes to my own and then pick through their favorite movie lists.

2 comments

You need to find a reviewer you trust and pay attention to them only.

I find RT works great if you understand that professional reviewers rate movies in the context of their genre. So, a Hollywood action flick may be 80%, but if you don't like that genre, you're still not gonna like it.

Sure, but this was not a response to my post.