[aoeusnth1]

OP: good movies are better than bad movies. Replies: you buffoon, you actual clown. How dare you value good things more than bad things.

I can’t take this knee jerk response seriously. Why wouldn’t good movies be more worthwhile than bad movies? How is this even controversial?

[jazzyjackson]

Because whether a movie is good or not is not an objective, one dimensional thing that can be represented by a score on rotten tomatoes?

[crazygringo]

It's not perfect, but it's a very strong and useful signal.

Never in my life have I seen something with 98% and thought, well that was a crap movie.

And never in my life have I seen something with 35% and thought, that was amazing!

It's more in the 75-90% range where you have to consider the "dimensionality" of the thing, like whether it's a genre you like, or which individual reviewers match your tastes more precisely.

[jazzyjackson]

Yeah I guess you're right, even the "so bad its good" movies get points for being campy and the love it / hate it reviews average out.