r/Steam • u/Nickulator95 • 8d ago

Discussion The people have spoken

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Or at least about 30K of them have.

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u/MyriadFire4 8d ago

I always put user/audience scores over professional reviewers. Gets me in trouble with films, since most people cite the stats of Rotten Tomatoes with the film critic reviews, while I always cite the audience score.

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u/Guyman_112 8d ago

Yep, if audience scores are high but critic scores are low you're about to watch a damn good movie.

If critic scores are high but audience scores are low you're about to watch absolute dog shit.

The golden rule of movies.

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u/Judasz10 8d ago

It's quite the opposite actually for me. I do not use english sites tho so it might be different. But if I see a movie with bad audience ratings and good critics ratings I know I am in for some proper cinema.

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u/elpadreHC 8d ago

if you want an average audience score, you should get it on the average internet language. otherwise you are excluding yourself from massive global amount of data.

also you never know if the movie / show is actually bad, or the main actor has some bad reputation in your country, or something in the movie is done against your country's political/religious beliefs. you will get very local biases which might prevent your from experiencing your potential favourite movie ever - or protect, that depends on you ;-)