Who gives a film it's star rating?

[Anonymous User]

Just watch Basmati Blues, today premier which NOWTV have given a 4.5 star rating.

Who rates this needs sacking.

It's a terrible film loading with racial stereotypes, poorly acted and dire songs.

4.5 stars it isn't!!!

[Anonymous User]

Can't give you an answer BUT it only got 3.8 on imdb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131728/

[Anonymous User]

@Anonymous User

Hi, we use the Rotten Tomatoes score, which is an aggregate of a user and critical reviews.

[NowMonkey]

Rotton Tomtoes is a joke for reviews, no one takes that site seriuolsy anymore, you need a new way to rate films, there is too many low budget rubish films with 4 or 5 star ratings.

[Anonymous User]

If you use rotten tomatoes rating why does justice league have 4 stars - it only has 40% 

[Anonymous User]

I don't know how they rate their movies but they are usually giving stuff they show over-inflated ratings if you compare the same movies on the main rating/review sites. Far too many of the films nowadays are just over-hyped rubbish.

[Andy]

@Anonymous User @Anonymous User I'd guess they use the user rating rather than the critic rating (which personally I prefer but I guess it depends on your view of the reliability of film critics) - so for instance in the case of Justice League it has a user rating average of 3.9/5 currently. I don't think they update the ratings as they change tho, but could be wrong as I never pay much attention to them - if I like the look of a film I'll try it anyway. 

[Anonymous User]

@Andy

I also tend to use my own judgement on how good or bad a film is.

I've chosen not to watch movies in the past purely on the rating it has been given. When I've been short of things to watch and have decided to go back over some of them I've found them to be quite good on viewing. Of course the opposite has happened often enough too where I've been looking forward to a highly rated movie only to turn it off half way through because I didn't enjoy it.

I've generally tended to get a feel for a movie or tv series from user reviews rather than the views of critics but then again everyones tastes are different. 

[Andy]

@Anonymous User Yeah, I agree, I'm a big horror fan and NOW TV has plenty of low-budget offerings. Whilst most are pretty throwaway there's always a hidden gem or two amongst them that are fun to fish out. Personally I prefer IMDb to Rotten Tomatoes for digging out more info, but like you say at the end of the day we are all different!

At least with subscription services you're not spending money renting or buying individual films only to find they are a turkey when you sit down to watch them!

[caseyb1993]

I tend to go by a minimum of 2 stars myself. 

My childhood favourite Thumbelina (which is still one of my favourites to this day) on here was panned by critics at the time it was released, yet NOWTV has it at 4 stars.

So it just goes to show, not everyone goes by what the critics say. 🙂

[Anonymous User]

I was wondering how the lord of the rings, return of the king was only given a 4.5 star rating when the fellowship and two towers were given 5 star ratings, return of the king won 11 Oscars and had the best critics reviews of the 3 films?

[Anonymous User]

Are you sure that you’re still using Rotten Tomatoes? The Silencing which has 5 stars on Now TV has only 17% on RT website?

[Anonymous User]

Agree the ratings are pretty useless on NowTV (although still not as bad as Amazon Prime!), the descriptions are too short and often waste most of text telling us what previous films the actors have been in and little about what THIS film is actually about. 

Last night i watched one with a 4.5 rating and it was 'make a movie for the sake of it' garbage, (cant even remember its name it was that interesting).

I just watched "The Switch" rated 2.5 and it was actually really good and actually had a story, (not my usual genre at all and wouldnt have selected it normally but my dinner was ready and couldnt be bothered to search).

Why cant your customer base rate the movies, surely more relevant than the current system which is pretty hopeless (and review the movies descriptions, so they prioritise WHAT THE FILM IS ABOUT). 

I think im going to start searching for all the 2 star rated films based on this.