the percentages arn't about "love it or hate it" it doesnt mean 60% loved it, and the rest hated it. It just means the average of everyone felt it was a mediocre flick, which it was.
You seem to be confused about what an 'average percentage' actually is.
60% doesn't mean that most people gave it a 6 out of 10 score.
Perhaps you're looking for the ‘average rating’ instead, which is also featured on rottentomatoes and by the way also has a 6.0/10 overall score. If the percentage was calculated in a similar way around each unique individual score, it would take only one extremely negative rating to significantly bring down the average among a certain number of critics. Easy example:
Ten people, seven of them give the movie a rating of 6 and three give it a 1, summed up together and divided among the number of critics, we get an average rating of 4.5.
The 4.5 does not accurately represent the people who gave the film a positive rating, nor does the 5.5 that gave it a negative one.
That is used only to rate the movie in quality, which was one of Cmill’s points but one that I, if you’ll notice, did not address. If that’s the only point you want to make then I would agree with you, however, I’ll spare you the calculations and say that this thread’s average rating is a 7.3. If you’re saying that the movie is much more mediocre than that, I’ll leave you to question the reliability of this average on your own.
But if you ask me, movies, like all forms of art, cannot be objectified with an estimate.
That is why I was using the percentage system, which strictly deals with the black and white number of positive and negative responses, not ratings. And that’s precisely why Spider-Man 3 got a whole 10% more people who liked it than the ones who didn’t.
after all more 60% on here thought it was an 8 or below. while only 21% gave it a perfect score.
And now you’re contradicting yourself.
It is sound to say that a 10-6 score is a positive rating, while a 5-1 is a negative one.
So while the average rating here is 7.3, the average percentage is a high 80.49%.
And where are these extremes of ‘love’, ‘hate’ or ‘perfect’ coming from?
A movie can never be 60% perfect or 60% loved. That’s why it’s called an ‘average’.
It’s only a statistic to give the illusion of objectivity. I don't rely on it to see how much I should like a film or not. I only check on it to see how many people think the same as me.
I can guarantee you if we conducted a new poll, the poll would read quite differently as well
Why so confident?
I myself am not convinced. It could go either way.
But even if it would turn out with a worse rating than this one, it is only an average on the current state of this part of the SHH community. The rottentomatoes and metacritic ones will always be there and the best estimate is an indefinite one.
