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I am having some trouble understanding various movie ratings online, mostly imdb and rottentomatoes. I hope you will help me understand how ratings work so it will be easier for me to find movies i might enjoy. I will give some examples of movies from natural disaster genre that got me lately. I mostly ignore science as its sci-fi:
2012 (2009) - imdb 5.8, tomatometer 39%, audience score 47%
San Andreas (2015) - imdb 6.1, tomatometer 48%, audience score 52%
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) - imdb 6.4, tomatometer 45%, audience score 50%
Moonfall (2022) - imdb 5.1, tomatometer 35%, audience score 70%
How i ranked them (ignore this part if ur in a hurry):
So how to properly understand the ranking. For me, 2012 is ways above other 3, moonfall is ways below other 3. Yet judging by imdb, 2012 is second worst, by tomato meter san andreas is best and by audience score, 2012 is worst and moonfall is by far the best. If i only picked 1 movie out of those 4, depending on which rating i read, i would choose to watch moonfall or san andreas, which in either case, would be a terrible choice since i ranked them 2012, day after tomorrow, san andreas and moonfall.
How do you guys pick a movie to watch using rating system? If you read reviews for all 4 movies, they are mostly negative, yet, i enjoyed 3 out of 4 movies very very much. Maybe it would be better to use some kind of system that would say, ok, if you liked 2012, u will probably also like day after tomorrow ? Does any such system exist that is good ?
2012 (2009) - imdb 5.8, tomatometer 39%, audience score 47%
San Andreas (2015) - imdb 6.1, tomatometer 48%, audience score 52%
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) - imdb 6.4, tomatometer 45%, audience score 50%
Moonfall (2022) - imdb 5.1, tomatometer 35%, audience score 70%
How i ranked them (ignore this part if ur in a hurry):
WARNING: "My subjective view of the 4 movies, only my personal opinion" spoilers below
2012: Absolutely amazing. The carnage is out of this world. Was funny how they always got saved by inches on their plane or on their car, but its ok. Main guy character was likeable, sort of a "loser", humble, real anti hero guy. I loved the ex husbant vs current husbant dialogue, flying scenes were funny. The Russian guy was amazingly funny and his 2 children absolutely despicable. Even the crazy Woody Harrelson character was likable considering i usualy dont like those forced "comedy" guys in movies. 1 of my favourite movies.
San Andreas: I did like the destruction, im a sucker for natural disaster movies. I did like the story. Acting was incredibly bad in my opinion. Dwayne ruined the movie for me, its like they took someone directly from WWE, caricature of itself. Its a personal preference obviously and i know hes a very popular actor that sells theater tickets, but for me it ruined the whole experience. Wife was horrible and i didnt much like that daughter and british guy thing. I much preferred 2012 where movie didnt revolve around a single person. But it was still good watch due to sheer destruction, though obviously much smaller in scale compared to 2012 where it was basicaly extinction event.
The Day After Tomorrow: first 2 times i watched it it was absolutely amazing. Only after reading reviews, the 3rd time i watched it, i noticed lots of forced politics into it, which usualy i dont like, but here it didnt bother me. Main character was likeable, humble science guy. Not a big fan of his kid, he looks wierd, but i did like him and that girl and their thing. Obviously, after watching 2012 and San Andreas where buildings collapse like toys, special effects werent as special as they seemed the first and second time i watched it. Story is as good as you can expect from this kind of movies, im in it more for the destruction and like that actors are in the second row without anyone being such a strong character that the movie revolves around him.
Moonfall: after watching a bit over half the movie, this thing is horrible in every way possible. It feels like there are 30 second segments put together 1 after another with no point. The whole moon crashing into earth seems like no one really cares much, like, we will try to stop it but only after we have our afternoon tea. That comedy janitor is not very likeable. The main character is actualy likeable but halle berry's performance is horrible in my opinion. Movie didnt really make it feel like things are bad. In 2012, honestly i was on my toes the whole time even though it was the second time i watched the movie.
San Andreas: I did like the destruction, im a sucker for natural disaster movies. I did like the story. Acting was incredibly bad in my opinion. Dwayne ruined the movie for me, its like they took someone directly from WWE, caricature of itself. Its a personal preference obviously and i know hes a very popular actor that sells theater tickets, but for me it ruined the whole experience. Wife was horrible and i didnt much like that daughter and british guy thing. I much preferred 2012 where movie didnt revolve around a single person. But it was still good watch due to sheer destruction, though obviously much smaller in scale compared to 2012 where it was basicaly extinction event.
The Day After Tomorrow: first 2 times i watched it it was absolutely amazing. Only after reading reviews, the 3rd time i watched it, i noticed lots of forced politics into it, which usualy i dont like, but here it didnt bother me. Main character was likeable, humble science guy. Not a big fan of his kid, he looks wierd, but i did like him and that girl and their thing. Obviously, after watching 2012 and San Andreas where buildings collapse like toys, special effects werent as special as they seemed the first and second time i watched it. Story is as good as you can expect from this kind of movies, im in it more for the destruction and like that actors are in the second row without anyone being such a strong character that the movie revolves around him.
Moonfall: after watching a bit over half the movie, this thing is horrible in every way possible. It feels like there are 30 second segments put together 1 after another with no point. The whole moon crashing into earth seems like no one really cares much, like, we will try to stop it but only after we have our afternoon tea. That comedy janitor is not very likeable. The main character is actualy likeable but halle berry's performance is horrible in my opinion. Movie didnt really make it feel like things are bad. In 2012, honestly i was on my toes the whole time even though it was the second time i watched the movie.
So how to properly understand the ranking. For me, 2012 is ways above other 3, moonfall is ways below other 3. Yet judging by imdb, 2012 is second worst, by tomato meter san andreas is best and by audience score, 2012 is worst and moonfall is by far the best. If i only picked 1 movie out of those 4, depending on which rating i read, i would choose to watch moonfall or san andreas, which in either case, would be a terrible choice since i ranked them 2012, day after tomorrow, san andreas and moonfall.
How do you guys pick a movie to watch using rating system? If you read reviews for all 4 movies, they are mostly negative, yet, i enjoyed 3 out of 4 movies very very much. Maybe it would be better to use some kind of system that would say, ok, if you liked 2012, u will probably also like day after tomorrow ? Does any such system exist that is good ?
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