re: Rotten Tomatoes - 110 Best SciFi movies of all time

First movie has to be a joke. Existenz? This is the worst shite ever made.

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I would just role with these

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I think that ET is overrated but that's a strong list.

Rotten Tomatoes percentage score does not rate the quality of movie, so I have no clue why they made this list. It’s just gonna piss people off (and rightfully so) that don’t know what the percentage score actually means

It has a fricking hunger games movie over inception.

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Gravity at #4 and Interstellar at #92? Seriously?

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Yea, that's what really caught my eye. Gravity is a good movie but it's not even in the same league as Interstellar in terms of SciFi greatness.

Alien should have been higher. It's definitely in my top five for sure.

I also thought 12 Monkeys, Moon, Sunshine, Ex Machina, Solaris (1976) and 2001: A Space Odyssey should have been ranked higher.

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Exhibit A of how critics have recently fawned over and loved average to below average movies...especially the blockbusters.

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That’s not what the RT scores mean

A movie with 95% can have an average rating of 7.2/10
While a movie with 85% can have an average rating of 8.2/10. A significant difference

Giving a movie a 6/10 counts as a positive review. So a 6/10 counts the same as a 10/10 when just talking about the percent score

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Giving a movie a 6/10 counts as a positive review. So a 6/10 counts the same as a 10/10 when just talking about the percent score

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Well then, they're way too "positive."

For a lot of crap movies...and "critics" seem to be way less discerning these days.

Now did independant critics stop taking criticism seriously or did they stop being independant?

There's too much love-fest or lowering the bar or paid schill...the blockbusters way too easily impress the critics.

"The movie sucks but it was fun...most explosions you will see in a movie this year! Go see it, you won't be disappointed!"

I'm not saying movie critics have to be curmugdeons like Pauline Kael but we've gone from critical analysis to everything is great, GOAT, and fun is all that matters in movie-making.

And what's fun about watching a terrible movie? Critics defense of TLJ was that it was so much fun. Fun is enjoyable by definition. What was enjoyable about that?

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That’s not what the RT scores mean

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From what I remember, Rotten Tomatoes simply is a binary "watchable/not watchable" score. 5.1/10 = 10/10 for scoring purposes.

In this light, almost any modern blockbuster with good FX and a tie to fame (ie, any new Star Wars movie) should be scored highly. It's part of pop culture, and the visuals alone make it "worth a look". Which is all RT determines.

That list is complete shite.

at having The Last Jedi that high.