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contestgamer said:
LuccaCardoso1 said:

Yeah sure because 100% of all journalists hate Trump and are dishonest enough to rate a movie based on political views instead of quality. Read one of the reviews, try to read one. You'll find out that the flaws of the movie surpass greatly just supporting Trump.

Ever heard of American Sniper? It's a movie that could very well be considered imperialistic and militaristic propaganda, and it was directed by Clint Eastwood, publicly a Republican. American Sniper has a Metascore of 72.

Ever heard of Elite Squad: The Enemy Within? It's a movie that glamorizes violence and is clearly right-leaning. Metascore: 71.

See how you can make a good movie defending right-oriented ideas? The thing is, Death of a Nation is not a good movie. Watch a PureFlix movie, you'll see how poorly made and poorly written they are. Those movies don't defend ideas with logical arguments, they try to brainwash people.

Bad movies dont get 1/100. they get 10, 20 or 30. This is a 1 due to political agendas.

Yes, they do. Chaos, Bio-Dome and The Singing Forest all got a 1/100, not because they have a political agenda but because they're pure trash.



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LuccaCardoso1 said:
contestgamer said:

Bad movies dont get 1/100. they get 10, 20 or 30. This is a 1 due to political agendas.

Yes, they do. Chaos, Bio-Dome and The Singing Forest all got a 1/100, not because they have a political agenda but because they're pure trash.

Are those 1's out of 100? The fact that there are 10's and 20's in the review list seems to mean that this is a 1/10 not a 1/100. For instance, the reviews for the movie in the OP average out to 7/100 and it would be difficult to skew the numbers so far through weighting the different sites to get the number as low as 1/100. 



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Torillian said:
LuccaCardoso1 said:

Yes, they do. Chaos, Bio-Dome and The Singing Forest all got a 1/100, not because they have a political agenda but because they're pure trash.

Are those 1's out of 100? The fact that there are 10's and 20's in the review list seems to mean that this is a 1/10 not a 1/100. For instance, the reviews for the movie in the OP average out to 7/100 and it would be difficult to skew the numbers so far through weighting the different sites to get the number as low as 1/100. 

Not really. Let's see who are the three publications that gave Death of a Nation a score higher than zero:

- Movie Nation: A 1-man blog-like site. A quick glance at the site will make you realize how small it is. It doesn't even have a Wikipedia article on it. 598,675th most accessed site in the world according to Alexa.

- Arizona Republic: The largest newspaper in Arizona, but still a newspaper (not focused in film-reviewing) and a local one. 6,911st most accessed site in the world according to Alexa.

- The Austin Chronicle: An alternative weekly newspaper distributed exclusively in a city with 950k people. 51,493rd in the Alexa list.

Now let's see who gave Death of a Nation a zero:

- RogerEbert.com: A site created by Roger Ebert, one of the most important film critics of all time. 9,832nd in the Alexa list.

- The Hollywood Reporter: Probably the most reputable Hollywood-specialized magazine. Was created 87 years ago and is currently part of the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, together with Billboard (I don't think I need to explain this one). 1,482nd in the Alexa list.

- Variety: Do I really need to explain Variety? It was founded 115 years ago and is the 1,425th most accessed site in the world according to Alexa.

- IndieWire: Probably the most influential publication focused on independent films. 3,299th in the Alexa list.

- The A.V. Club: Partially owned by Univision Communications, who also owns Kotaku. 2,033rd in the Alexa list.

 

 

I calculated what score Death of a Nation would have if Metacritic based their reviewer reputation on the Alexa list, dividing every ranking in the list by 1,425 (Variety's position) and then dividing the score they gave by the resulting number.

If Metacritic based their reviewer reputation on the Alexa list, Death of a Nation would have more or less a 1.28/100. So yes, it's very possible to get a 1/100 out of those reviews.

 

 

EDIT: Corrected my calculations.

Last edited by Lucca - on 07 August 2018

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LuccaCardoso1 said:
Torillian said:

Are those 1's out of 100? The fact that there are 10's and 20's in the review list seems to mean that this is a 1/10 not a 1/100. For instance, the reviews for the movie in the OP average out to 7/100 and it would be difficult to skew the numbers so far through weighting the different sites to get the number as low as 1/100. 

Not really. Let's see who are the three publications that gave Death of a Nation a score higher than zero:

- Movie Nation: A 1-man blog-like site. A quick glance at the site will make you realize how small it is. It doesn't even have a Wikipedia article on it. 598,675th most accessed site in the world according to Alexa.

- Arizona Republic: The largest newspaper in Arizona, but still a newspaper (not focused in film-reviewing) and a local one. 6,911st most accessed site in the world according to Alexa.

- The Austin Chronicle: An alternative weekly newspaper distributed exclusively in a city with 950k people. 51,493rd in the Alexa list.

Now let's see who gave Death of a Nation a zero:

- RogerEbert.com: A site created by Roger Ebert, one of the most important film critics of all time. 9,832nd in the Alexa list.

- The Hollywood Reporter: Probably the most reputable Hollywood-specialized magazine. Was created 87 years ago and is currently part of the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, together with Billboard (I don't think I need to explain this one). 1,482nd in the Alexa list.

- Variety: Do I really need to explain Variety? It was founded 115 years ago and is the 1,425th most accessed site in the world according to Alexa.

- IndieWire: Probably the most influential publication focused on independent films. 3,299th in the Alexa list.

- The A.V. Club: Partially owned by Univision Communications, who also owns Kotaku. 2,033rd in the Alexa list.

 

 

I calculated what score Death of a Nation would have if Metacritic based their reviewer reputation on the Alexa list, dividing every ranking in the list by 1,425 (Variety's position) and then dividing the score they gave by the resulting number.

If Metacritic based their reviewer reputation on the Alexa list, Death of a Nation would have more or less a 0.56/100. So yes, it's very possible to get a 1/100 out of those reviews.

Checking through the lowest scored movies ever it seems to truly be a 1/100. I find it surprising that the weighting by Meta can make such a giant difference in the average but that is what occurred. Apologies for my misunderstanding. Interesting use of the Alexa rating to weight things, have you ever looked into whether that works for other metascores? I doubt it's exactly how it's done but I'd be interested to see how close it usually gets.



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Torillian said:
LuccaCardoso1 said: 

I calculated what score Death of a Nation would have if Metacritic based their reviewer reputation on the Alexa list, dividing every ranking in the list by 1,425 (Variety's position) and then dividing the score they gave by the resulting number.

If Metacritic based their reviewer reputation on the Alexa list, Death of a Nation would have more or less a 1.28/100. So yes, it's very possible to get a 1/100 out of those reviews.

Checking through the lowest scored movies ever it seems to truly be a 1/100. I find it surprising that the weighting by Meta can make such a giant difference in the average but that is what occurred. Apologies for my misunderstanding. Interesting use of the Alexa rating to weight things, have you ever looked into whether that works for other metascores? I doubt it's exactly how it's done but I'd be interested to see how close it usually gets.

I miscalculated, Death of a Nation would have a 1.28/100. Still closer to a 1/100 than it is to a 2/100 anyway. I tested this formula with Dog Days, the first movie I found there on Metacritic. It has a Metascore of 39/100, and by my calculations, it should have a 45.1/100. While it's not exact, it's close enough.



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Audience reviews tell a different story.



markodeniro said:

Audience reviews tell a different story.

Yeah because audience reviews are always so unbiased and reliable...



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I would like a movie parodying on the left and right political spectrum going at each other.



LuccaCardoso1 said:
markodeniro said:

Audience reviews tell a different story.

Yeah because audience reviews are always so unbiased and reliable...

More reliable than critics for sure. Unless you think the critics were unbiased...



Immersiveunreality said:
I would like a movie parodying on the left and right political spectrum going at each other.

I was thinking about this the past few weeks. It would be hilarious if like a 70's cop movie with a black and white cop team, there was a movie where Trump and Obama were cops and they had to learn how to get along with each other.