| HappySqurriel said: Consider this, Wild Hogs received a metacritic score of 27 and still had a US box-office of $168,273,550 ... This isn't an isolated event, and many of the worse reviewed movies of the year see US box-office results at higher than $25 Million; and when you consider worldwide ticket and DVD sales these movies can see profits of $100,000,000. Now, one of the questions that has to be asked whenever you see this kind of disparity is "Are these scores fair given what people are looking for and value when they decide to pay for this product?" ... If you saw a review score for a McDonalds' Restaurant odds are it would be (the equlivalent) a 20% score or lower because the real quality of the food and service is pretty awful, but (as most of us will argree with) you typically choose to go to McDonalds because it is easy, cheap, filling and familiar (things which are typically not valued in a review). |
Movies are different, and critics are much much harsher.
In Videogames anything below a 70 is considered "bad" by gamer standards.
In movies a rating of 50-60 usually means its a decent movie to go watch. Also I try to stay away from the top rated movies by critics, i find that my enjoyment of the movie is inversely related to how hig hthe critics rate it, with few exceptions like LOTR.
I enjoyed wild hogs, i would of seen it in the movies, In a critics eye a movie is either 5 stars or 1 star.
