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Angry Rabbit
Carrots are delicious!
284 Posts |
 Posted - December 11 2004 : 7:35:51 PM
 
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When I first learned about Rotten Tomatoes a couple of years ago, I thought it was great - a single site that collected the reviews of every (or at least most) critics in one place. I didn't care so much about the Tomatometer, since the 60% threshold for "freshness" seemed a bit arbitrary, but I liked reading the comments, some of which were guaranteed to be hilarious.
Over time, however, Rotten Tomatoes got harder and harder to use. The critics' quotes were spread out over multiple pages, and defaulted to an unordered sequence so I had to navigate through multiple pages to find what I was looking for. Worse, the site became so heavy with ads that it would take forever to load, and sometimes I can't even get the tomato graphics to load at all (though the banner ads do), making it more annoying than interesting or useful.
Then I discovered metacritic, which was everything Rotten Tomatoes should have been but increasingly seemed determined not to be. Instead of ad-heavy pages, the quotes are presented as a clean list on a single page, with the highest rankings at the top and the lowest at the bottom. Metacritic also does games far better than Rotten Tomatoes, and also does music (though music reviews are completely unreliable IMO, but are often fun to read).
Thus, I've pretty much abandoned Rotten Tomatoes for metacritic. I still stop by Rotten Tomatoes every so often, but usually only because I know that's where I'll find the ad I'm looking for.
Has anyone else had the same experiences I have, and switched to metacritic in preference to Rotten Tomatoes?
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Biddybot
Captain
Canada
310 Posts |
Posted - December 11 2004 : 8:24:14 PM
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| I can't access either site from the computer I use, thus am spared the choice, let alone find anything to criticize. One site I can access which I'm liking more and more and which I discovered by accident via google is the movies section at christianitytoday.com. Their reviews are much more open than you'd expect from a religion-oriented site and I like their 'What Others Are Saying' section for the bigger films--always a good roundup of segments from other critics' reviews. I used to like screenit.com a lot too, but they've gone capitalist as of late and want you to join up to read their stuff now. |
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Axeman
CG Animator
United Kingdom
601 Posts |
Posted - December 12 2004 : 04:21:52 AM
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| Personally I never used Rotten Tomatoes, it was un-navigable and riddled with nonsense and adverts. I didn't know about Metacritic though, I'm going to give it a look see from now on. Personally I think one of the best and funniest sites is The Editing Room, http://www.ter.air0day.com/ where the guy gives vent to what he thinks about movies by writing abridged scripts which tell it like it is. I haven't laughed so much in years. |
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Edited by - Axeman on December 12 2004 04:23:07 AM |
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Premier Blah
is killing space bitches in heaven
Canada
4631 Posts |
Posted - December 12 2004 : 04:26:10 AM
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| About Rotton Tomatoes - it is part of the IGN network, which went to hell ever since they and gamespy.com made a deal together. I prefer metacritic, and I will probably look at Axeman's suggestion. |
"I've just found out that I have saboteurs in the tower! I still do not have the meteorite piece! I'm about to lose everything! We can talk about this later, if later even occurs!"
Clearly you all are not ready for space travel. I guess I'd better hang up my career as sci fact author.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.
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CineBomb2
Vegas Visor
USA
4135 Posts |
Posted - December 12 2004 : 11:50:13 AM
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| I just checked out metacritic, and you're right, it's much easier to use than Tomatoes. I used to go to the latter often when I was younger, but over time I just started reading the reviews of regular writers and let it fade away. Thanks for the link, Rabbit. :) |
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Girl in Gold Boots
Commander
USA
110 Posts |
Posted - December 13 2004 : 08:05:23 AM
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Angry Rabbit,
Thanks for the recommendation of metacritic. I just checked it out and it looks pretty good. I used to only use rotten tomatoes and imdb to look up movie reviews. This website looks a lot more concise. I'll add it to my favorites right now.
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