Audience scores are influenced by the fact that people actively try to avoid watching things they will dislike. This is very easy for most people to see they will hate.
Poor audience scores on a movie usually demonstrate that marketing successfully lied to people about the content of the movie so they didn’t avoid it beforehand.
This is also why most people average 7/10 when giving ratings to shows rather than 5/10. People pre-select stuff they already know they want to watch, they don’t choose anything that they think will be below a 7/10 because they don’t want to watch anything below that.
That’s quite insightful, and it also explains why 10/10 is so easily milked out of chuds that came for clapter value from a chud-signaling trash movie. All it had to do is dispense slop when they lined up for it.
it’s kinda obvious when you think about it. You have to pick your movies with RNG if you want your score to average 5/10 because you need to include absolute trash in your watchlist. People do not pick their movies with RNG, we are selecting for things we think we might like.
Even that assumes that movies should be graded to a curve discounting that people may rate movies in a more absolute sense of how much they enjoyed them and that the craft of film makers can result in more movies being enjoyable than not.
This is also why the audience scores to season 3+ of shows are so high. Unless the show jumps the shark, those who stick with a show like more of the same.
Audience scores are influenced by the fact that people actively try to avoid watching things they will dislike. This is very easy for most people to see they will hate.
Poor audience scores on a movie usually demonstrate that marketing successfully lied to people about the content of the movie so they didn’t avoid it beforehand.
This is also why most people average 7/10 when giving ratings to shows rather than 5/10. People pre-select stuff they already know they want to watch, they don’t choose anything that they think will be below a 7/10 because they don’t want to watch anything below that.
That’s quite insightful, and it also explains why 10/10 is so easily milked out of chuds that came for clapter value from a chud-signaling trash movie. All it had to do is dispense slop when they lined up for it.
it’s kinda obvious when you think about it. You have to pick your movies with RNG if you want your score to average 5/10 because you need to include absolute trash in your watchlist. People do not pick their movies with RNG, we are selecting for things we think we might like.
This goes for videogames and other stuff too.
Even that assumes that movies should be graded to a curve discounting that people may rate movies in a more absolute sense of how much they enjoyed them and that the craft of film makers can result in more movies being enjoyable than not.
This is also why the audience scores to season 3+ of shows are so high. Unless the show jumps the shark, those who stick with a show like more of the same.