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Amazon Prime Video Has More Movies, But Netflix Has Higher-Rated Films, Study Says (usatoday.com)
When you want to watch a movie, which streaming service truly delivers? If you want quality, opt for Netflix. If you prefer quantity, peruse Amazon Prime Video. From a report: That's the conclusion from Streaming Observer. The tech news website looked at all of the movies on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and HBO Now as of January 20 and analyzed the films' ratings on movie and TV review site Rotten Tomatoes. Also factored in: data from the streaming providers, as well as third-party search sites Reelgood and JustWatch. The site found Amazon had the most movies (17,461) -- four times that of Netflix (3,839) and many more times the amount on Hulu (2,336) and HBO (815). But Netflix had more movies -- 596, more than 15 percent of its library -- with a "Certified Fresh" rating from Rotten Tomatoes, a designation given to the best-reviewed films.
Not sure why I am being modded down. The "ratings" on Rotten Tomatoes mean nothing. The 3rd top rated movie of all time is "Lady Bird" and the 5th is "Get Out" and 7th is "Mad Max: Fury Road". The best movies of all time. Think about that.
Oh, how the articles on Slashdot keep getting less and less technical over time :-(
Yeah, it's almost as if opinions vary from person to person. Shocking!
Yeah, it's almost as if opinions vary from person to person. Shocking!
Yes, but not randomly. There is some critical consensus, and those movies, while not bad, are surprising to see in an all-time top list.
Well I do disagree with the Wizard of Oz being one of the top 5 (but that is just my opinion), but do you seriously think "Black Panther" is the BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME? And "Mad Max: Fury Road" is the fifth??? The ratings are worthless because it is obviously gamed by a bunch of script kiddies.
Or it has something to do with the fact that a shit load of people have seen Black Panther since the site existed but most people haven't been re-watching citizen cane and thinking "yah know what, I should review that on rotten tomatoes"
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It offers no subjective opinion if a movie is "the best" which is what you are trying to making it out to be.
No, he quite clearly isn't making it out to be that. He's very clearly highlighting that the article's description of 'higher rated films' is based on a demonstrably flawed measure.
Rotten Tomatoes also categorically offers only a subjective opinion. If there was any objectivity at all then the examples he's quoted would never have made the top 5 - and if you disagree with that, do please articulate the objective criteria that would grant them such lofty status.
Seems you want to apply a Strawman argument.
The fucking irony.
You're modded down because Slashdot moderation is almost entirely political reflex these days.
Rotten Tomatoes critic scores are just garbage. They reflect whether a movie is "the sort of movie people should see" in the mind of critics, not whether a movie will be engaging or entertaining. That was fine back in the day when that just meant boring, incomprehensible art-house films would be on top: ask an enthusiast for a recommendation and you're unlikely to get something practical. It was easy to ignore those and get real value from critics. Now it's all politics, and fuck that noise.
Rotten Tomatoes viewer scores are pretty good. Sure, you have to adjust for the lowest common denominator, and discount broad comedies and Transformers movies, but that's easy.
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