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Birds Of Prey Review Thread - 92% RT: What are we? Some better Suicide Squad?

sapien85

Banned
Nov 8, 2017
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Why is there such a huge gap between RT and Meta? I've seen gaps before but don't remember any this big. Sometimes movies are higher in metacritic or about even.
 
Galactic Specter

Galactic Specter

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Oct 28, 2017
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Happily surprised this is getting better reception than Suicide Squad, that movie had a lot of wasted potential. It's nice that it's being put to good use. Might check it out this weekend
 
Nappuccino

Nappuccino

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
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ducktape said:
What world is that? The movie has great reviews everywhere. If you want to ignore those to handpick the ones that agree with you, I could see how you'd think that's worldwide.
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There's been a major backlash against the movie, mostly because of its overly simplistic depiction of race and racism.
 
Raptor

Raptor

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Oct 25, 2017
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ducktape said:
Already at 77 reviews and still at 90%. Very nice, DC. I'm happy Margot Robbie getting her own movie wasn't a mistake. I love her.


So now Crash is a bad movie because you said it is? Joker's winning and getting all these nominations because it's a great movie and you seem upset about that. It's gonna be ok.
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Its tearing him in the inside!!

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JustinBB7

JustinBB7

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Nov 16, 2017
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It starts a bit slow and with an annoying style (to me) but it finds it footing later and I really liked it! The action scenes were really fun and there were a lot of them. Fun movie.
 
Wingfan19

Wingfan19

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Oct 25, 2017
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sapien85 said:
Why is there such a huge gap between RT and Meta? I've seen gaps before but don't remember any this big. Sometimes movies are higher in metacritic or about even.
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Again... RT score is just how many critics said, "Yeah, this movie is good enough to go see" where as the Meta is the actual (weighted) score of the those reviews. As of now, the RT score is 87%, but the average score is 6.92, while the MC is at 61. So they're not that far off.
 
ElectronicOldMen

ElectronicOldMen

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Oct 27, 2017
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sapien85 said:
Why is there such a huge gap between RT and Meta? I've seen gaps before but don't remember any this big. Sometimes movies are higher in metacritic or about even.
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RT - percentage of critics who gave the film a generally agreeable review
MC - how good critics think the film is out of 100

So if every critic who sees a film gives it a 3/5 or a 6/10, all of those will be considered positive reviews, and thus it'll be a 100% on RT and a 60 on MC.

Likewise, if half of all critics that see a film give it a 10/10, and half give it a 4/10, it'll be 50% on RT, and 70 on MC.

I've never really liked RT but it makes more sense for big, mainstream movies, where the average person would rather know how likely it is they'll enjoy a movie, rather than smaller or artsier movies where it's more useful to tell the difference between whether something is fine or whether it's great.
 
Milennia

Milennia

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Oct 25, 2017
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On way to theater now, I had a gut feeling this movie would get good reviews for months, glad it happened
 
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