I’ve been a longtime fan of Rotten Tomatoes, and I still am! I find that the Tomatometer is a pretty good indicator of whether a movie is decent or a stinker. Sure, there are times when I’ll disagree with the critics… but more often than not, I’ll agree with the consensus of the critics, if not the opinions of a single critic. I went looking for a site that would do the same for music, and I found metacritic: Film Reviews, Game Reviews, Music Reviews, DVD Reviews. Yep, everything all in one place. Pretty spiffy looking. Now to start figuring out if I agree with the opinions that appear there.
Music is a particularly dicey thing when it comes to reviews, because everyone has their own tastes. Right now, I’m really enjoying listening to “My Band” by D12, “Going Under” by Evanescence (man, pop radio really missed the boat on that one!) and “Yeah” by Usher. “Yeah” is amazing because of how simple the music is. The interplay of the elements in that song make for a phenomenal piece of pop music (12 weeks at #1 says that I’m not the only person who thinks is phenomenal pop…)
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January 17th, 2005 at 12:32 am
Metacritic’s scoring system is vastly superior to that of Rotten T’s. A weighted average of critic scores is MUCH more precise than a ratio of “fresh” to “rotten”. It’s beyond me that RT gives a 2 out of 4 stars a “rotten” grade. Sounds about middle of the road to me! Metacritic gives that an intuitive 50/100. Kudos to the Metacritics!
January 7th, 2006 at 2:51 am
If you like Metacritic, you might have a look at another website, Qritic.com, which also aggregates movie ratings into composite scores. However, Qritic adds the useful element of weighting each rating that goes into the score by the similarity of the rater to your ratings of several movies. The result is a personalized list of movies that you may like.