Rotten tomatoes fan reviews - accurate?

[Skeptisk]

There are sometimes huge discrepancies between fan and professional reviews and scores on Rotten Tomatoes. Which one do you give more importance to? Neither?

[Jimjimhim]

Which do you?

[SlimJim16v]

I'd go by the fan reviews most of the time. You have something like the Acolyte though, which has critics at 85% and fans at 15%, when it should be around 50%. I'm also watching Sense8 which is at 85% for both.

[daqinggregg]

What makes them 'professional reviews'? They write more reviews? Some films/movies, which got great critical acclaim, I thought WTF; but I'm not very artistic.

[lambosagogo]

I find audience score is a far better reflection. The paid reviewers are not going to bite the hands that feed them. Audience score <50% is unlikely to get a watch.

[hidetheelephants]

Ignore them all, just watch stuff and decide if you like it.

[ChocolateFrog]

Skeptisk said:

There are sometimes huge discrepancies between fan and professional reviews and scores on Rotten Tomatoes. Which one do you give more importance to? Neither?

Fan reviews all the time.

[Skeptisk]

Jimjimhim said:

Which do you?

Generally if there is a big difference between the two I’m a bit wary.

[Skeptisk]

hidetheelephants said:

Ignore them all, just watch stuff and decide if you like it.

We don’t go to the cinema that often and I would be annoyed to take the time and suffer the expense to see something I really didn’t like.

[siremoon]

A review is a matter of opinion ergo there is no objective measure of accuracy.