This happened to me when recently watching white chicks. Is it a good movie ? No, but how fun it is. I laughed my ass off in front of it. It was absurd.

The amount of times I've found absolute gems that have a 50% rating has caused me to go out of my way to watch them.

Some of them stink, but I feel like critics are like everyone else and some of them can be pretty dense

Me with Event Horizon lmao, I love that movie!!

The typical experience when you like horror movies... When horror movies get even slightly a better rating, they are often called "Mystery Thriller" or something else, just to avoid the Horror tag. Because somehow it's the law with movie critics that horror must have low rating.

In a world where Rings of fucking Power got made, and has people actually supporting that debasement of Tolkien's legacy, does it really matter anymore?

I long ago swore off taking overall consensus as a good measure of anything. People are, in general, dumb, and that goes doubly so for anything that requires an iota of attention.

Also, letting other people decide for me what's good and what's not is just ridiculous. We can like what we like and that's fine.

fully agree, ratings don't seem to be jack to the actual movie content.

I actually enjoy reviews more when they disagree with me, sometimes I can even see where they are coming from (sometimes they kinda sound silly), but whatever they didn't like / did like is just not important for me.

but it kinda improves my movie experience, same feeling as when I go with friends to see a movie and we exchange opinions but when I watch them alone.

Very rarely a review has changed my opinion, but sometimes it showed me cool stuff, like the movie avatar tlab was "okay", but the bad reviews actually showed me how awesome the show was in comparison.

Literally (ok, not literally) every black movie that I think is a classic has like 30% on Rotton Tomatoes

Sometimes hearing what other people think about a movie will give me a different perspective. Either better or worse.

Entertainment is not a competition.