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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6931919" data-attributes="member: 6701872">To me, that sounds not as though the reviews are an actual waste of your time, you just haven't appropriately adjusted your view - you are expecting a highly-rated review from a reviewer with obviously different, nearly to the point of being opposite, tastes to your own to be good in your opinion, when you should be recognizing that if a reviewer that likes what you can't stand says &quot;This is great!&quot; it is identical to you to a reviewer that likes exactly what you like saying &quot;This is awful.&quot;Which is not really hard to do - just look at the reviews available from a particular source (local newspaper, rotten tomatoes, a youtuber, etc.) and see how that source reviewed a movie you've already seen, and assume that their general opinion will be as similar to your own as their review of that film is to your own thoughts (example: I look and see if a review source has given a rating for Army of Darkness, and if they say it sucked, I know to treat their review as an opposite - they give a high rating, I skip the film. They tank something, or even better refuse to even bother reviewing because they already know they'll hate it, I'll make sure I catch the film in theaters rather than waiting for a rental service or Netflix to have it).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6931919, member: 6701872"] To me, that sounds not as though the reviews are an actual waste of your time, you just haven't appropriately adjusted your view - you are expecting a highly-rated review from a reviewer with obviously different, nearly to the point of being opposite, tastes to your own to be good in your opinion, when you should be recognizing that if a reviewer that likes what you can't stand says "This is great!" it is identical to you to a reviewer that likes exactly what you like saying "This is awful." Which is not really hard to do - just look at the reviews available from a particular source (local newspaper, rotten tomatoes, a youtuber, etc.) and see how that source reviewed a movie you've already seen, and assume that their general opinion will be as similar to your own as their review of that film is to your own thoughts (example: I look and see if a review source has given a rating for Army of Darkness, and if they say it sucked, I know to treat their review as an opposite - they give a high rating, I skip the film. They tank something, or even better refuse to even bother reviewing because they already know they'll hate it, I'll make sure I catch the film in theaters rather than waiting for a rental service or Netflix to have it). [/QUOTE]

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