It | Sept. 8, 2017 | Warner Brothers | Andy Muschietti directing. Trailer on Page 12 NO SPOILER DISCUSSION. Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes

[MCKillswitch123]

10 minutes ago, We0uthere said:

Check again.. it's 81%. (Referring to top critic's reviews)

Shoulda specified you were talking only about top critics, mate.

 

And it's still 81% of all the top critics (for now). That's still a big number. So, I don't know what's the big deal here.

[KeepItU25071906]

2 minutes ago, We0uthere said:

What...? I was simply correcting him. 

Dude, I'm not blind...

[snarkmachine]

Why are people being so anal? This is clearly not a movie whose box office is going to be primarily dictated by the reviews. It's not going to make much of a difference whether the score is 80% or 90% or whether it's sorted by top critics or just normal critics.

[We0uthere]

7 minutes ago, KeepItU25071906 said:

Dude, I'm not blind...

You might not be blind but you sure are illiterate. 

[K1stpierre]

I honestly thought this movie would be around like a 50-65% rating when I first heard it was being made and even when I first saw stills of it. So the fact we are even thinking above 70% exceeds my expectations.

 

Plus, honestly I agree and take more from reviews on Youtube from people like Stuckman or Jahns and such as they tell it like it is. 

[Valonqar]

There are 54 positive reviews 5 negative, I'm not gonna worry about those 5. Like, seriously. 

 

this is an astounding success already and just wait when boxoffice numbers come out. 

[Krissykins]

Plus bad reviews usually mean fuck all for horror films lol. 

[KeepItU25071906]

21 minutes ago, We0uthere said:

You might not be blind but you sure are illiterate. 

Oh yeah, sure. 

[75Live]

and this is why I hate when RT watch or anything RT related is brought into the threads  

[Ms Lady Hawk]

Scott Mendelson from Forbes hated it. Looks like he is the minority. I don't think the reviews will matter for this one. People want something new at the box office. This movie is going to be massive.

[Krissykins]

3 minutes ago, Diana Prince said:

Scott Mendelson from Forbes hated it. Looks like he is the minority. I don't think the reviews will matter for this one. People want something new at the box office. This movie is going to be massive.

See 2 hours ago. 

[KeepItU25071906]

7 minutes ago, 75livesinDerry said:

and this is why I hate when RT watch or anything RT related is brought into the threads  

RT score looks more like help/not help for BO results. Only this.

 

I have my own opinion (like everyone) and it more significant for me than all this reviews.

[WrathOfHan]

Critics Consensus: Well-acted and fiendishly frightening with an emotionally affecting story at its core, It amplifies the horror in Stephen King's classic story without losing touch with its heart.

[AHepBurn]

3 minutes ago, KeepItU25071906 said:

RT score looks more like help/not help for BO results. Only this.

The actual impact of RT and critic reviews are largely based on the expected scale of the movie. If we're talking smaller or independent films, then RT and critic reviews make a massive difference because they're pulling from such a small potential audience that the additional talk provided by reviews is helpful to draw in additional audience that it likely wouldn't have before. If we're talking blockbusters, then RT and critic reviews don't make that much of a difference since the main driving force is interest and good or bad reviews are just going to shift numbers by, I'd say, 10% or so up or down depending on the reviews.

 

Think of it in the sense of football and baseball. Smaller films are like football, which only has 16 games. So any help or hinderance is going to make a massive impact because you're working with such a small sample size. Additionally blockbusters are like baseball, which has 162 games and things that would cripple a football team like injuries or slumps aren't going to make much of an impact because the size that you're working with is simply so large that it can weather most trends and occurrences so that you end up around where most people expect you to.

 

It is in that kind of middle range of scale that everyone can see that it'll make a lot of money regardless of the reviews because the general interest is already so large but it's still small enough that the critical response is definitely going to help it more than say an expected +$700mil WW blockbuster. With the current reviews and word-of-mouth, I think people should definitely raise their estimates up a good bit.

[ZattMurdock]

29 minutes ago, Diana Prince said:

Scott Mendelson from Forbes hated it. Looks like he is the minority. I don't think the reviews will matter for this one. People want something new at the box office. This movie is going to be massive.

When Mendelson hates something, he usually is in the minority. See The Force Awakens and Homecoming. IT will be fine. 

[ZattMurdock]

3 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Critics Consensus: Well-acted and fiendishly frightening with an emotionally affecting story at its core, It amplifies the horror in Stephen King's classic story without losing touch with its heart.

Critic Consensus is WAY too good for low 80s. This has high 80s with quite possibly low 90s written all over. 

[Zakiyyah6]

Of course reviews matter. If this film were getting bad reviews instead of decent to good ones no one would claim that they don't matter.

 

RT shouldn't have a consensus until 100 reviews are in.

Edited September 6, 2017 by Zakiyyah6

[ZattMurdock]

1 minute ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

Of course reviews matter. If this film were getting bad reviews instead of decent to good ones no one would claim that they don't matter.

 

RT shouldn't have a consensus until 100 reviews are in.

When they have a consensus this soon, it means that they actually have access to close of that mark, but are slowly dropping them. IT seems like a winner. 

[75Live]

well stepping away from this thread until I see the film, which is in about 29 hours so not that long of a hiatus for me  

[Barnack]

2 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

Of course reviews matter. If this film were getting bad reviews instead of decent to good ones no one would claim that they don't matter.

 

For the opening weekend, many would.

 

There is a reason they had a so late embargo, they also consider that reviews for a movie like that do not matter much.

 

Try this exercise, take the 450 last wide release and their RT score, look at the correlation between the 2, I think you will be shock on how little it seem to even have a correlation.