{"id":447,"date":"2016-10-09T13:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T12:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulplowman.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2023-02-05T23:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T23:14:25","slug":"contrarian-movie-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/contrarian-movie-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrarian Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rotten<\/a>As a movie fan\/data nerd, I visit the website Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> a lot. It’s a movie review aggregator site, which tells you what percentage of reviewers consider a movie a hit or a miss. Movies where more than 60% of reviewers consider it worth watching are classed as “Fresh”, while any movie with less than 60% good reviews is considered “Rotten”.<\/p>\n

It’s not the most nuanced of review sites, but it gives you a good overview of critical opinion.<\/p>\n


\nAnother thing it allows you to do is see, at a glance, how certain reviewers review movies, and how often their opinions coincide, or not, with the general consensus. For instance, notorious contrarian Armond White<\/a> only agrees with the consensus 53% of the time as I write this (Films he considers misses include: The Wrestler<\/em>, Toy Story 3<\/em>, The Dark Knight<\/em>, There Will Be Blood<\/em>. Films he considers hits: Grown Ups<\/em>, Jonah Hex<\/em>, G.I.Joe 2<\/em>, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer<\/em>, Transformers 2<\/em>).<\/p>\n

I wondered which critic disagreed with the consensus the most. Is there any critic, for example, who agreed with the general consensus 0% of the time?<\/p>\n

Well, a bit of Google-fu shows that there are lots of critics who are contrarian 100% of the time, but a deeper look shows that almost all of these have only reviewed one or maybe two movies. If you only review one movie, especially if that movie rates around 60%, then the chances of you giving slightly over 60% and the consensus being slightly under 60% (or vice-versa) are pretty good.<\/p>\n

So I decided that a critic had to have reviewed at least five movies. With that in mind, I found one person who had a 100% contrarian rate; And that person is Rod Gudino<\/a>! Yay!<\/p>\n

Rod has reviewed seven movies at the time of writing, between 2002 and 2006, and none of his ratings agree with the critical consensus. That’s quite an achievement.<\/p>\n

I guess it might also explain why he hasn’t had any movie reviews published in the last decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a movie fan\/data nerd, I visit the website Rotten Tomatoes a lot. It’s a movie review aggregator site, which tells you what percentage of reviewers consider a movie a hit or a miss. Movies where more than 60% of reviewers consider it worth watching are classed as “Fresh”, while any movie with less than Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}