To have all those biased paid for reviews out there?! It must be like gaming where the budget for paying off reviewers and 'marketing' is higher than the budget for the product itself.
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Réponse de Geff
le 12 mai 2017 à 13h30
A populace has a belief that is discordant with your belief system and instead of trying to understand the idiosyncrasies of why the populace has this, in your opinion, false belief, you instead come up with nonsense conspiracy theories.
Maybe the populace does infact hold the incorrect belief, in that regard the burden of effort should be on you to justify your belief and justify why their belief is incorrect. But, ofcourse that's too hard. It's much easier to say that the populace has been somehow manipulated or deceived, or in your case, come to the conclusion that the populace does not hold the discordant belief at all. The discordant belief is a fabrication.
Réponse de microscope
le 12 mai 2017 à 13h47
It isn't a populace though, look at all the people who hate the movie, they are all over the place. The reviews don't reflect that. Also paid for reviews is well proven now. Also you spelled your name wrong.
Réponse de Geff
le 12 mai 2017 à 14h21
Even if you interview a thousand people, that's not a representative sample of the entire world. It might be a representative sample for a zip code; you might determine that people in your zip code don't like the movie. You cannot generalize the opinions of people in your zip code to the entire world.
There isn't great availability of the username Jeff if you make an account, for anything.
Réponse de microscope
le 12 mai 2017 à 14h28
Why would I know people in my zip code? Lol. I am talking about all the pages online and on this forum. Lots of people hated it yet the reviews are like 100% positive. RT gives it 94% which is a total scandal.
Réponse de Geff
le 12 mai 2017 à 15h05
Selection bias. Have you considered that people who like the movie might not be outspoken on the internet. When you are looking at posts on the internet you might be seeing a skewed view.
That being said, I shouldn't be hypocritical and encourage self-doubt without doubting my own beliefs. Maybe I'm wrong and you are indeed right in your conspiracy theory.
Still it's worthy of reflection: Is your theory parsimonious, or does it violate Occam's Razor? Are the assumptions you are making plausible assumptions?
Réponse de microscope
le 12 mai 2017 à 15h13
If that was the case all movie discussion would be the same, yet it isn't. You can decide for yourself if it is plausible, but you should first think about whether it is illegal or not to pay off reviewers. (It isn't). And if it happens in one industry, why wouldn't it happen in others? At the end of the day, no movie should ever get 94% from a professional review website, especially this movie.
Réponse de Geff
le 12 mai 2017 à 15h18
The Wailing got 99% (I happen to agree with this rating, but that's subjective and unimportant). Does that mean that they too purchased reviews?
Réponse de microscope
le 12 mai 2017 à 15h51
For sure.
Réponse de Geff
le 12 mai 2017 à 16h26
I guess don't trust the rating system then. Fairly simple solution.
I happen to be part of the, according to you, small minority who who like Arrival. My impression is validated by the rating, unlike yours. As a result, I have no cause to doubt the legitimacy of the rating. You have not provided sufficient evidence to convince me.
Your argument (if I'm correct) is: Just because it can happen and it has happened in the past (you have not shown sources in regards to this claim), means that it is happening now. A possibility does not imply a certainty.
It really comes down to whether or not you agree with the rating. If you agree with the rating, it's legitimate, if you disagree with the rating then it's illegitimate.
Réponse de DRDMovieMusings
le 12 mai 2017 à 17h29
I kinda figured your username was short for "Geoffrey".
Réponse de microscope
le 12 mai 2017 à 18h42
Did you like Contact?
Réponse de DRDMovieMusings
le 12 mai 2017 à 18h47
Much better than Arrival.
Réponse de microscope
le 12 mai 2017 à 18h48
I'm guessing Geff has watched it a million times.
Réponse de tmdb65612444
le 14 mai 2017 à 13h35
Other than an interesting premise, Arrival was total garbage. Most of the reviews had to have been fixed.
Réponse de microscope
le 14 mai 2017 à 13h48
Yep!