Rotten Tomatoes - Audience Rating / Audience Score

[Pais 121]

I think it would be nice to have the Audience Rating (icon) / Audience Score for movies along with the Critic Rating (icon) / Critic Score. It looks like the data is available from the Rotten Tomatoes API via the ratings field.

14    "ratings": {
15      "critics_rating": "Certified Fresh",
16      "critics_score": 99,
17      "audience_rating": "Upright",
18      "audience_score": 91

[Doonga 17]

Given the limited number of API hits per day, would this be better as a separate plugin or modify the current Rotten Tomatoes plugin?

 

Not sure either way will really save on API hits though.

 

I'm thinking of working on this since it's one of the things I really miss from Plex.

 

Obviously the clients would need to consume it, but at least we could get the data in the first place.

Edited June 25, 2016 by Doonga

[Luke 38161]

where would you display though i guess is the only thing. at some point you have to ask how many rating icons do you really need. We have the fresh/rotten icon, we have the imdb star, we have the heart for personal rating. So I guess how many do you really need to see on one line. Other question is how many consumers actually use rotten tomatoes to rate, therefore how good is the data.

[Doonga 17]

True... Personally I prefer RT over IMDB ratings any day. I'd rather see the RT critic/audience ratings to be preferred over IMDB when available. (I totally get that this isn't necessarily everyone's preference.) Maybe an option to display one over the other? The audience ratings tend to be good, and usually better reflect how "good" a movie is over the critics rating, IMO. I've never actually used the Emby heart ratings.

[Luke 38161]

but why rt over imdb given that many more people use imdb?

[Doonga 17]

To be perfectly honest I never really looked at how the IMDB rating was obtained. I thought it was from critics, but it does appear to be from actual viewers. Perhaps that is good enough! Maybe this isn't needed afterall.

 

Really glad I brought this up, I learned something new.

[Vidman 590]

I would really like the rt critic summary to show for movies in addition to plot/movie summary as the film blurb doesn't give an indication if the film is actually any good

Edited June 26, 2016 by Vidman

[orcist 2]

This could be shown by selecting the RT rating and clicking OK.

 

Might Rotten Tomatoes be one of the configurable, available options?

[Luke 38161]

I would really like the rt critic summary to show for movies in addition to plot/movie summary as the film blurb doesn't give an indication if the film is actually any good

 

what app? don't we have that already in the web client?

[3n8 7]

I hope this is not considered necroing, Im reading this as a feature request for rotten tomato audience score.

 

I get the sense reviewers and movie makers are becoming more political, So im finding the audience score more valuable then the imdb score or the tomatometer.

The difference between the tomato meeter and audience score on the last movie i saw was 50%, The difference between the audience score and imdb was even larger. This was on a movie with more then 86000 audience reviews.
 

So i want to add my support to this feature, And i have liked the post.

Edited May 28, 2019 by Enwyn

[ricardonr 5]

Hi,

 

The rotten tomato audience score would be nice as it is closer to the reality.

 

It would also be nice to give our own score (0-100 or 0-10) instead of just a heart (and sync this data with our TMDB/IMDB account). This way everything would be in sync.

 

Thanks

[crusher11 894]

Yeah, I have over 800 movies so a binary rating system doesn't help much.

[Sparker 33]

Is there a plugin that achieves this? It is the only feature I miss from Plex (aside from waiting for the skip intro button to be added for Android TV app).

[Cheesegeezer 3094]

This is not possible for us mere mortals to get to the api any more, only companies can get access after successfully being accepted so Emby could apply but i would imagine that it would cost some money

On 26/04/2022 at 11:46, Sparker said:

Is there a plugin that achieves this? It is the only feature I miss from Plex (aside from waiting for the skip intro button to be added for Android TV app).

 

[Tenaciousc 0]

On 6/25/2016 at 11:14 PM, Luke said:

where would you display though i guess is the only thing. at some point you have to ask how many rating icons do you really need. We have the fresh/rotten icon, we have the imdb star, we have the heart for personal rating. So I guess how many do you really need to see on one line. Other question is how many consumers actually use rotten tomatoes to rate, therefore how good is the data.

The easiest way to go would be to simply to replace the (in many times politically influenced) "experts" scores by the audience score, no extra display space is needed this way.
In all honesty, as simple movie watching mortals, do we prefer to have others like us tell us how good a movie or a series is, or do we prefer elites to tell us what to like?

Edited January 8, 2023 by Tenaciousc

[Sparker 33]

Audience score is far more valuable to me than critical rating.

[Mnejing 22]

Both would be ideal, imo. I do tend to lean more towards audience scores than critic scores, but then brigading becomes an issue. I'd like to just have both and carry on.

[Cain57 4]

I usually find that I'm closer in agreement with the RT Audience score than the critics rating.  I'd suggest being able to to select one or the other, the critics score is often useless. 

[Neminem 553]

Noooo we must trust the corrupt paid critics.

[Cain57 4]

Perfect example, people love this movie, critics hated it: The Greatest Showman

Edited May 25 by Cain57

[ZiggyDubz 7]

Just found this as I had a similar request. Would it be possible to just make this configurable on our side? I've found the Audience rating to be more accurate to what I actually like, than the critic score. Thanks Emby team. Y'all rule!

[Cain57 4]

Ziggy, I agree, the critics score rarely aligns with what we like to watch, audience score is a more reliable predictor of movies we will enjoy!  I'd like option to toggle between Critics/Audience  RT ratings. 

 

[Cain57 4]

On 6/25/2016 at 5:14 PM, Luke said:

where would you display though i guess is the only thing. at some point you have to ask how many rating icons do you really need. We have the fresh/rotten icon, we have the imdb star, we have the heart for personal rating. So I guess how many do you really need to see on one line. Other question is how many consumers actually use rotten tomatoes to rate, therefore how good is the data.

I use the RT Audience score 100% of the time to make my selection of what to watch.  I NEVER look at the critics score, FYI.

[yocker 38]

On 1/8/2023 at 12:20 PM, Sparker said:

Audience score is far more valuable to me than critical rating.

This, so much this! Todays critics have started to make me believe they are actually just paid marketing shills with how they score movies and shows. Audience score tend to more reliably reflect what i think as well.

A setting in Emby to change between Audience and critic score or both would be great.

[Cain57 4]

The critics are not only shills for the studios, but they often allow their politics to heavily influence their ratings.  Yuck!

Also, they see so many movies, that they often don't like the same movies most audiences like, and they will highly rate some piece of crap that audiences hated, and made little money! 

I'd love the Audience rating, with that little popcorn bucket, as an option to or replacement for the critics rating, I suspect many other folks do as well, but they don't know who to ask.

BTW LOVE, love love Emby!  I showed it to my wife, she was reluctant to learn a new app, but now she wants everything on Emby!  lol  It has been a game changer for me, with organizing my downloads and digital movies.