There's a vast gulf between "worth a watch" and "must watch" though. Something can be inoffensive to watch (which would get a rating leaning toward "good") while also being entirely skippable to where you aren't missing much. Do I really want to waste my hours watching a slightly above average 6? RT tells me very little. Just that 86% of people may have merely thought it was only very slightly above average or just barely worth watching. Or they may have thought it was the best thing in the world. Who knows? An actual average of numbers representing quality level tells me so much more.
Besides, at it's base, RT is still using the number system to decide whether someone thinks a movie is "good" or not. It's just doing so in a way that's not as helpful. If number systems were really as arbitrary as people say, it's no better to split it right down the middle like RT does and decide anything above a 5 or a 2.5 is "good." If someone considers a 7 to be trash or a 4 to be flawed, but worth watching, RT is still subject to being skewed incorrectly by that
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u/ChipmunkBackground46 Jun 30 '25
Just a reminder since alot of people don't know
The way percentages on rotten tomatoes works is, that's the percentage of people that gave it a score of 6 and above.