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The Crow Review (www.joblo.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Considering this site seemed to be posting negative vibes about the film, I find it interesting that they give it 6 out of 10, slightly above average.

EDIT: The Hollywood Reporter was not impressed.

The Crow is a sluggish, overly self-serious gloomfest that never takes wing. Given the long string of directors and lead actors attached to the project over its 16 years of on-off development, the overworked, lifeless result should be no surprise. I suppose at least we were spared the Mark Wahlberg version.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

6 out of 10 is the new 2. People don't know how to rate things anymore. It makes everything difficult to gauge. The Chinese restaurant in town near me has a 4.7/5 on Google and it's the most disgusting food I've ever eaten, yet it has the same score as the actually good restaurants nearby.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

None of us are allowed to give lower than a 4 rating because of stupid contract based work apps and an algorithm that decides to not show low value options below 4 stars or allow for them anywhere.

It's bled into so many things but the ratings between 2 -> 7 might as well all mean the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And corporate acts like it, treating an honest 4/5 as if an employee called you a slur.

Any metric that becomes a goal ceases to be a useful metric.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This started in the early 2000's already and I remember discussing back then that the customers also treated a 5/10 as "okay" when scoring a place, but would never consider going to an "okay" place when looking for one so the businesses started to beg for higher scores and the threshold fot "okay" kept moving up.