I recently discovered the ‘watchlist’ feature, and am loving it, having migrated from frustrating experiences with watchlists on justwatch, letterboxd, and IMDB. Thank you!
The watchlist currently allows sorting by ‘critic rating’. I’m unsure of the exact metric this uses, but it seems to combine scores from several sources, and rotten tomatoes seems to dominate, both in the number of movies shows with a rotten tomato score under their listing, as well as in the top entries in the sorted list all being rotten tomato “100%” ratings.
This is suboptimal for me, because rotten tomato ratings differ quite substantially from IMDB ratings. To characterize the difference: If all reviewers find the movie mildly good & innoffensive, then they will all give it a review which gets a red tomato, resulting in an overall rotten tomato score of 100%. This tends to blunt the distribution of scores, so that bland crowdpleasers tend to score very highly, and risk-taking, arty, award-winning movies tend to do less well.
By contrast, the IMDB more heavily weights votes from users who have, for example, cast a lot of votes, which tends to correlate with users who are well educated in film and have more patience for something out of the ordinary. As a result, bland crowdpleasers don’t score as well on IMDB, and risk-taking award-winners score better.
I’m not saying either one of these is better than the other. Just that both have their place, and it would be nice to give your users the choice of which one they prefer. To be explicit, personally, I prefer the IMDB scores, and my watchlist sorted by that looks much more like a list sorted by what most excites me than the list sorted by the current plex “critic rating” does.
I realize this is a tiny incremental refinement on top of an amazingly useful and great feature, and am grateful for your consideration.
