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Rant: I gave a 2 star score to a movie everyone loves and my friend stopped talking to me for a week
My friend Dana and I started a two person movie club in January and we each pick one film a month, and back in March she picked a sci-fi movie that has like a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and I honestly thought it was just okay, maybe a 2.5 out of 5, slow in the middle and the ending felt rushed. I wrote up my honest score in our shared doc like we always do, and she texted back 'wow okay' and then went quiet on me for about eight days, which taught me that people tie their taste to their identity way more than I realized. So how do you all handle rating something low when the person who picked it really loves it, do you soften the number or just say what you actually thought?
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ericb666d ago
Eight days of silence over a 2.5 seems pretty light compared to what I'd expect, honestly. She picked that movie, she put it in the doc, she waited for you to watch it, and then you handed her a score that basically says her taste is mediocre. That's not the same as saying the movie was slow in the middle. You two built this club as a way to share something, and a shared doc with letter grades turns a fun night into a report card. Think about it from her side: she loved it enough to pick it, she probably watched you watch it, and the first thing she gets is a number. A 96% on Rotten Tomatoes means a lot of people connected with it too, so she's not sitting alone in that boat. So yeah, soften the number or at least lead with what worked before you get to the score. What did she say when you finally talked again?
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