Originally Posted by Jedi Hash
For those of you bashing rotten tomatoes, you need to click on a link before you bash it. Rotten tomatoes doesn't just give a rating, they take many, many critics ratings and combine them together to give a score. They also do the same with users. (By the way benagain 78% of critics and 94% of rt users gave Office Space a good rating, so maybe you better check again).
Yes, you can say, "I don't care what critics think! If I like a movie its good!! If I don't, it's crap!"
Well, that may be your philosophy, but it is in no way a method of deriving a film's merit. I'm sure some people think Heidi Klum or George Clooney are ugly people. That doesn't mean they are. A concensus needs to be reached on a film to determine whether its good and bad. And the vast majority of critics (people who love and have studied film, and are therefore more qualified to determine a film's merits in at least its technical sense) gave Lost in Translation a positive rating. Therefore, it is a good film. Whether one individual thinks it reeks doesn't matter. The concensus is it is a good film, so one's listing it as a "worst film ever" can hardly be justified.