Taste is subjective
🍅 The folly of “professional” critics
Jay Chandrasekhar is a father, avid golfer, and a co-founder of VOUCH. He also happens to be a helluva filmmaker who is on a mission to give the power of recommendations back to the people.
“Who are these reviewers? They’re just strangers with outsized opinions.”
“When my film, Super Troopers, showed at Sundance, it played to big laughing crowds. But when it was released to the public, the reviews were only so-so. On Rotten Tomatoes, Super Troopers got a 38%-fresh aggregate score from less than a hundred reviewers. With the public, though, the film garnered a 90% fresh rating from more than 250,000 non-reviewers. This 38% reviewer number stuck in my craw.”
He still remembers thinking, “Who are these reviewers, these strangers with outsized power, and why are we listening to them? Seriously. When’s the last time you walked up to a stranger and said, “Hey, what movie should I see?”
Our goal with Vouch Vault is to take recommendation power from anonymous strangers and give it to the people whose tastes you know and trust.
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