Last week I shared how Pop Secret adds the perfect touch to our family movie night. Now today I’ll talk about how we get ready for movie night. There’s three parts to family movie night in our house – our family, a special snack (usually Pop Secret), and of course the movie itself.
Our family movie night is usually two-fold. The first half we watch a movie with the kids and snack on Pop Secret.
We always watch a family-friendly movie of course, and it’s often one we’ve seen before. We have a great collection of tried and true family movies so that’s helpful.
After that, the children go to bed and Nate and I will sit down to watch a movie together. But choosing the movie and actually sitting down to watch it are two different things.
We often have a hard time narrowing down our choice. Because let’s face it – there’s a lot of bad movies out there and who has time to waste on a bad movie? We certainly don’t.
“Find Your Critic”
Pop Secret and Rotten Tomatoes have joined together to offer a free new online tool, called Find Your Critic. The idea is to match you with movie critics who have similar tastes. As a result, you can go off their recommendations and help avoid the waste-of-time movies and find the ones you’ll really enjoy.
I tested out the Find Your Critic tool. It was easy and honestly quite fun to rate different movies with a click of the mouse. I could rate them from 1-5 stars or choose “Want to See It” or “Not Interested.” Rotten Tomatoes also keeps a running list of the movies I want to see, which is also handy. After rating 10 or so movies, the tool formulated my “Critic Matches” and showed me the list.
It was interested to look through the critics I was matched with. There were one or two I didn’t feel were a good match but it was simple to remove them from my list.
As I continue to rate movies, my list of matched critics will continue to evolve, right along with my taste in movies.
How does that translate into choosing a movie? I clicked on a movie I was interested in and scrolled down to “Critic Reviews” where there was an option to choose “My Critic Reviews.” From there, I could see exactly what some of my chosen critics thought. It was pretty neat, especially as I was able to get a great perspective on a newly released movie I’ve been interested in.
At Pop Secret, we love movies as much as you love movies. That’s why we created the Find Your Critic tool with Rotten Tomatoes. It helps you figure out which movie critics you should listen to. All you have to do is rate some movies and the tool figures out which critics share your taste in movies. It even helps you follow your critics’ new movie reviews and recos. So when it comes to enjoying movies, the only thing you have to worry about is which kind of Pop Secret to make. Check it out!
Disclosure: Compensation was provided by Pop Secret via Glam Media. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions or positions of Pop Secret.
This is great! We watch a LOT of movies since we had our satellite turned off 3 years ago so this tool will come in handy! There is nothing worse than snuggling in to watch a good movie & it be a total bomb!
I am right there with you, Robin! I can’t stand to watch a bad movie – and there are SO many now days!
My husband and I are huge fans of Rotten Tomato – we’ll have to try this new app!
such a great idea!
Thanks Erika, I can’t wait to try this app out. Really excited about being able to keep of list of movies I want to see after I learn more about them.
We love pop secret, thanks for the review.
This is a great tool to check out movies – I hate to waste money on movies that we end up not liking.
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Karen
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I use Rotten Tomatoes to check reviews. Nice new tool they added 🙂
This sounds like a fun way to see if a movie is good or not good.
i have not tried this yet i usually use imdb
pop secret is great. love their 100 calorie packs
What a great idea. I hate renting a movie and sitting through it and hating every minute of it. Thanks for sharing I will have to check it out.
“Find Your Critic” – what a great I idea. After work….picking up movie, rushing home to fix dinner, has not always turned out to be Perfect! Even thou I read the back of movies …. sometimes we get a surprise. I’m famous for falling to sleep during even the best movie but I know when something is surprising the kid’s thought waves….giggles or everyone is looking at me in that – yep! mom did NOT read the review very good. lol Thank you for this review.
It sounds like the Find Your Critic is a great way to avoid the waste-of-time movies!
We all have different tastes, so the ability to choose certain critics that you agree with is a nice idea.
Thanks for the review!
I want to start a movie night at our house!!
This is a great tool for me because I watch a lot of different movies and I’ve found that I definitely like a certain genre more than another, but it’s not as simple as just staying with one genre of movie. Sometimes I surprise myself by liking something I never thought I would. The Critic Tool would help me narrow down what movies I would like based on what I’ve already liked. I will definitely be checking it out!
That’s a great tool, I read Rotton Tomatoes reviews quite often.
Sounds like an interesting tool. My taste in movies is so different from most.
This will be a great tool for me! I often disagree with a movie critic, now I can match one to my tastes. Thanks for sharing!
I have been receiving Rotten Tomatoes newsletter for some time now and love it. I like this new program and will be trying it out.
This is a great idea.
What an awesome idea!! I love that its customized for me!
I could have movie night every night with Pop Secret. I like the Butter and Kettle popcorn! It is so delicious! I will be having movie night tomorrow, and be having this popcorn with my family!
What a cool idea! What will they think of next?
This is great! I love Pop Secret and I go on Rotten Tomatoes a lot so they are perfectly paired and I can’t wait to check this out!
We all enjoy pop secret here, thank you for the review.
This is a really great idea. We typically only have time for ONE movie, so it really feels like a waste when we start one and end up not liking it and turning it off because then we don’t have time to start another one.
That looks great! Have to try it since I disagree with critics a lot.
What a neat idea! This helps when selecting movies to watch.
Seems like a usable tool, but my fiance always reads extensive reviews before we see movies, so I don’t need something like this!
Love this Idea and used it many times when my kids were little! And we included neighbor kids!