It doesn’t matter. None of this matters. Transformers movies got terrible terrible reviews and were all incredibly popular. All the Twilight movies got horrendous reviews, quite popular. People are gonna like what they like, and the idea that they can be convinced by a number on rottentomaotes is ridiculous.

Yeah, it’s really that simple.

I don’t like how rotten tomatoes works so guess what, I just don’t use it. I really couldn’t give less of a shit how anyone else decides to use the website

The purpose of a gun is murder. The fact guns are used for murder isn't a shocker.

The shocker is that half the government gets paid so much by the NRA that they're happy to make the yearly sacrifice of dozens of innocent people, often children, just to keep that paycheck.

If people were using firearms to fasten nails, now that'd be interesting.

I give this thread 1 Star out of 100.

What do you suggest people watch? Best your a DC fan.

Was this written by ChatGPT?

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thats true if mainstream movie goers apply your nuance to decision making. They don't. Their barometer is the score only

the people outisde the bubble are what $make or break movies$

do you apply the same principles to guns?

I don't personally care about how other people spend their time though

I mean if somebody tries to use a hammer to slice a block of cheese, that's not the hammer's problem.

Holy smokes. It’s just a website to help consumers quickly discern whether or not a movie sucks & to click a link or two, to a full review from a professional critic, if they want further analysis.

Why are so many movie fans investing their hearts & souls into this very simple, consumer education website? You’re still allowed to like Batman vs Superman or whatever goddamn movie you’re butthurt about, regardless of what the little cartoon tomatometer says.

it needs to be ended as the barometer because outside of this sub and other movie forum, outside the celebrity and movie forum bubble, the score is the barometer for people. a yes or no. we movie aficionados apply nuance, they don't. But their $ make or break a movie, ours doesnt

Use letterboxd and curate it so that you only see the opinions of people you trust, problems solved.

Talking of needing to "end" websites you don't personally like is pretty silly, even as clickbait.

The reaction you’re getting is in response to your suggestion that Rotten Tomatoes needs to be ended, not that it’s a garbage metric.

I’m content just to ignore it.

in the end, the tomatometer is pretty accurate according to my experience

the general movie goer sees the score as the barometer, nothing else. outside this subreddit and other movie forums, thats the reality outside the bubble, RT score is what forms their opinion. the tool facilitates this this behavior, we know better, movie goers don't. Which is why many movie goers often have wrong impression and don;t see movies which are good and go see movies which are bad

agree. the problem is people are always told not to take the score as face value but they do. they have a tool but don't apply nuance towards it. Maybe we should not rely on the tool anymore is my point.

if only most movie goers thought this way, I would agree. we enable them being too aloof by accepting them taking score at face value. every. single. time.

> Therefore, it is time to remove the relevance of Rotten Tomatoes and embrace the internet and social media as the new mechanisms for evaluating and appreciating films.

Oof. Last thing I want to discuss, and or listen to is a bunch of people on Twitter being tastemakers for the film industry.

Rottentomatoes is the best because the one question you should be asking a critic: “Is this movie worth spending my time and money on?” is the only question that rottentomatoes answers. “71 percent of critics believe that, yea, it is worth spending your time and money on.” That’s all you get from them.

“Is it the greatest movie this year? Is is barely worth watching?” These are questions you need to answer for yourself. Critics can’t tell you that. They can’t even really tell you if you yourself will agree with their assessment that the movie is worth your time and money. That’s why collecting so many is great.

Problem 1 is not a problem with RT, it's a problem with the people unable to wrap their brain around what a RT% actually is, or if they do understand what it is can't figure out how to apply that information to their movie-choosing.

As far as the trolls/bots, it's no more susceptible to this than any other platform, and the fact the main metric is the Critics Rating means all you need to do is ignore audience score for any popular movie with a prominent minority/woman since it will inevitably get review-bombed by the alt-right.

The third problem is again, not a problem with RT, just a reflection of the fact that most popular mainstream cinema is focused around American movies.

obsession in favor of or against? because the visceral reaction to an opinion shows it seems to be only in favor of lol

This sub’s obsession with RT (usually paired with a fundamental misunderstanding of how it actually works) borders on the psychotic.