This is what happens when corporation takes over fan loved websites, the same thing kinda happened with metacritic and IMDB easily manipulated reviews and critics scores.

Hence users started shifting to other websites, like backlogg, Just watch, SIMKL.

Good movie, seen it already

Good movie but seen it

Good movie seen ittt

Good movie, don't know what you mean by that tho

Seen, too old, doesn't fit the criteria, but thank you anyway

Didn't look very appealing for me tried to watch it yesterday

Omnomnom

Seen the void, I'll check out the ruins thank you

Seen it, both great movies yes

Come on now you're not even trying everyone's seen cloverfield and knows of notld, legion and cloverfield are good tho

The devil was aight

I remember the minor controversy when Get Out's perfect Rotten Tomatoes score was voided when the review by contrarian critic Armond White was added. It proves not everyone loves (or is going to love) a "Certified Fresh" movie. And anything that gets a rotten green symbol isn't a movie that everyone is going to hate. In a way, it's taken too seriously, because I still remember old fashioned newspaper/magazine movie and TV show reviews. On some occasions, critics and mass audiences are on the same page with critical raves and excellent box office or viewership. But there's definitely an underlying issue when there's a higher RT critics score and an low/average RT audience score.

Exactly.

Man people care way too fucking much about movie scores here. I’ve seriously never once in my life let a score or review stop me from seeing something I wanna see. Can you not make decisions for yourself?

Pretty certain OP used chatGPT to write this, it just reads and is structured exactly like an AI argument. So why bother discussing it's content.

Edit: After checking their profile, this is 100% chatGPT. Don't waste your time arguing with chatGPT through a lonely redditor.

I'm more of an imdb guy to be honest .

You keep saying in replies that the general public doesn’t use RT for more than a barometer for their decisions and They’re not deep diving into reviews by critics they share personal taste with, they’re not looking for more diverse opinions.

What makes you think they’ll use social media to search out the things you’d say they’re not doing already? They don’t want to search it out. They want to see what the mainstream public and critics think.

As for trolls and review bombing, social media can be manipulated the exact same way, it not worse.

Also, if RT goes away, they’ll just use another similar review type site for their barometer. Most people don’t deep dive into movies like that.

People who want more diverse opinions will search them out.

The solution to your problem is that RT needs a more diverse critic lineup and to include more diverse things in their ratings.

Why reinvent the wheel when a bearing is squeaking? Just fix the squeaky bearing…

Social media is the last thing I'd use when looking for takes and opinions on movies. I don't think there's any movie that's not deemed "sooo CRINGE!!" or "problematic..." by those freaks.

I don't think this really true. There are plenty of films that "scored" poorly on Rotten Tomatoes and went on to gross huge amounts and plenty more that "scored" highly and grossed peanuts.

Even if this was true, Rotten Tomatoes is literally just a review aggregator so your argument would condense down to "should we eliminate movie critics completely?"

Nothing, I enjoy DC, but big DC fans don't like the RT scores which are usually lower than Marvel. Either way, the whole post has Chat GPT written all over it .

Whats wrong with DC?

People want to quickly know if something is worth their time & money. RT allows them to quickly get a sense of what the professionals think: “84% of the critics said this was worth my time & money? Cool, that’s a solid number; I’ll consider checking it out this weekend.”

It’s that simple.

I get it: you’re likely upset that the snobby critics thumbed their nose at some movie you really liked. It sucks when people hate on something that’s special to you; I get that. But it only sucks for like one second; then you can close out of the tab & never think about it again.

In time, you’re going to realize that it doesn’t matter what a cartoon tomato bar on the internet says about a piece of art you like. What resonates with you is all that matters.

I know my own movie-watching behavior changed a lot of with RT. I'd avoid any movie that had less than a certain score and gravitate to the ones that had a higher score.

I can see how a movie having a shitty RT score could be impactful to the film makers.

I don't use RT so much anymore (avoid a lot of reviews, honestly) because it killed the fun for me. I'd rather discover my love for a movie than have my expectations set up front.

Feels like you got beef with rotten tomatos. They are trash for sure but this feels personal.