Rotten Tomatoes - Easier to be fresh now a days?

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People comment quite a bit on how Rotten Tomatoes effects movie sales.

I just cruised over there now and saw that 7/10 movies in theaters now are fresh and 5/10 are higher than 90%.

Are critics less critical of movies or is it simply that higher quality movies come out in December?
 
Doesn't require much to become a rottentomatoes critic

Any armchair asshole can do it
 
The problem is the aggregate. If a movie gets a majority of 6/10's, it could reach a stupid high tomatometer. It's always been a problem with how they rate movies, along with letting anyone with a website that has more than ten or so hits a day, have their review counted.

Combine their easy to manipulate system, with studios now using them as a marketing tool, and yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if the meter has been a bit more generous as of late. They already pay reviewers to get the early buzz out there, and RT is more than happy to accommodate them by posting early reviews, and putting an early "Fresh" rating out there.

At the end of the day though, who cares? You either like the movie or you don't. Find a handful of critics you trust, and just stick with them if you need an opinion, and don't go by some silly superficial tomatometer that is nothing but a number.
 
The real test will be the ratings in January.
 
I never used Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic.

Why do you need to read reviews before watching a film? It's a few bucks.
 
There critic base has shifted towards the net that's full of spineless and corrupt sheep.
 
I never used Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic.

Why do you need to read reviews before watching a film? It's a few bucks.
Yeah never understood it
Just because a critic doesn't like it...
Since when do I think like a movie critic?
 
At the end of the day though, who cares? You either like the movie or you don't. Find a handful of critics you trust, and just stick with them if you need an opinion, and don't go by some silly superficial tomatometer that is nothing but a number.


Back in a college economics class, our professor stated that the US's #1 export is not machinery, cars, planes, or petroleum products. Rather, our number one export is our entertainment (movies, TV shows, video games, etc.). After all, you can watch a Hollywood movie anywhere in the world and US sitcoms are on cable TV all over the place.

It's a huge industry. Heck, just looks at how many people are in the credits at the conclusion of a movie.

Lots of money + Lots of jobs = lots of concerns if a major part of the marketing outreach can be so easily manipulated.

If it turns out that Consumer Reports was easily manipulated to make Ford (or Boeing) look good and Honda (or Airbus) to look bad, then it would be a major scandal.
 
Back in a college economics class, our professor stated that the US's #1 export is not machinery, cars, planes, or petroleum products. Rather, our number one export is our entertainment (movies, TV shows, video games, etc.). After all, you can watch a Hollywood movie anywhere in the world and US sitcoms are on cable TV all over the place.

It's a huge industry. Heck, just looks at how many people are in the credits at the conclusion of a movie.

Lots of money + Lots of jobs = lots of concerns if a major part of the marketing outreach can be so easily manipulated.

If it turns out that Consumer Reports was easily manipulated to make Ford (or Boeing) look good and Honda (or Airbus) to look bad, then it would be a major scandal.
Yes, it amazes me how few of my business-savvy friends know that although I believe that porn recently surpassed Hollywood as our most profitable "export".
 
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