A PR firm has been manipulating the Rotten Tomato scores of movies for at least five years by paying some “critics” directly.
https://www.vulture.com/article/rotten-tomatoes-movie-rating.html
It doesn't surprise me. Money talks, and is the be-all and end-all of life today. Really sad.
shareIt doesn't surprise me. Money talks, and is the be-all and end-all of life today. Really sad.
sharei assume they work for the studios
share"fort the studios"??
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try and use your joined up thinking to try and work out by context and extrapolation what hownos meant .
tip: you could also look at a qwerty keyboard layout.
I think I've got it , but I'll wait for other opinions first
He's always been a nitpicky idiot! 🙄
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Chill, bro. I was just messin' with'im.
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I could have told you that. You pay a critic enough money, they'll say whatever you want about a specific movie. Just look at what they said in their reviews of the 2016 Ghostbusters film before it came out.
Also, Rotten Tomatoes got mad when people told the truth about some films they didn't like, and they had their tech geeks manipulate ratings (particularly if the movie company producing the box office bomb wanted to skew numbers in their favor and paid RT in secret). They even would turn off reviews for certain films in recent years because they just assumed people would review bomb it for no reason other than bigotry. Never mind if the film sucked.
Frankly, I lost faith in Rotten Tomatoes telling the truth 7 years ago when I started hearing about them fudging the numbers in exchange for bribes from different movie companies.
Hogwash! RT ratings have always seemed spot on to me. This is more incriminating for Vulture.
shareI'm sure no one will have any trouble believeing this ,
Espeially as these days people will write off literally any authority saying "Follow duh moneee . derp . "
Any one from NASA to the CDC to worldwide science consortuims like CERN will have their findings dismissed by a populace dumbed down by social media conspiracy theories.
Doctors dont want to cure you - they would get less money .
.. So yeah , a bunch of basement dwelling amatuer critics who arnt holding the cradle of human knowledge or the reponsibility of public health will have no trouble taking $50 to brighten up their review of a movie.
From the article:
This is probably because Rotten Tomatoes — with help from Yelp, Goodreads, and countless other review aggregators — has desensitized us to the opinions of individual critics.
I pay maybe slight attention to imdb, but truly, i get my reviews from the mrqe listings, NYT, Guardian, Ebert, major dailies.
Rotten tomatoes always seemed hokey. I usually did find the variances between critics and audience ratings interesting, though. That's something they do that adds value.