The IMDb rating is gone.

Do you think people who go to festivals and professional critics flock to Imdb by the thousands? No, it's trolls who live in mom's garage!

It's not that simple.

Captain Marvel and Eternals have something in common: female directors, female stars. The society always discriminate women, that is why we have "quota" for them: board of directors, congress, Oscars...

The point is: we need to protect women, compare to give them "quota", pull the bad rating from IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes aren't a big deal.

when you have something like dune, where it's open in europe for weeks before the us, then that's an issue for sure.

i don't really see festival releases being a reason to open a film to ratings.

personally, i don't put a lot of stock in imdb ratings at all. i think letterboxd is a much more useful site, if only because it's less commonly referenced and seems less under assault by waves of trolls who have nothing better to do with their time than try to influence film scores.

but if you want genuine audience reaction to films, i think the only two really legitimate sources are cinemascore, who actually ask people as they're leaving the theatre, and the rotten tomato audience score, where they only accept ratings from verified ticket buyers.

everyone else is open to manipulation by fanboys, haters, and everyone in between i believe. if there are others, i'm not aware of them.

Right on the website. Critic rating is there, not viewers.

Oh shit, nevermind. I was thinking RT.