#ROTTENTOMATOES SHUT IN MOVIE#
According to Gomes, Rotten Tomatoes skews movie scores in favor of "Disney blockbuster movies," which include The Last Jedi, rather than non-Disney films. Users are giving The Last Jedi an F grade and critics are giving it an A grade, so which is it? Are the critics scoring the movies to appease the studios?Īndre Gomes from Poland started a new petition to get Rotten Tomatoes shut down for having a deeply flawed audience and critical aggregate system. While the prequel numbers are pretty similar in terms of critic and user scores, the latest movies show quite a big gap. Even The Phantom Menace has a user score of 59% and Attack of the Clones has a 57%. The Last Jedi currently has a 91% critical rating while the user rating is at 52%, making it the lowest rated Star Wars movie on the site. While The Last Jedi continues to divide the fan base, the movie is still cranking at the box office, even after a 77% percent drop from opening weekend, which is the worst drop off in the franchise's long history. the fan scores on the site, with critics standing behind Rian Johnson's fresh take on the Star Wars universe and the majority of fans hating on the movie. There has been a lot of talk about the critic scores vs. Have a little compassion.The Last Jedi continues to be divisive amongst Star Wars fans and a new petition has been started to get rid of Rotten Tomatoes for their flawed reviewing system because of it. We’ve all loved something that wasn’t so well received by the general public, and we know how disappointing that can be.
And the fact that a great deal of it came from people who are ostensibly adults is pretty sad. The hate being flung at this poor dude for simply defending something he’s passionate about is entirely unwarranted.
#ROTTENTOMATOES SHUT IN PROFESSIONAL#
There was no hate involved on the professional end. A, it was never going to achieve its goal, and B, the critics were simply calling a spade a spade. However, if I may interject my personal thoughts for a moment: Yes, this petition was probably a bad idea from the word go. Also, Suicide Squad looks legitimately bad, in this writer’s opinion. It was a lost cause from the very beginning. It wouldn’t matter if President Obama, the Pope, and Joss Whedon all signed it. Rotten Tomatoes is a hugely popular site, with millions of people each week basing where their theater bucks will go on the number next to the little red tomato. So, unsurprisingly, he decided to remove the petition, which was probably wise. Poor Abdullah was raked over the coals, being called everything from “entitled whiner” on the mild end of the spectrum, to “basement-dwelling fantard” on the other. As always, the anonymity of the internet emboldened the haters to fling verbal poo at those they deem unworthy. The comments, however, were where the claws came out. I personally saw stories from a dozen different websites in my timeline yesterday. The movies are something to enjoy, and the hate and fighting is the opposite of enjoying.”ĭuring its few hours of life, the petition attracted a great deal of attention. And the only thing it does is spreading a speech of hate and online fighting among the supporters and objectors.
After thinking, I found the petition pointless. I didn’t mean it to be taken so seriously. “In fact, I started this petition to gather DC fans to express our anger just for fun. I didn’t expect the hate from all the objectors,” the 22 year old Egyptian DC fan told me. “My aim was, if the critics were not accurate, I wanted it to be fair. He simply never expected it to become such a Big Thing. He is shocked by the responses he received, both positive and negative.
Now he has decided to remove the petition. So, despite the fact that his petition garnered over 17,000 signatures in less than 48 hours, the internet collectively lost its shit, unloading on the unsuspecting fan with standard keyboard warrior vitriol. They also allow for fan ratings and reviews, which are often more positive than those from professional critics. However, the fact is that Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t actually review films themselves – they simply use an algorithm to gauge the percentage of positive reviews from a variety of critics. (The vast majority are in the 80s and 90s.) By contrast, every single film in the MCU is “Fresh,” meaning that it has a score of 60% or better. He felt it was unfairly biased against DC movies, having given Man of Steel a rating of 55%, Batman v Superman 27%, and Suicide Squad 31% – all numbers that add up to “Rotten” ratings. Frustrated with the unexpectedly negative reviews for this weekend’s Suicide Squad, which led to a dismal rating on the popular film review site Rotten Tomatoes, he created a petition on calling on the powers that be to shut the page down. DCU fan Abdullah Saleh had no idea what he was getting himself into.
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