RT Audience Score Rigged Again

People are focusing on the RT ratings as if it was the holy graal.

I just said, these ratings are the same all around the world not especially on RT and not especially in the USA.

 

Nah, it's definitely not the end-all/be-all of these ratings, for sure. I'm sure some people just legitimately disliked it.

Just as I'm sure there was some bandwagoning going on, as well.

I'm not sure that the ratings apparently being the same across the globe is necessarily indicative of much though, especially with how easy it is to access a VPN.

 

This is really much work for nothing really important. I won't personnally waste my time to do that but it is convenient to think some people would do it ...

Why just for The Last Jedi ? Good question !! And 'they' also have the tools to write the reviews in different language. It is really powerful.

BTW, I blame Colin Powell. Since he lied to the world for Iraq nobody trusts the information anymore except when it goes the good way.

 

What do you mean these ratings are the same all around? Of course RT are the same all over the world. Now as for other ratings they arent the same. Only RT is really low.

 

Actually no.

2,9/5 here and believe me it is very low. Solo is 3,7. TFA is 3.7. Rogue One is 4.2.

Justice League is 3.5 for example and it is not a very good movie. Infinty Wars is 4.5 and Pixar's Coco is 4.6.

http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=215099.html

 

UPDATE (June 15, 2018)

Solo: A Star Wars Story
IMDb: 7.2
IMDb (unweighted): 7.2
Metacritic: 6.1
Rotten Tomatoes: 7.0
Rotten Tomatoes (liked): 65%
Letterboxd: 6.5
Amazon: 7.2
Amazon (unweighted): 7.2
BestBuy: 8.6
Google (liked): 83%
Vudu: 8.49
Apple iTunes: 8.4
Group 1 average: 7.39
Douban (China): 7.0
Mtime (China): 7.1
Allocine (France): 7.4
Filmstarts (Germany): 7.4
MyMovies (Italy): 6.62
Yahoo! (Japan): 8.00 (it's technically not released there yet)
Daum (South Korea): 7.1
Filmaffinity (Spain): 6.3
Amazon (U.K.): 7.6
Amazon (U.K) (unweighted): 7.8
Group 2 average: 7.23
Overall average: 7.32

 

That sounds pretty darn accurate.

 

Les "haters" ont appris la langue française assez vite, non? Quelle magie.

 

This. People saying the numbers are rigged are just cherry picking what stats they want to accept based on their own opinions and biases.

Is there a margin of error in an RT score? Sure. But when a movie comes in at 46% audience score, that's demonstrating beyond a reasonable doubt that a great number of people who saw it didn't like it.

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They've actually taken steps to prevent rigging. They know how important their ratings are.

As I mentioned above, it is fair to assign some margin of error to their scores... but outright rigging? Nope. That's just the lament of people who don't like what the numbers say.

 

And many very reasonable people have explained in great detail why they were wrong and how RT takes measures to prevent rigged scores.

Really, it's OK. You enjoyed a movie that a lot of people did but also quite a large number of people didn't. No big deal.

 

Amazing. Every word of what you just said..... was wrong.

 

and rotten tomatoes is AGAIN in the eye of the storm, now this time with Gotti https://gizmodo.com/rotten-tomatoes-says-theres-nothing-weird-about-gottis-1826980164

 

Yeah, noticed that yesterday.

Again, I don't think there's any way to accurately measure the flaws of Rotten Tomatoes.

But to say that there aren't flaws is just to turn a blind eye to stuff like this. It's a horrible system, and to judge a film's merit off of it is to do a disservice to yourself.

 

Not to sound like a special snowflake, but so many of the films rated "meh" (especially older films) on RottenTomatoes are the ones that have really resonated with me. A good example of that is Solo, but even classic films like Hook apply (actually, a lot of 90s films have average or below average reviews). On the other hand, films universally "loved" by critics, at least by RT metrics, sometimes escape me with their appeal. Moral of the story: see films for yourself, not based on what critics are saying.

 

so you haven't heard that critics put a hit out on GOTTI?

 

Solo came out in Japan today...er, yesterday, technically (pesky time zones and international date line!)