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This has a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
posted by A to ZSTAFFMOD on February 22, 2017 at 1:50 PM
The film was watchable, but mediocre at best. I guess it does what it says on the tin, but when it comes to a Tranformers film, critics don't seem to have the same low bar. I don't know if that site is getting worse, or studios have cottoned on to the fact that RT can affect a films box office and are starting to give incentives for RT approved critics to give favourable reviews...it just seems like since the second half of last year a lot of bad to mediocre films seem to be getting inflated ratings on that site. Lego Batman, Moana, Rogue One. It used to seem like 90% was a tough bar to reach. Deadpool didn't manage it. And a small movie like Split is at 75%. While it's not a great film, surely it deserves more praise than Lego Batman, John Wick and Rogue One?
Reply by Rickers
on May 8, 2017 at 12:12 AM
I agree. It was okay, I guess. Nothing special.
Reply by BarkingBaphomet
on June 7, 2017 at 9:43 PM
how does Rotten Tomatoes work?
Reply by Renovatio
on June 7, 2017 at 10:44 PM
John Wick was a sleeper hit... I don't think anyone saw it coming... It's like the first Alien movie, a genre movie that takes off
I get why audiences loved it... i think people were just starved for a good old fashion live action beat 'em up kung-fu type movie... not some bloodless CGI fest about comic book heros and toys and such...
John Wick is visceral and immidiate in a way that movies haven't been for a long time... it's also not self-serious, meta, self-referential or any of the other navel-gazing nonesense that passes for entertainment nowadays... It's the anti-TV movie... It is unconcerned with convying information...
You need to know his motivation? They killed his dog... Plot? He'll kill them all... Writing done, now lets make a movie!
Having said all of that, I do think the studios have figured out Rotten Tomatoes and realise that they can "buy" the critics "consensus" through giving them access and privilidge as well as by pandering to their ideologies... if the critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes is a % of critics that thought the movie wss "Fresh", not how good they think it is then a movie just has to be inoffensive and agreeable to critics to get a very high rating...
There are a few exceptions, but few critics veer very far from the consensus... I can only think of a few
The "other" site shutting down its message boards is part of this... the large corporatioms that make movies want to control the media narrative...