24 Replies to “The Tragic Downfall of Rotten Tomatoes”
Watched it twice already. Even better second time through.
Even the parts that were “leftwing” were still good … no cringe at all.
And any SDA regular will love the Juicy Smoolyeah part.
Agreed, brillant comedy. I have seen George Carlin live a number of times and Chappelle reminded me of that kind of fearlessness in comedy.
I find it interesting a left leaning Bernie Bro, Tim Pool, has become the voice of reason and a strong advocate for balance in reporting.
As for rotten tomatoes they have been playing games for a while now. Instead of being an aggregator they have become political. Like snopes, once was good, now terrible.
Rotten Tomatoes is nothing more than a measure for how well a movie pushes far-left political messages at this point
I’m not convinced RT was ever that useful.
What happens when reviewers do not give reviews that consumers find helpful, but instead use their reviews to advance their politics? In the long run, their services aren’t of much value except to a small minority.
Not a good career move.
It’s working for university professors. And has worked for a long time for the news media.
I can still use those reviews. I find it easy enough to read that if they don’t like it, I probably will.
If they reviewers seem more troubled by the politics of the work than anything else, then yes, it’s useful.
D’ya wanna get a 99% Rotten Tomato score for your film? Make sure you film includes at least 4 of the following plot themes … yes, they can be mixed into one film … the more the better
– Racist Southern town in 1930’s abuse and ostracize blacks
– Gay coming of age story, with lots of anal sex
– Lesbian coming of age story, with lots of scissoring
– Racist Southern townsfolk in the 1870’s lynch innocent black man
– Black heroine wins the spelling bee, with the help of her gang banging-ghetto neighbors
– A beautiful, smart, highly educated female Muslim faces racist Izlamophobia.
– FBI undercover agent infiltrates white supremacist Nazi group
– A young girl is sexually abused by members of a Nazi group she is trying to escape
– A shy, high school gay boy on the dance team is bullied by the homophobic football team
– College professor challenges conservative upper middle class students to reject their parents
– An abortion saves a woman’s college career, and she becomes a Supreme Court Justice
– An unplanned pregnancy throws a woman’s life into chaos, and the child is taken from her.
– A pedophile Priest grooms young alter boys for anal sex with lots of lube – violent sex scenes
– A young adolescent first realizes he’s attracted to boys – beautiful, loving, gentle, sex scenes
– An angry, viciously mean Nun forces girls to give birth to their unplanned children.
– A racist Southern Preacher conspires to stop black people from voting
– A highly educated idealist saves Amazonian Tribe from soybean farming Corp.
– Oil company executives are caught hiding Co2 dangers and sent to Prison for life
– A First Ladies nutrition program causes schoolkids to lose weight and have more sex.
– A group of high school girls start a sex club, and their grades all go up.
– Strict parents lose control of their valedictorian daughter when she starts having sex.
– A racist Southern high school teacher forces black girls to have sex with him – violent sex scenes
– Colonialist Catholic explorers murder and rape loving, gentle, native tribes – violence, murder
– Colonialist Catholic explorers rape the land, women, and expunge native gods and beliefs.
– Racist homophobic Baptist minister has a black mistress who he abuses – racism, sexual violence
I stream most videos using VUDU (best video/audio quality), and I use the Tomatometer ratings as an inverse indicator of my interest in films. Very, very, rarely do I enjoy a film with a high tomatometer rating … and the VUDU member ratings usually run inversely tonthe tomatometer.
ah kenji, lemme guess, list is based on actual flics.
not that I recognize the plot themes . . . . .
prob since I prefer documentaries about geology, astrophysics, live symphonies, history, archeology, REAL stuff
FAR more intriguing than anything hollyweird types fling at us.
I primarily watch the Smithsonian channel, history channel, learning channel, etc. (despite their sickening leftist bias … at least it isn’t insipid make-believe shows touting leftism).
Even RT have noticed that most of the members of the 99 Club are from the 21st century.
Not all of them are easily described in terms of your list, Kenji, but sadly, many are.
Very good list Kenji, now if you want to bring that 99% to a 100% you need to set all those events against the backdrop of man made global warming.
An anti-indicator, very useful! Like how you can get pretty close to what will happen in the future by predicting the opposite of what Paul Ehrlich says will happen.
When the Eiberts were on the air they were my perfect anti rating….if they hated it I’d probably enjoy it immensely and vice versa….haven’t found a critic(s) as good as they were since they went if the air
Always works for me: If the critics are down and the public are up, I break out the popcorn and sit down to see.
I found it hilarious. Wasn’t fond of the pedophilia jokes but, besides those, a scream. I’ve much preferred Metacritic to RT for a long time now.
Who is David Chappelle?
Richard Pryor’s Godson?
The top to critic reviews are from Salon, and Slate.
Enough said.
Did listen to Mr Chappelle’s extended rant. Found the language rather off-putting, but overall very much enjoyed the message.
Meh, after reading the comments above I gave it a try. Yes. he is fearless. Yes, he is non-PC, pity he is not funny. The vulgarity of language does not bother me, the primitive vulgarity of delivery, the utter lack of subtlety does bother me.
Watched it twice already. Even better second time through.
Even the parts that were “leftwing” were still good … no cringe at all.
And any SDA regular will love the Juicy Smoolyeah part.
Agreed, brillant comedy. I have seen George Carlin live a number of times and Chappelle reminded me of that kind of fearlessness in comedy.
I find it interesting a left leaning Bernie Bro, Tim Pool, has become the voice of reason and a strong advocate for balance in reporting.
As for rotten tomatoes they have been playing games for a while now. Instead of being an aggregator they have become political. Like snopes, once was good, now terrible.
Rotten Tomatoes is nothing more than a measure for how well a movie pushes far-left political messages at this point
I’m not convinced RT was ever that useful.
What happens when reviewers do not give reviews that consumers find helpful, but instead use their reviews to advance their politics? In the long run, their services aren’t of much value except to a small minority.
Not a good career move.
It’s working for university professors. And has worked for a long time for the news media.
I can still use those reviews. I find it easy enough to read that if they don’t like it, I probably will.
If they reviewers seem more troubled by the politics of the work than anything else, then yes, it’s useful.
D’ya wanna get a 99% Rotten Tomato score for your film? Make sure you film includes at least 4 of the following plot themes … yes, they can be mixed into one film … the more the better
– Racist Southern town in 1930’s abuse and ostracize blacks
– Gay coming of age story, with lots of anal sex
– Lesbian coming of age story, with lots of scissoring
– Racist Southern townsfolk in the 1870’s lynch innocent black man
– Black heroine wins the spelling bee, with the help of her gang banging-ghetto neighbors
– A beautiful, smart, highly educated female Muslim faces racist Izlamophobia.
– FBI undercover agent infiltrates white supremacist Nazi group
– A young girl is sexually abused by members of a Nazi group she is trying to escape
– A shy, high school gay boy on the dance team is bullied by the homophobic football team
– College professor challenges conservative upper middle class students to reject their parents
– An abortion saves a woman’s college career, and she becomes a Supreme Court Justice
– An unplanned pregnancy throws a woman’s life into chaos, and the child is taken from her.
– A pedophile Priest grooms young alter boys for anal sex with lots of lube – violent sex scenes
– A young adolescent first realizes he’s attracted to boys – beautiful, loving, gentle, sex scenes
– An angry, viciously mean Nun forces girls to give birth to their unplanned children.
– A racist Southern Preacher conspires to stop black people from voting
– A highly educated idealist saves Amazonian Tribe from soybean farming Corp.
– Oil company executives are caught hiding Co2 dangers and sent to Prison for life
– A First Ladies nutrition program causes schoolkids to lose weight and have more sex.
– A group of high school girls start a sex club, and their grades all go up.
– Strict parents lose control of their valedictorian daughter when she starts having sex.
– A racist Southern high school teacher forces black girls to have sex with him – violent sex scenes
– Colonialist Catholic explorers murder and rape loving, gentle, native tribes – violence, murder
– Colonialist Catholic explorers rape the land, women, and expunge native gods and beliefs.
– Racist homophobic Baptist minister has a black mistress who he abuses – racism, sexual violence
I stream most videos using VUDU (best video/audio quality), and I use the Tomatometer ratings as an inverse indicator of my interest in films. Very, very, rarely do I enjoy a film with a high tomatometer rating … and the VUDU member ratings usually run inversely tonthe tomatometer.
ah kenji, lemme guess, list is based on actual flics.
not that I recognize the plot themes . . . . .
prob since I prefer documentaries about geology, astrophysics, live symphonies, history, archeology, REAL stuff
FAR more intriguing than anything hollyweird types fling at us.
I primarily watch the Smithsonian channel, history channel, learning channel, etc. (despite their sickening leftist bias … at least it isn’t insipid make-believe shows touting leftism).
Here’s RT’s own list of 99% scoring films.
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/the-99-club/
Even RT have noticed that most of the members of the 99 Club are from the 21st century.
Not all of them are easily described in terms of your list, Kenji, but sadly, many are.
Very good list Kenji, now if you want to bring that 99% to a 100% you need to set all those events against the backdrop of man made global warming.
An anti-indicator, very useful! Like how you can get pretty close to what will happen in the future by predicting the opposite of what Paul Ehrlich says will happen.
When the Eiberts were on the air they were my perfect anti rating….if they hated it I’d probably enjoy it immensely and vice versa….haven’t found a critic(s) as good as they were since they went if the air
Always works for me: If the critics are down and the public are up, I break out the popcorn and sit down to see.
Look at “Hating Breitbart”. QED
Another Tomato-Meter disaster. Ghost Busters II
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ghostbusters_2016
74% Tomato-meter
50% Audience score
I found it hilarious. Wasn’t fond of the pedophilia jokes but, besides those, a scream. I’ve much preferred Metacritic to RT for a long time now.
Who is David Chappelle?
Richard Pryor’s Godson?
The top to critic reviews are from Salon, and Slate.
Enough said.
Did listen to Mr Chappelle’s extended rant. Found the language rather off-putting, but overall very much enjoyed the message.
Meh, after reading the comments above I gave it a try. Yes. he is fearless. Yes, he is non-PC, pity he is not funny. The vulgarity of language does not bother me, the primitive vulgarity of delivery, the utter lack of subtlety does bother me.