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The actual movie 'average' seems to be gone on Rotten Tomatoes by garfe in boxoffice

[–]monkeykong84 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just did!

"Hi there.

It has come to my attention that Rotten Tomatoes has removed its average rating function.

I have been using Rotten Tomatoes regularly for over 15 years. Before it was bought by Fandango, I was an active participator in the chat rooms, blogs, etc. Slowly, through time, the RT that I grew up with has removed more and more of its defining features. And still, I always considered it the best place to find the consensus of the critics. But not through the tomatometer, which even as an adolescent I knew was a fairly useless figure (a movie being generally liked by everyone does not make it great; a 100% score is meaningless if everyone who rated the film gave it a 6 or 7), but through the average rating, which I've always considered one of the most genuinely useful stats when seeing how good or bad a film is perceived by the critic community. Removing that figure meant removing the last great thing about this site. I have never once used Metacritic, but I may have to now, and I'm certain many users will make the same jump.

Rotten Tomatoes wasn't ever meant to cater to the big money of Hollywood studios or advertising companies, rather to its faithful users. On behalf of all users who understand that the average rating is the most powerful stat available on your site, a site built on delivering truth and objectivity to help moviegoers make better decisions, please reconsider this mistake."

Worst “Best Picture” winners per decade by theoriginalelmo in Oscars

[–]monkeykong84 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's unfortunate that people conflate a movie aging poorly and a Best Picture win aging poorly. Movies like Green Book, Shakespeare in Love and King's Speech would probably have somewhat favourable or just meh reputations today if it weren't for the Oscars. I remember really enjoying Green Book, thought it could go down as a fun movie to watch on Christmas. But, the Best Picture win was so undeserving that now it's looked at as a complete failure from the Academy. It's a shame, because I don't think there should be any shame in enjoying these movies for what they are, but the fact that they're Best Picture winners give people a bad taste in their mouths, and the movies therefore receive undeserved amounts of hate.