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Rotten Tomatoes Score of 100%...is it skewed?

posted 6 years ago by bjensen4 (1281)
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RT said it was going to keep negative reviews from flooding the score, but how many of the positive scores are from people who are in fear of being branded a racist and having their careers as a movie reviewer ruined? I never saw this much effort to keep a movie from being negatively reviewed when Blade, Django Unchained, 12 Years a Slave, Jackie Brown (All of which I thoroughly enjoyed) came out.

Are we at the point now where a movie about a totally fictional character from a totally fictional country is being held at the movie industry's throats due to fear of racism for an honest review if it's negative?

[–] lordbishop34 (1442) 6 years ago

I have said it in other posts, you have to consider that reviewers from media are much like a lot of media. They are bias a certain way and a film like this with a minority lead will probably get a better review merely for its lead and casting choices. Is it a masterpiece? highly unlikely, but the movie may still be very good regardless. I am hoping we are not getting the complete disconnect we got with TLJ and Black Panther is actually a good film as a whole. I am looking forward to seeing it myself.

[–] NorrinRad (5042) 6 years ago

As off the 80th review, of which 79 are Fresh, Black Panther has achieved the coveted Certification!

Congratulations to those involved on crafting such a well received movie!

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Typical to pick on the Irish for the one rotten review. It got 3 out of 5 stars and would technically be fresh but, sod' em - it's the Irish.

Who has ever picked on the Irish before?

[–] NorrinRad (5042) 6 years ago

ypical to pick on the Irish for the one rotten review. It got 3 out of 5 stars and would technically be fresh but, sod' em - it's the Irish.

Who is picking on the Irish????

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Rotten Tomatoes.

Did you read the one review which seemingly brought it down to 99% which they claimed was rotten even though there were only 80 reviews in total?

[–] NorrinRad (5042) 6 years ago

Yes I did. I actually posted part of the review in another thread of mine. https://moviechat.org/tt1825683/Black-Panther/5a7a6e07588aef00142e68f6/Will-the-1st-Negative-BP-Critic-Reviewer-be-branded-a-Hero

Given the math of 1 out of 80 that would bring the total down to 99% or 79/80. Really it is 98.75% and then rounded up. But how is Rottentomatoes picking on the Irish? The review was actually the one and only rotten review that was posted. The fact that the reviewer was Irish was only coincidental.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Firstly Ed Powers gave a favourable review of 3/5 and so that props it up into the fresh category but someone, somewhere didn't want to have to final review so shiny when they know that it won't wash with anyone and so they picked this review to bring it down.

Secondly Ed is Irish and so picking on him in 2018 is almost identical to picking on him in 1918 or 1818 or any 18 before that, it's racist!

Lastly, I'm not sure how you get that four fifths of one hundred missing a fabricated negative score manage to make a 99% positive one. If "Per Cent" is what they are aiming at then they should respect that language that cent comes from and up their count to one hundred instead of eighty.

Why not just stick to Mark Kermode and leave it at that if we're making a dataset to fit our likings?

For the record, I hope the film is good and am going to see it with that in mind. Whether I pay for it or not though will depend on people's honest opinions because after The Last Jedi I don't trust these reviewer fucks any further than I can throw them.

[–] NorrinRad (5042) 6 years ago

There are four parts to the Rottentomatoes' ratings: The Avg Rating, The Audience or User Rating, the Rottentomatoe Score and finally Certified Fresh/Rotten.

Head on over to the RT site (and I don't mean Russia Today) to clarify some of your misinterpretations of their rating system.

A critic/reviewer provides their review along with a rating in this case Ed's is 3/5. That rating goes into the Avg Rating and in this case is 8.4/10. 3/5 is borderline and is indeed more often than not a Fresh Rating but the tenor of the review is indeed Rotten.

1 Rotten and 79 Fresh is still going to be 99% Fresh.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

In my opinion that is a flawed rating system.

But I will await the user reviews before I am set on saying that I think the results are skewed.