Post by Caesium137 on Feb 27, 2019 10:21:39 GMT
I disagree. RT only became a thing after mcu movies. the site has been around since the 90s and no one cared.
I have been around since the first xmen, spiderman, harry potter, batman reboot 2005, lord of the rings films even hellboy films.
not many people cared about what scores this movies had on rotten tomatoes. you knew what made them good or bad. eg. why does X3 kind of suck to X2? X3 has poor story telling and focused more on action scenes. X2 is a compelling movie with action scenes only being there to support the strong screenplay the movie had.
Ask most mcu fans why age of ultorn is the worst avengers movie. they will give you rt numbers.
MCU fans and the media made RT a thing and now the site has been exposed for what it is.
I think it was a great strategy for MCU, to make people ignore the story telling or artistic merit of a movie and just focus on % mark that tells you nothing in depth. only it usually blows up in their faces although not as bad as captain marvel or maybe black panther did last year and beleive me, I care about diversity but not at the expense of overriding the true merit of a movie.
Well thats what I was getting at, in the modern age as in the start of this decade the critical consensus on RT has been growing importance almosto the lengths of diety worship. Previous to around 2010 I agree that there was ambivalent feelings towards the website. Whether this has anything to do with Disney or the explosion of superhero movies I'm not so sure but there is a noticable overlap of when big blockbuster movies started breaking box office records like the Avengers and Star Wsrs TFA to the sudden rise in the quotations of citing rotten tomatoe scores.