Rotten Tomatoes disgraced over Captain Marvel.

Rotten Tomatoes disgraced over Captain Marvel. Feb 27, 2019 20:36:26 GMT coldenhaulfield likes this

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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2019 20:36:26 GMT

Feb 27, 2019 20:30:26 GMT coldenhaulfield said:

Feb 27, 2019 20:19:20 GMT @cat said:

Welcome to my world, or at least part of it. Nothing about Marvel or the MCU is the straw that broke the camel's back, but I've been on about Rotten Tomatoes for years. Probably since the first time I saw a movie rated 100%. That's impossible, goddammit. Every bit as unrealistic as being rated 0.

I understand the algorithm makes it work, but it does not work for me to see unreasonably high ratings for regular movies. High and low ratings tell me something. 0 and 100 tell me nothing.

Last month I recommended my friend a movie to download, so he did, then before we watched it he mentioned apparently it's at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, which bodes well for it. I recommended it and even thought ugh, that's stupid.

I guess that's why there's a critic score and audience score and even though I don't like the algorithm, the gap between them sometimes is more telling than either rating alone.

IMDb I generally find is more accurate, but not inscrutable either.

Here's what RT should've done. I expressed this privately to a friend the other day, and the more I've thought about it the more certain I am that this would've eliminated a lot problems for them going forward: let the percentage stand at whatever it's going to wind up at by the time of CM's release; then, when the movie came out to the usual acclaim of MCU fans and the box office success that reliably accompanies it, they could've credibly claimed that the metric clearly failed the statistical standard for validity and wasn't reliably measuring what it was supposed to and, therefore, removed the feature under the pretense that they're retooling it. And then just never brought it back. No drama, Obama. Innit?

ETA: can you think of a better way to've handled it?

That makes sense to me.