All year long, film culture has been paying way too much attention to Rotten Tomatoes scores. In the end, any site that leads to a reduction of a film to binary terms such as Fresh and Rotten, is adding nothing to the conversation around movies. At best, it’s a guide, helping audiences to see what the general critical response to a picture might be. Yet, in an era where Twitter arguments demand that you choose a side, Rotten Tomatoes is just one arsenal in the hands of people looking to defend or critique a picture.
This a long way of saying that the Rotten Tomatoes score for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi“ (as of the time of publication) for critics has landed at 93%, with the audience score way down at 58%. Uh oh! What does this mean?? Well, of the many people who saw the movie last night, and the fraction of those who decided to log their score on Rotten Tomatoes, nearly half didn’t like the movie. And/or, a bunch of people are just trolling Rotten Tomatoes. Or maybe those who didn’t like the movie voiced their discontent more loudly online than those who liked it. Who knows?
But here’s the good thing: you can still enjoy or anticipate a movie, even if the Rotten Tomatoes score doesn’t sync with your taste! I’m sure Disney might be looking at the score, but in the end, the company will probably sleep just fine as nearly a half billion dollars roll into the box office for ‘The Last Jedi’ this weekend. That said, audience scores for blockbusters usually aren’t this low.
For what it’s worth, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” audience scores were lower than critics (93% versus 88%), while it was higher for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” (84% versus 87%). And then there’s “Justice League“, which landed at 40% for critics and 80% for audiences. Clearly, numbers mean nothing.
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What the fuck is “Rotten Tomatoes” ?
Aw gosh, ya – just kidding. But – Who in the hell would go there before seeing a movie ? Haven’t looked at that site once. Ever. Name says it all
Would be similar to coming to this site for an opinion if you were looking to watch a Marvel series on Netflix…
You, like apparently most people, don’t seem to know what Rotten Tomatoes actually is. It’s an aggregate site, meaning it doesn’t actually review films, it just compiles reviews from other sites and assigns a rating based on the averages.
Right, but the aggregate is suspicious this time.
I’m curious to see if there’s some 4Chan thread telling people to troll the audience results.
Its not suspicious, thats Disney trying to counter the disgruntled
customers who paid for something and didnt get their moneys worth – actually just simple as that.
Clarify “trying to counter”?
It’s not suspicious at all. Rotten Tomatoes have said they investigated the score to see if tampering had been going on and found no evidence that it had. Some people just don’t think it’s a good film.
Then how did it grab a 92 percent
Because that’s the critic score. They liked it so it has a 92% rating from critics. The audience score was significantly lower.
why are you wasting my time with this? the critic’s score was the aggregate I initially called suspicious. I don’t need to have rotten tomatoes explained to me in 2017. If you’re not going to read the threads, why post your worthless comments on them?
You’re wasting your own time misconstruing my comment. I did read the thread, the aggregate is not suspicious, RT have said so. You don’t seem to be able to accept not everyone loved it.
Ha! I’m one of those people who didn’t love it! This certainly is a waste of my time, but the misconstruing is all you licious.
Its not suspicious, thats Disney trying to counter the disgruntled customers who paid for something and didnt get their moneys worth.
Let’s all give Dheep a big pat on the back for his amazing restraint
I’ll take glowing reviews from respected film critics over the consternated pissings of disgruntled fanboys or clueless walk-ins.
The movie is kind of a mess. It has some of the best moments of the series, definitely, but there’s a disconnect between its critical reception and the good but wonky film itself. It’s like every other bloated blockbuster out there. And it makes the Force Awakens look positively slick and streamlined by comparison.
It is a pretty rough film, unfortunately…
Sorry to say – its not hardcore white fanboys having angerfits. Or trolls from Russia meddling with a huge american moviecompany. Its just REAL true fans that once fell in love with a saga and now finds this movie to be… utter crap. I did. And Im not a russian agent or a troll.
After seeing this audience score, I will not be seeing the Last Jedi in movie theaters. I tend to agree with an audience score more than the critics score in general. I can wait for it to come out on Netflix. I just saw Rogue One on Netflix and enjoyed it. It’s a shame they’re too busy making out-of-touch movies enjoyed by critics but despised by the average audience member. DISGRACEFUL!
Your loss
You don’t have any idea what you’re talking about, you even announced it. Nobody cares that you’re saving yourself 15 bucks.
Good decision
I liked Rogue One, too. I’m not all that interested in seeing this film.
I have yet to talk to anyone I know IRL that didn’t like it (both hard core fans and casuals).
I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m starting to think people are trolling rottentomatoes as some kind of payback for low scoring DC movies.
That is odd.
Especially considering that star wars would seem to have the kind of built in audience that somethings do that just never fails regardless of quality or not.
Just built in star wars super fans.
But it should be no big secret that critics can be an elitist group of people who don’t necessarily relate to or respect the average audience for the medium that they’re supposed to be experts in. Let alone when we’re talking about genre entertainment that highfalutin metropolitan critics have ALWAYS held a traditional disdain for to the point of no grasp or understanding for its qualities. They judge genre entertainment on a scale of THINGS OTHER then its quality as genre entertainment.
But there might be something even more on display to this stark discord between the audience and the professional critic.
Oh please, if anyone’s demonstrating a disconnect from reality it’s you. Hifalutin? Cinema has never been a high art form and critics would be the first to recognize that. What exactly is “always feeling traditional disdain for to the point of no grasp or understanding for its qualities”?? use words much?
Yes save your money. It was really bad. When you see that many true Star Wars fan saying is bad you listen.