![]() What the Tomatometer score absolutely isn’t for is to be wielded around like a cudgel, used to back up petty arguments online. You’d be surprised at the number of people who don’t get this. That impressive looking 90% just means that 90% of critics gave it a passing grade i.e. The score merely tells us the consensus between critics – how many agree that the movie is Fresh. RT takes all the reviews, sorts them by “Fresh” or “Rotten” and comes up with a percentage. If something gets a 90%, it must be a pretty damn good movie, right? Sort of. It’s tempting to see the site’s patented Tomatometer score as the numeric value of the movie. The trouble is that I feel that most of those people misinterpret the data. Recent numbers have shown that 36% of American moviegoers check the site before seeing a movie, which is a significant portion of the audience. I fucking hate how people use Rotten Tomatoes. Plus, would they actually admit it if their site had been spammed by bots? Something ain’t adding up. ![]() All of the reviews were left by active accounts.” The whole “active accounts” thing strikes me as conveniently vague phrase. ![]() Rotten Tomatoes have refuted this, saying “ We closely monitor our platforms and haven’t determined there to be any problems. As some perceptive people pointed out, whilst the critic review score is at 0%, the user review score was at 78% (now dropped to 64%).Īlarm bells started ringing when the below tweet appeared from the movie’s Twitter account:Īudiences loved Gotti but critics don’t want you to see it… The question is why? Trust the people and see it for yourself! /K6a9jAO4UHĬonsidering the disproportionate number of user reviews and the multitude of newly created profiles that had given Gotti a rating, it looked like this was review manipulation as part of a marketing push for the movie. ![]() Travolta starring in a stinker is nothing new, but the intrigue comes with the movie’s Rotten Tomatoes score. Don’t know if you’ve kept up to date with the moviesphere recently, but there’s been a little bit of a stir about Gotti, the John Travolta starring mob flick which has garnered savage reviews.
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