Rottentomatoes shut in6/17/2023 ![]() ![]() Many acclaimed works don’t get the best audience reception, either because these works are challenging and demanding, or they’re far too unconventional for someone newer to experimental or arthouse leaning works. I purposefully left in the audience score this time to make a point. One of the 2000’s greatest epics is deemed a work that “strains to connect”. Here is what the bulk of its original reception looks like (keep in mind a small percentage of this rating does come from more recent reviews). Now, the Academy is considerably insane for having never awarded Kubrick for his work. Sure, they got a number of Academy Awards nominations, but none of these films ever took home major wins. 2001, Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, and other massive works were given a hard time (outside of the respect for the technical wizardry on these films) when they first came out by the masses. Then again, thus is the case for borderline every Kubrick film post Spartacus. When released, the reception was much more split. Eyes Wide Shut has been widely reconsidered to be a powerful final statement by Stanley Kubrick. Let’s provide an example so you know what I mean. Even the wonky IMDb user rating scale has a better reflection of the current state of a film’s legacy (and you know a system is broken when the IMDb user set up is more reliable). We have reached a point in Rotten Tomatoes’ lifetime where films that are getting old enough to be reassessed aren’t being displayed in such a way. These films received their ratings, and the current state of their percentages have likely not budged much at all, considering the bulk of these reviews came upon release. Look back at the earliest modern reviews found on Rotten Tomatoes. With all of this in mind, here is my concern. Just don’t expect the over three hundred reviews the Avengers franchise can accumulate for each film. Rotten Tomatoes also allows reviews of older films you will notice the amounts are usually much more scant, given the many different variables (how many online journals can reflect on newer films, what reviews can be used from many years ago, and more). Rotten Tomatoes specializes in reviews of newly released films, correct? You’re curious about a flick you want to catch, so you head on over to the great R. Well, there is one area of concern I haven’t seen anyone really discuss yet, but it becomes apparent to me more and more every passing day. You don’t know how negatively a successful site’s impact can affect an industry until that success has staying power and control. We have to live through the experience to discover all of the flaws, since most of these problems can’t be foreseeable. Considering that the platform is just over twenty years old, we’re still seeing the side effects of a newer method of medium critiquing. Thus far, Dark Knight Rises has scored an 87 percent “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes despite Fine’s critique of the movie as “nonsensical” and other unflattering reviews.As many of you are aware, review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes has come under fire for a number of reasons this decade: influence on the overall box office market, the ability to chastise unreleased works until preratings were removed (which resulted in a huge backlash from users), and other issues. ![]() ![]() “We may do away with comments completely or get to a place where comments are only activated after a movie opens,” he said. Here’s their chance to get their rocks off at someone they don’t know.”Īccording to the AP, Rotten Tomatoes could switch to a commenting system like on Facebook, where anonymous posts are curtailed. Is it unfortunate that this is the way people express themselves? Well, yeah, I think it’s a measure of how powerless people feel in this society in general. People have strong feelings about this stuff. Otherwise everyone’s entitled to their opinion. “I guess to me it crosses a line if someone shows up on my front step,” Fine said in an interview with Indiewire. After film critic Marshall Fine posted his assessment of Dark Knight Rises, he received death threats as commenters spewed venom on Rotten Tomatoes and on Fine’s website, Hollywood and Fine, causing it to crash amid the flood of traffic. Rotten Tomatoes is owned by, a community-based movie site owned by Warner Bros., the studio behind Dark Knight Rises.īatman superfans are not only disputing the tone of critics’ reviews - they’re complaining about spoilers, too. VIDEO: ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Premiere: Christian Bale Mourns Trilogy’s End, Tom Hardy Talks BaneĬhristopher Nolan‘s epic trilogy ends Friday with The Dark Knight Rises, inarguably the biggest film of the summer co-starring Christian Bale as Batman, Tom Hardy as villain Bane and Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. ![]()
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