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What My Problem is with People and Rotten Tomatoes

Posted in Articles, tagged , , , , , on August 15, 2011| 1 Comment »

Rotten Tomatoes is a website that compiles the reviews of critics for temporary and historical movies.  A simple way of demonstrating whether a movie is good or bad is evident of a movie’s ‘Tomatometer’.  On the outside this Tomatometer determines whether a movie is ‘fresh’ or ‘rotten’, and the website’s frequent visitors can use this as a means of creating an opinion of the film without even watching the movie itself.  Movies with a 60% and above are considered ‘fresh’ and below 60% are considered ‘rotten’.  People sometimes throw this percentage and rating around as if they know how to develop an opinion on a movie.  The small misunderstanding in how the percentage works marks an ignorance of how one should review a movie and in this article, I’ll try to defog the misunderstanding so that you can use Rotten Tomatoes in an effective way to help filter what movies you should watch.

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9 Movies Rotten Tomatoes ‘Rottened’ but I Thoroughly Enjoyed

Posted in Lists, tagged , , , on July 14, 2011| 1 Comment »

I’m very mixed when it comes to the website Rotten Tomatoes.  A website full of over pompous critics that take an hour and a half of their lives to judge what someone spent millions of dollars and weeks to create.  The idea sounds heartless and in truth it really is.  The only issue is that I’m often one of those over pompous critics that will usually agree to the general consensus.  Talk about hindsight.  But critics don’t know everything.  Some movies are simply made to entertain and if they can do that, who cares if there’s nothing deeper or the acting was bad or if the movie was too loud.  [I hate it when Rotten Tomatoes deems a movie too loud, what does that even mean?].  I’ve always believed the critics consensus said more about the movie than the Tomatometer, but that’s another story for another time.  So here’s a list of some movies Rotten Tomatoes deemed ‘rotten’, but I actually enjoyed and wouldn’t mind watching again.  There are probably more, but I had trouble remembering which movies, if you’ve got some more, let me know.

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