Data: rottentomatoes.com and boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW as of 12/20/22. Movies with fewer than 50 ratings in either category not shown. Data compiled and plotted using R tidyverse and ggplot2.

Good data, but I hate that the top four are inverted.

Cool! Can someone smarter than me tell me how much those correlate based on the chart?

It looks like very few mistakes are made when choosing a high ranked movie on Rotten Tomatoes as big ranked movies there mean big box office earnings. Also, only a few low ranked movies on RTomatoes had a big box office earning.

I wanna know what those outlier big blue dots are. Big differences between Audience score and Tomato score.

I wonder if the box office earnings are adjusted for inflation.

A movie that sold a million tickets in 1982, and a movie that sold a million tickets in 2020 each sold a million tickets, but the 2020 movie's box office earnings will be significantly larger.

The two giant ones in the upper right quadrant are Avatar and Avengers: Endgame, respectively, if that's what you mean. I was trying to make it interactive at one point so you could hover over a dot for movie title, but I'm just a hobbyist and I haven't figured out how to do it yet. I'd be happy to post the full csv at some point though so people can look up individual titles.

The data set I used in this case is not adjusted, if it were the list would be quite different (Gone with the Wind and A New Hope would still be at the top by a lot), so that would be an interesting one to run through at some point.

Here's the full csv from the last run if anyone's interested, the script and plot I used are also on GitHub

https://github.com/declanrjb/rotten-tomatoes/blob/main/ratings_all.csv

He said what are the outliers with a big difference between audience and tomato score. It seems like you just focused on “big blue dots” and posted a link to a list. I’d also like to know, thanks

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Oh, gotcha. This is the equivalent of back of the napkin math I did in five minutes just now, so it might not be complete, but looks like these are the top 15 with the highest absolute value differences between Audience Score and Tomato Meter. Hope that helps

https://github.com/declanrjb/rotten-tomatoes/blob/main/highest_differences.png

Ran it through a Perl script and these are the top ten differences:

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Is this an interactive model that can be published?

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The very highest grossing movies.