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Dottsterisk t1_jczicag wrote

Reply to comment by hasanahmad in Is it time to end RottenTomatoes? by hasanahmad

The reaction you’re getting is in response to your suggestion that Rotten Tomatoes needs to be ended, not that it’s a garbage metric.

I’m content just to ignore it.

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hasanahmad OP t1_jczikhn wrote

it needs to be ended as the barometer because outside of this sub and other movie forum, outside the celebrity and movie forum bubble, the score is the barometer for people. a yes or no. we movie aficionados apply nuance, they don't. But their $ make or break a movie, ours doesnt

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official_bagel t1_jczos64 wrote

I don't think this really true. There are plenty of films that "scored" poorly on Rotten Tomatoes and went on to gross huge amounts and plenty more that "scored" highly and grossed peanuts.

Even if this was true, Rotten Tomatoes is literally just a review aggregator so your argument would condense down to "should we eliminate movie critics completely?"

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