Rotten Tomatoes under fire for paid reviews

[humminbird]

lmao so let me guess
we're in here naming movies that we personally hated instead of reading the article
oh and warner bros and Comcast are the majority shareholders of Rotten Tomatoes so I don't want to hear it

but to join in on the fun some of these Oscar movies have always been funny style to me

 

[humminbird]

Cmon now

I almost never read white reviews for black movies
if i did i would've missed out on Boomerang which is one of my favorite movies

 

[O.Red]

Cmon now

Context.

Think about it. How many black people frequent Rotten Tomatoes? The people that love a movie like Dead Presidents are not a part of the online movie reviews/ discourse demographic

 

[Chris Cool]

Metacritic >>>

 

[MajesticLion]

 

[Laidbackman]

To me, their ratings were off even before they were getting paid off . Now I know I ain't going to see no "Barbie".

 

[FlyRy]

Polite Society came to mind from this year

 

[obarth]

You really think a big studio would be named in something like this? Too many pockets getting greased for that to ever happen.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

You really think a big studio would be named in something like this? Too many pockets getting greased for that to ever happen.

Rolling Stone put RCA Records on blast a few years ago for manipulating streams, so don't think that some outlets won't expose it.

 

[obarth]

Rolling Stone put RCA Records on blast a few years ago for manipulating streams, so don't think that some outlets won't expose it.

Rolling Stone has just as much power in the industry as RCA. The major film studios can fukk up a lot of these publications

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Rolling Stone has just as much power in the industry as RCA. The major film studios can fukk up a lot of these publications

And a lot of them are willing to take that chance. Don’t think that some don‘t as major people get put on blast all the time. Even Disney’s shady practices have been called out over the years.

 

[Ribbs]

BEEN trying to tell y'all to stop using them as a metric of criticism.

You've seen how movies with women or black people in them get swarmed by trolls with bad reviews to manipulate scores, you think they did that shyt for free

 

[Rekkapryde]

at the very least, it was obvious critics were kissing ass in order to get premier tickets.

that's all this shyt is sadly. Access and money will make people compromise.

people also need to realize that RT is an aggregate website just tallying the reviews of all others. They also need to stop counting reviews of people with early access and shyt for one as those people don't want to lose their privilege by shytting on the films they get early screening for.