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Yeah I watched it last night, thought it was a great film, but have not seen any hype for it to live up to.

Really not of fan of Hugh Grant, but he was brilliant in this role tbf.

Thought it was bang average.

Totally agree.

Well..
unlike the Ferret  I'll keep  my powder dry until I've actually seen it ...know what I mean.
Merry Christmas everyone and god bless you all ..including the ferret

Ferret.
if you're gonna  give it large ...at least make an effort you minge

 

What goes on at Rotten Tomatoes is hilarious.

Let's start with the critics' scores.

The big studios know how to play the system, so anyone who gets on the 'All critics' list is showered with corporate largesse and gains 'access' to the film-makers and stars (and goodie bags, free tickets etc). Disney is particularly adept at this tactic, so any Disney/Pixar/Marvel/Lucasfilm product will always get insanely high 'All Critics' ratings. Someone at Disney bragged that they can buy a positive review for fifty bucks.

The 'Top Critics' are less easily bought, but are all insanely liberal, which again favours Disney whose product is uniformly and insanely woke.

As far as the audience scores are concerned, beware the 'verified ratings'. The studios, again especially Disney, are adept at influencing this score. I suspect they insist all their employees become verified users and go on the site to give positive reviews. The 'All audience' Popcornometer thing is about the only index I would take seriously.

For example - let's take the insanely woke The Marvels from which audiences stayed away in their droves.

The all critics score is 62%, reflecting the bought and paid for nature of the index. Top critics, less inclined to risk their reputations shilling for Disney, panned it and gave it it only 45%. Given that the literally nobody went to see this mess and it lost the studio upwards of $200m one can only assume they gave it extra marks for being an utter girl-boss fest.

Now, audiences do like super-hero films, especially Marvel movies, so scores are higher. The 'Verified Audience' score is a belief-defying 81%, while the 'All Audience' score, which of course includes the 'Verified' score is 64%. A bit more realistic, but still at odds with the box office.

You also have to bear in mind the fanboy wars that see Marvel fans bigging up their own team while down-voting DC's stuff and vice versa. There are far more Marvel fan-boys than DC, which is one of the reasons Marvel films come out better - the other being that most DC films have been shit. 

The studios are less able to influence the audience scores for TV shows, which is probably why some Disney/Marvels offerings there are rated pretty close to zero. The funniest is Star Wars: The Acolyte - a thumping 78% from 'All critics' who loved the fanatical feminist anti-male stuff, and 18% from the audience who I presume were mostly men (as you'd expect for a fucking Stars Wars show). Amazon's Rings of Power gets some pretty bizarre scores, too. The most expensive TV show ever made - loved by the critics, hated by the audiences (where the fuck is Celeborn, why is Celebrimbor gay and why is Galadriel a mighty warrior who snogs her also gay son-in-law, Elrond AND Sauron?) and so little watched that Season Three (out of a promised five) still hasn't been green-lit.

Plus, at the behest of the studios, RT routinely remove hundreds of negative audience reviews on the pretext of racism/sexism/transphobia and other spurious isms and phobias.

RTs problem is its own success. It's become too important for the studios to ignore and they have been incapable of preventing themselves corrupting it. I would say RT is pretty good for old stuff, say further back than 7 years ago but for current and recent stuff I just go there for the laughs.

IMDB is nearly as bad as RT and Metacritic is the least worst.

RT and IMDB are both owned by studios now, by the way, so there's that to consider.

Don't watch Heart Condition then, you'll ruin your run

I suppose anyone who goes on Rotten Tomatoes ratings. Really are Mad.?