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pulaskiwasright ,

Rotten tomatoes had nothing to do with this. They don’t even employ critics. They aggregate them and the PR firm was directly contacting reviewers.

downpunxx ,
@downpunxx@kbin.social avatar

If you think RT hasn't been in active incentive based collusion with studios and critic for years, you're the type of purposefully ignorant that advertisers make their bread and butter off of. RT was been corrupt since they sold out, and that was a very very very long time ago now.

EdibleFriend , (edited )
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

Didn’t they actively and very publicly suppresse reviews on a few movies because they called it brigading? I think one was girl Ghostbusters?

Hiccup ,

Also, the last jedi. Both are terrible movies. I had the same experience when watching both and thought I must be tripping balls and hallucinating at how bad both films were.

ryathal ,

They have been playing fast and loose with who qualifies as a professional reviewer allowing for increased manipulation.

JackbyDev ,

They’re saying their data is rotten.

TransplantedSconie , (edited )

And another site is enveloped by shitifacation.

Edit: ENshittifacation. Apparently, shitifacation is where an airline loses all of your luggage, lol

funktion ,

RT was shit from the start though.

downpunxx ,
@downpunxx@kbin.social avatar

not from the start, it wasn't no. after they sold out, it became a corrupted willing tool of the studios. i made the move to metacritic 10 years ago.

smort ,
@smort@lemmy.world avatar

Aren’t they based on the same reviews?

What’s to stop a PR firm from paying reviewers on Metacritic for good reviews?

downpunxx ,
@downpunxx@kbin.social avatar

oh they're there too, it's just the formatting, where "professional critics" are on the left side of the page, and users reviews are on the right as opposed to be hidden on an entire different page, it gives a more accurate view, in my personal opinion, or what users think. now, it gets brigades by the incels just like everywhere else, and there's plenty of one review accounts which are seeded by the pr companies, but the site itself, I've never felt is actively accepting and designing their critic roster, review, splash pages, and recommendation processes like Rotten Tomatoes has since it sold out

cmbabul ,

Remember IMDB in the early 00s? It was all you needed from what it set out to be. I recently went back to grab some lists for automation and holy shit it’s a wasteland of bullshit. I can’t imagine getting lost in it for hours learning about movies and deciding what I wanted to watch next if it was what it has become

Someonedifferent ,

I miss the IMDb message boards so much. It was so neat to be able to ask a question about a movie or read a post someone made three years before explaining the ending.

KillAllPoorPeople ,

I really loved IMDb back in the day. While the user ratings weren’t perfect, there used to be a formula you could use to figure out the worthiness of a movie to watch. Now (10 years or so), IMDb user ratings are inundated with conservatives and older generations who tend to rate based on their fragile feelings rather than on how watchable a movie is.

TrenchcoatFullofBats ,

conservatives and older generations who tend to rate based on their fragile feelings

“Woke” doesn’t mean what you think it means, JesusLittleKidLover88, and it certainly doesn’t apply to Crank 2.

AZERTY ,

Don’t forget the anime weirdos voting against incredibly popular shows so their anime can be the best one. Once Breaking Bad was knocked out of the top spots by Attack on Titan and Fullmetal Alchemist weebs I stopped caring about the ratings.

NovaPrime ,
@NovaPrime@lemmy.ml avatar

Tell me you haven’t seen either Attack on Titan or Fullmetal Alchemist without telling me you haven’t seen either fucking masterpiece.

AZERTY ,

Sure AoT is good and FMA might be good (but bored me tbh), but actively voting against other shows makes the fandoms look ass. Ozymandias was the best episode from any show and it shows you’ve never watched Breaking Bad.

NovaPrime ,
@NovaPrime@lemmy.ml avatar

Personal opinion re: “best episode from any show”. Very bold assumptions re: my familiarity with Breaking Bad

AZERTY ,

Says the guy who assumed I’d never seen AoT or FMA, and I can assure you it isnt just my opinion.

NovaPrime ,
@NovaPrime@lemmy.ml avatar

Fair point. I was a jackass and could have made my point more rationally. My offense was with the implied suggestion in the original comment that AoT and/or FMA are only highly rated like that because they’re favored and terfed by “weebs.” It ignores the fact that they are also objectively incredible shows on par with Breaking Bad and many other shows on the list you linked and have just as much of a dedicated following as your favored shows.

Re: the opinion point: linking an article that shows other people sharing your opinion does not in fact make it any less of an opinion. Yes there are technical aspects that can be objectively compared or analyze, but generally speaking, these things are matters of taste an opinion. There is no “objective” best and as such cultural lists and rankings will change.

AZERTY ,

My offense was with the implied suggestion in the original comment that AoT and/or FMA are only highly rated like that because they’re favored and terfed by “weebs.”

My original point in my original comment that there was brigading by weirdos as seen here which make the fandom look ass.

I didn’t put the shows down, but adding to the fact that IMDB ratings can’t be trusted because of brigading and paid reviews as indicated in the OP.

And to your second point it is an opinion, I never said it wasn’t, just adding a few links to show it isn’t an opinion that only I hold.

echoplex21 ,

Letterboxd has been slowly filling that void for me

nevernevermore ,

shitifacation

The term is enshittification, penned by Cory Doctorow

Shitifacation was my last international holiday where the airline lost my luggage

TransplantedSconie ,

Oof. THAT must have royally sucked

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