Enshittification comes to movie reviews: When Fandango (which sells movie tickets) bought Rotten Tomatoes in 2016, the review site started rating more movies highly www.statsignificant.com/p/is-rotten-...
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The definitive proof is Road House. The 1989 version had a 44/67 rating, and the 2024 version has a 59/52. The new one had higher (15%) Tomatometer from "critics"? Patrick Swayze tosses this out the door.
aug 24, 2025, 4:24 pm • 1 0 • view
no because the standards are crapola..hyped, increasingly dystopian and violent, creepy sex. nothing of substance like everything generic and fake.
aug 24, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Article: "Can Hollywood's stamp of artistic excellence still be trusted?" Narrator: "It can't."
aug 26, 2025, 5:00 pm • 1 0 • view
By my own subjective observation I find movies have, if anything, gotten worse in artistic quality.
aug 24, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Interesting but rotten tomatoes was never reliable at all
aug 24, 2025, 3:44 pm • 1 0 • view
So I'm not just getting more curmudgeonly in my old age...at least about movie expectations.
aug 24, 2025, 3:36 pm • 2 0 • view
What is the alternative? Does anyone know?
aug 24, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
This article would imply that it's reasonable to continue using Rotten Tomatoes, just look at the Audience Score and ignore everything else. (At least until Fandango starts launching bots to write positive Audience reviews.)
aug 25, 2025, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Also see this comment, with advice. www.statsignificant.com/p/is-rotten-...
aug 25, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view