Current Events > The Rise of Skywalker rt user score has stayed at 86% despite being rated lower

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by Metacritic userscores, IMDB user scores, Youtube reviews, Reddit and of course critics.

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ediutg/disney_is_paying_rottentomatoes_to_freeze/


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there's a retweet user score?

ROS is old news. Now we're into string

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MachineJaipur posted...

there's a retweet user score?

rotten tomatoes user score

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oh great conspiracy theories about movie ratings

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Imagine giving a shit about this.

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if disney was paying for favorable reviews why would they not pay for the critic average (the one everyone cares about) and instead focus on the user ones

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Doom_Art posted...

if disney was paying for favorable reviews why would they not pay for the critic average (the one everyone cares about) and instead focus on the user ones

For critics, each review is tied to a real person so they would have to pay off each one.
For a website's listed user score, all they have to do is pay that one website to control which reviews get posted.
Yelp does this all the time for example.

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I indulge in the "Disney is buying user reviews!" conspiracy, only because I think it's fucking hilarious that that's the narrative after "Disney is buying critic reviews!"

I don't actually believe that it's the case, the extent of my enjoyment of that meme is that internet nerds will believe in anything as long as it suits their stupid self-absorbed narrative.

I will say that even with its incredibly choppy pacing, I liked Rise of Skywalker more than TLJ - and I actually like to talk about TLJ critically instead of trashing it completely for Canto Bight and Luke Skywalker. The second half of RoS is still popcorn-munching fluff, but the pacing chills out ever-so-slightly after a point and I found it to be a more entertaining movie after TLJ's slow-ass pacing, redundant story and stale humor. It's not a very good movie - TFA stands as the best movie of the sequel trilogy - but I can respect RoS more than I respect the abysmal pacing of Last Jedi.

First half is extremely ass, and if the whole movie was a shitty rush-job like the first half of the movie, I might have considered it to be worse than TLJ. But the movie balances out the pace to the point that it becomes watchable, and the dumb action hype of the movie is enough to get it through.

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Rotten tomatoes is owned by WB I don't know why anyone would think Disney would pay / WB would accept.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Rotten tomatoes is owned by WB I don't know why anyone would think Disney would pay / WB would accept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt0Xb5r9tg8
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I think RT is just a really shitty website.

I don't know why people give it so much attention when it's consistently had goofy shit going on around movies. Like, okay, TRoS is low on every metric except for Rotten Tomatoes? Who cares? Pay attention to the ones you trust then?

And all of that out of the way, of course users would rate TROS higher than TLJ. The Last Jedi is a hack critics wet dream, while TRoS is a fanservice loving fanboys wet dream. I'm not convinced that normal people would give enough of a shit to take the time to rate a movie on Rotten Tomatoes tbqh.

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This is such a fucking stupid conspiracy theory. Good god imagine being so unable to comprehend the possibility that people enjoyed something you were determined to hate from the outset that you make up asinine theories to justify your biases.

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"Oh no, this one website isn't lowering a rating for a movie that I hate! It must be a conspiracy!"

I find the people that unironically think it's a conspiracy are a bit loony.

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Also, needs to be pointed out that the % with a sample size of 1k+ is going to pretty much remain similar/constant as that sample size increases.

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KillerSlaw posted...

I'm not convinced that normal people would give enough of a shit to take the time to rate a movie on Rotten Tomatoes tbqh.

I tried but they wanted me to make an account so I noped out. Not that I'm surprised, but I don't care enough to make an account.

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Because that percentage is just how many people gave the movie a rating of 7 or above. As long as it's above that, it's not going to change much.

Whereas, other aggregates are the average of each score from 1-10. So it will vary more.

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Lmao what an idiotic conspiracy.
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And now you won't Trust the audience score while inn the past that was the only thing people would trust? Hahahaha.

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InfinityMonster posted...

Because that percentage is just how many people gave the movie a rating of 7 or above. As long as it's above that, it's not going to change much.

Nah. It's fuckin haruspicy. There was a big blow up a few years ago where the same author rated Justice League and some other movie, Avengers 2 I think, both 3/5. RT counted his Justice league review as rotten and his marvel review as fresh.

Reason is if you don't explicitly say rotten / fresh or some other similar metric then someone reads the review and arbitrarily assigns a rating.

This only affects reviews that are mixed in nature.

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