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Because baddox that is what they literally do >Every day, a half-dozen Rotten Tomatoes staffers scour the web to find every review of every movie, collecting f
by ZoeZoeBee 9y ago
Because baddox that is what they literally do
>Every day, a half-dozen Rotten Tomatoes staffers scour the web to find every review of every movie, collecting from major news outlets and well-known critics. They read each review and determine whether it is mostly positive or mostly negative.
>About half of the critics who appear on Rotten Tomatoes — often the more obscure set — submit their reviews, along with the ratings, to the site themselves. As reviews are indexed, Rotten Tomatoes calculates the score.
http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/movies/rotten-tomatoes-freshens-up-1.21669904 http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/movies/rotten-tom...
The notion they cherry picked reviews comes from the more than standard deviation away from Audience and Top Critic Reviews.
As far as your last statement, it does not appear you actually understand how a review is determined to be Fresh or Not for the Tomatometer
- baddox 9y agoYou're conflating two very different concepts: the source of reviews, and the algorithm for calculating the Certified Fresh status. Obviously RottenTomatoes aggregates reviews from the Internet. That is the entire point, but that doesn't match the usual definition of "cherry-picking." To convince me that they cherry-pick reviews to achieve a desired Tomatometer or Certified Fresh result, I would need some evidence. The difference between Tomatometer, audience scores, and top critics is not sufficient evidence of foul play, because it's exactly what I would expect from a fair process.