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> leading to grousing that a rotten score next to the purchase button was the same as posting this message: You are an idiot if you pay to see this movie. > Ke
by CM30 9y ago
> leading to grousing that a rotten score next to the purchase button was the same as posting this message: You are an idiot if you pay to see this movie.
> Kersplat: Paramount’s “Baywatch” bombed after arriving to a Tomatometer score of 19, the percentage of reviews the movie received that the site considered positive (36 out of 191). Doug Creutz, a media analyst at Cowen and Company, wrote of the film in a research note, “Our high expectations appear to have been crushed by a 19 Rotten Tomatoes score.”
Well yes. If your film is terrible, the reviews on sites like Rotten Tomatoes and the overall scores generated from them will reflect that. And if that's the case, people won't watch the movie.
The system works. You put out a terrible film, it got rightly bashed to pieces and people decided it wasn't worth watching as a result. That's all it comes down to; if you want to make money here, you should ideally release a decent product.
- empath75 9y agoYeah this is blaming the weatherman for the storm.
- Jugurtha 9y agoThis is more like the storm blaming the weatherman for the storm. They're blaming people for noticing they're making shitty movies.
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- Animats 9y ago"Baywatch" is a notable achievement. They managed to make an R-rated beach movie which is neither sexy nor funny. That's hard to do.
- winslow 9y agoBaywatch had a ton of potential to bring back nostalgia of the 90's and yet they went with some sort of shitty terrorist/mystery/villain story plot completely shitting all over what the baywatch tv show was all about. Hollywood just wants to be able to make something quick with low quality and a few big names and print money. They are just crying because people don't want to see their shitty movies.
- sametmax 9y agoIf only... It still works more often that it should. A huge number of productions of bad acting, terrible writing and copy/pasta all over the place. But they still score good. I've yet to understand how something like transformers have so good ratings. Even as action movies they are terrible. As long as customers still vote with their money for piles of garbages, they will release more garbage.
- yahna 9y agoI was really hoping it would turn out as good as 21 jump street. Didn't bother to see it after the reviews. Will maybe watch it on streaming someday.
- eridius 9y agoI think there's some merit to complaints about rotten tomatoes. The problem with reducing a movie to a single score is different people like different things. Yeah, a score of 19 is pretty awful, so the Baywatch movie is probably bad, but some people liked it. When the whole movie is reduced to a single score, you lose the ability to figure out what audiences like a movie vs what don't, and so someone who might have actually enjoyed the movie is turned off because of all the people who don't like it. That said, Rotten Tomatoes does provide snippets of reviews, which mitigates this issue a bit. You can skim the snippets and see why various critics liked or didn't like the movie. But I'd wager that most people don't do that, and even for the ones that do it only helps a little.
- humanrebar 9y agoI already account for that a bit. Family movies get higher scores, gross-out comedies get lower scores. A 74% on a fantasy horror film may mean it's pretty good. Of course, the risk is high for buying movie tickets. The prices are too high these days for "Meh. Why not see this one?" or even, "Let's go to the movies and pick out something there." So the studios would have a more forgiving audience if they figured out how to lower the risk that someone feels they wasted their money.
- jtreminio 9y agoHave you looked into movie pass? We've gone 6 times in the past 3 weeks, saw 2 boring movies, 4 good ones, but only paid the single monthly cost.
- humanrebar 9y agoMost of the price these days involved babysitting, so no. If I had a different lifestyle, I'd be very interested.
- 0x0 9y agoGood point haha. It's basically "The problem with reducing a movie to a single price of admission is different people like different things."