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The real surprise here is that there is anyone left who thinks that RT scores aren't basically paid marketing for whatever film is in question, and are real org
by fein 9y ago
The real surprise here is that there is anyone left who thinks that RT scores aren't basically paid marketing for whatever film is in question, and are real organic reviews.
Especially with the recent virtue signaling olympics that movie critics have been going through to evaluate movies on anything but their actual quality.
- jasonmp85 9y ago> Especially with the recent virtue signaling olympics that movie critics have been going through to evaluate movies on anything but their actual quality. What the christ does this mean?
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoIs this context, "virtue signaling" usually means "there's more media focused on black/female/queer characters and I'm angry about it."
- emodendroket 9y agoRoughly, that he thinks that movie reviewing has become about signalling allegiance to a political cause, to the exclusion of other considerations. I'm not sure I see the relationship to people being paid off, though.
- dasm 9y agoVirtue signalling seems to a popular term among the alt-right. I would assume that this is a thinly-veiled reference to Black Panther.
- bitwize 9y agoBlack Panther earned its success, as did Wonder Woman. Alt-righters who complain about them are truly lone voices. But there were two major movies in recent memory -- Ghostbusters (2016) and Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi -- that had unusually high RT scores that they may not have gotten if they hadn't been so on message. Doubtless the critics involved were trying to reassure everyone that they weren't one of those people. Had they spoken the truth and said, for example, that Ghostbusters (2016) was ill-paced, obnoxious, and mostly unfunny, the likes of Jezebel would have raked them over the coals and you know it. That's what they did to James Rolfe, for simply saying he would not see the movie.
- dahdum 9y agoIt been popular for 10 years or so, not just with the alt right. I like using it when pointing out soulless corporatism and hypocrisy.
- JBlue42 9y agoYeah, it seems to be another term for disingenuous but much more buzzy and maybe more political? From the Wikipedia page: Examples of behavior described as virtue signalling include changing Facebook profile pictures to support a cause, participation in the Ice Bucket Challenge, offering thoughts and prayers after a tragedy, celebrity speeches during award shows, politicians pandering to constituents on ideological issues -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
- RobLach 9y agoA movie’s quality will always be criticized in he context of the culture it’s viewed in. Objective quality is not the most relevant metric in art.
- delete2 9y agoRT is certainly losing my favor, it's Disney garbage everywhere, the top movies consist of whatever came out in the last 2 years, the algorithm just isn't good.
- MiddleEndian 9y agoTheir algorithm is mostly unchanged as far as I can tell. They take a bunch of critics and aggregate their reviews as positive or negative. Therefore most of their highly recommended movies are, and always have been, predominantly broad-appeal films that are mostly inoffensive.
- srtjstjsj 9y agoRT's increasing popularity has created pressure to make more mass-appeal mediocre movies, as movies are rewarded for being "watchable" and get no bonus points for being "excellent" (and excellence which might turn off segments of the audience if any controversial choices are made en route).
- MiddleEndian 9y agoI'm not entirely convinced this is a result of RT. Studios have been looking for ways to produce broad appeal blockbusters forever.
- fein 9y ago> Objective quality is not the most relevant metric in art. And this is a disturbing trend.
- PhasmaFelis 9y ago