5/30/2023 0 Comments Rotten tomatoes shut inSo how do movies achieve certified fresh status? What is the magic bullet that almost uniformly seems to align critics and the moviegoing public at large? Not to be coy, but this isn't something you can quantify. That Rotten Tomatoes succinctly cuts to the heart of that discussion (for most people) is where its real power seems to lie. We might not have a lot of control over how our tax monies are spent, but we sure can decide where we're gonna spend our hard earned duckets at the box office. And, to quote the late, great Muhammad Ali, "It ain't bragging if you can back it up." I don't think I've seen a movie that scored highly on Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer that I didn't think was good.Īt the same time, what makes movies good or bad? Aren't we ultimately just discussing subjective opinions? Whatever we are doing, Rotten Tomatoes appears to be documenting it, and in the process creating a catalogue of titles that people can use to find out important information about almost any movie.Īnd what it is that information? Probably the most important thing that we as consumers have. That site has a done a splendid job at aggregating reviews no matter how rotten or fresh they may be. This is in no way a dig on Rotten Tomatoes. How you ask? Lets just say that when I suggest a movie to see and somebody says, "It only got FILL IN THE BLANK percent on Rotten Tomatoes," my response is usually that said person should learn to think for themselves. This so called ' rotten rating' has gotten me in a lot of trouble. The Tomatometer, ever heard of it? That little percent meter that people now use to decide if they should or shouldn't see a movie, all according to its rotten score. Or movies that got extremely, extremely close. And that is what we are celebrating today, movies that got 100% on the Tomatometer at Rotten Tomatoes. But that still makes them nearly perfect in the eyes of the audience. Though a few classics have managed to get there, some have only gotten close. It's a very coveted rating for any movie to get, and very few have been successful. Getting 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer means a lot to people.
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