Yyyyyyep. Two movies, and RT becomes a gigantic DC-crushing machine.
Those high ratings for Nolan's Batman movies? The 96% for Arrow, and 98% for Flash, on television? All to lure you into a false sense of security!
Kidding aside, what I've read elsewhere suggests that the petition's author doesn't really expect RT to shut down or be shut down, he just wants people to think... about... something? How jaded and mean-spirited critics are, I guess.
We go through phases of this. People saying we can't turn off our brains and watch a popcorn movie anymore, people saying critics see so many movies they've forgotten how to enjoy them. I will even grant some small measure of sympathy for those ideas, on occasion; some critics do seem to take an almost sadistic glee in eviscerating a movie for reasons that may seem both personal and arbitrary, and some do give one an inkling that perhaps they've been at their job too long.
But there are way too many sacred cows out there already, too many cultural land mines. And so-called "popcorn movies" are one thing, but you shouldn't be making that excuse when you need millions of people to show up to your movie at $10 a pop in order to break even. I can turn off my brain for a $3 second-run theater or something I'm watching in a half-daze on Netflix; for full price I want, at the minimum, a script that doesn't break its own logic and actors who aren't "phoning it in".
The critics are just doing their jobs. And if 88 (and counting) didn't like Suicide Squad, well... A vendetta on the part of Rotten Tomatoes does not seem, to put it kindly, to be the more likely scenario.
Those high ratings for Nolan's Batman movies? The 96% for Arrow, and 98% for Flash, on television? All to lure you into a false sense of security!
Kidding aside, what I've read elsewhere suggests that the petition's author doesn't really expect RT to shut down or be shut down, he just wants people to think... about... something? How jaded and mean-spirited critics are, I guess.
We go through phases of this. People saying we can't turn off our brains and watch a popcorn movie anymore, people saying critics see so many movies they've forgotten how to enjoy them. I will even grant some small measure of sympathy for those ideas, on occasion; some critics do seem to take an almost sadistic glee in eviscerating a movie for reasons that may seem both personal and arbitrary, and some do give one an inkling that perhaps they've been at their job too long.
But there are way too many sacred cows out there already, too many cultural land mines. And so-called "popcorn movies" are one thing, but you shouldn't be making that excuse when you need millions of people to show up to your movie at $10 a pop in order to break even. I can turn off my brain for a $3 second-run theater or something I'm watching in a half-daze on Netflix; for full price I want, at the minimum, a script that doesn't break its own logic and actors who aren't "phoning it in".
The critics are just doing their jobs. And if 88 (and counting) didn't like Suicide Squad, well... A vendetta on the part of Rotten Tomatoes does not seem, to put it kindly, to be the more likely scenario.
