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comment by johnnyFive
johnnyFive  ·  2580 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Rotten Tomatoes: is the semi-fresh aggregation site really destroying cinema?

I feel like this criticism is basically "Rotten Tomatoes does what Rotten Tomatoes intends to do."

    A range of critics with quite different styles, quite different viewpoints, quite different approaches and quite different prejudices cannot meaningfully be reduced to an average.

That's the whole point. If 73% of critics, all coming from different places, said a movie sucks (as they did with Batman v. Superman), chances are it's not very good. If I only read 1 review, how do I know that person just doesn't like superhero movies? And if that's the case, their review stops being meaningful. But by giving an aggregate, we get much more meaningful information. I don't find his analogy at the end to be compelling at all, and really isn't a good description of what Rotten Tomatoes does.