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user-inactivated  ·  2558 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Rotten Tomatoes: is the semi-fresh aggregation site really destroying cinema?

I was forced this weekend to watch a piece of shit named Independence Day: Resurgence This movie made me angry. If I was told to describe this piece of shit in a sentence I'd call it 'ALL THE FUCKING MOVIE TROPES AND NO SCIENCE AT ALL.'

This movie got 31% on Rotten Tomatoes. I think that is too damn high. It may look pretty, but for the rumored budget of $165 Million? It better damn well be a pretty movie. For comparison, the MOM mission, India's first Mars orbiter, cost 1/2 what this dog cost. $200 million a year, if you want to be more practical, is the estimated cost of expanding Medicare to every kid in Kentucky living in poverty.

Making this shitpost back on target, the people who are willing to take the time to rate something are more likely than not the people who don't like the product. Negative emotions are stronger on aggregate. I usually assume that the product is not as bad as it is rated, but in this case I was wrong. then again this movie is aimed at 15 year olds with disposable income, and even at that it looks like it only make $350 million at the box office.

Want your fucking movie to be rated higher? Make a better fucking product.

Cinema Sins went too easy on this damn cancer.





kleinbl00  ·  2558 days ago  ·  link  ·  

ALL movies are aimed at 15-year-olds with disposable income.

All of them. 15-25. That's the bracket. That's the sum total of the movie audience.

15-25 year old Americans, Chinese kids, and Germans. Not or. And. So it better be universal enough that someone in Xiamen gets the same thing out of it as a kid in Chillicothe.

Bonus points if you can get him to drag a girl along with.