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Melania drops 67% at US box office as Rotten Tomatoes defends record-breaking audience scores

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  • S supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz

    They added: “Reviews displayed on the Popcornmeter are VERIFIED reviews, meaning that it has been verified that users have bought a ticket to the film through Fandango”.

    Doesn't mean they aren't paid shills.

    Rotted Rotten Tomatoes.

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    ConstableJelly
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    #39

    I'm not convinced there's a conspiracy here. Seems entirely likely that Rotten Tomatoes has no contingency for the release of a movie so blatantly sycophantic and propagandistic that the only people spending money on tickets are those who are already bought into the fantasy.

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    • P prettybunnys

      Sure.

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      downvote_hunter
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      🤣 reeks of "I have a " fill in the blank racist stereotype "friend!"

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      • trickdacy@lemmy.worldT trickdacy@lemmy.world

        I saw that too. They were all a bunch of rich Republicans. The screening was at the Kennedy center so it wouldn't surprise me if basically everyone watching that screening was a government worker (or their friend/family) who probably moved to DC specifically to work for their favorite fascist.

        I also wondered how those people could be real and studying them wouldn't be a bad idea.

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        supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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        #41

        The screening was at the Kennedy center so it wouldn't surprise me if basically everyone watching that screening was a government worker (or their friend/family) who probably moved to DC specifically to work for their favorite fascist.

        Sounds like a bunch of DEI hires to me.

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        • S supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz

          The screening was at the Kennedy center so it wouldn't surprise me if basically everyone watching that screening was a government worker (or their friend/family) who probably moved to DC specifically to work for their favorite fascist.

          Sounds like a bunch of DEI hires to me.

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          trickdacy@lemmy.world
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          #42

          Nazi snowflakes deserve jobs too! /s

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            corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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            #43

            What if she's Krasnov's handler and this tripe is to ensure she looks vapid and uninteresting when the feds remember their mandate?

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            • Eternal192E Eternal192

              Why would anyone go watch a movie about an imported prostitute?

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              axiochus@lemmy.world
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              #44

              Wow, or we could drop the misogyny and just dislike her for being part of a fascist dynasty. No need to berate sex workers, either.

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                whostosay@sh.itjust.works
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                Rotten tomatoes has always been shit, always gonna be shit

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                • S supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz

                  They added: “Reviews displayed on the Popcornmeter are VERIFIED reviews, meaning that it has been verified that users have bought a ticket to the film through Fandango”.

                  Doesn't mean they aren't paid shills.

                  Rotted Rotten Tomatoes.

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                  Gargantuan
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                  #46

                  it makes sesnse though. Anyone paying to see it is probably MAGA anyway, so of course they’re going to rate it highly.

                  i doubt very many non MAGA types have seen it, so there will be very few negative reviews for that reason alone.

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                  • A axiochus@lemmy.world

                    Wow, or we could drop the misogyny and just dislike her for being part of a fascist dynasty. No need to berate sex workers, either.

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                    Janx
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                    #47

                    I didn't detect any judgement. "Why would anyone go watch a movie about an imported wife?" and "Why would anyone go watch a movie about an imported cashier?" both sound about the same as the original sentence to me...

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                    • W whostosay@sh.itjust.works

                      Rotten tomatoes has always been shit, always gonna be shit

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                      savethetuahawk@lemmy.ca
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                      I came to that conclusion after paying money to see Brad pitt in F1 following 97% scores.

                      They took the exact plot of Stallone's Driven, to date the worst movie ever made about racing, or anything else.

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                      • S savethetuahawk@lemmy.ca

                        I came to that conclusion after paying money to see Brad pitt in F1 following 97% scores.

                        They took the exact plot of Stallone's Driven, to date the worst movie ever made about racing, or anything else.

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                        dragontypewyvern@midwest.social
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                        And yet we won't get a How Did This Get Made episode about F1, making it completely worthless

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                        • Y you_are_dust

                          How can you even have a documentary about possibly the most uninteresting person on earth? I'm not sure that I've even heard her speak before. A documentary about my neighbor would be more intriguing.

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                          dragontypewyvern@midwest.social
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                          Conservatives are bootlicking morons.

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                          • C captdust@sh.itjust.works

                            How is IMDb much more reliable? I'd argue that's even easier to manipulate as you don't need to buy a ticket to leave a review. Review bombing (in either direction) is pretty rampant on IMDB.

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                            texasdrunk@lemmy.world
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                            Pretty much anything that reaches a critical mass now gets manipulated. Web 2.0 saw to that.

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                            • S savethetuahawk@lemmy.ca

                              I came to that conclusion after paying money to see Brad pitt in F1 following 97% scores.

                              They took the exact plot of Stallone's Driven, to date the worst movie ever made about racing, or anything else.

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                              cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
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                              #52

                              Hollywood manages to successfully astroturf reviews most films for at lest a couple weeks after release.

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                              • G Gargantuan

                                it makes sesnse though. Anyone paying to see it is probably MAGA anyway, so of course they’re going to rate it highly.

                                i doubt very many non MAGA types have seen it, so there will be very few negative reviews for that reason alone.

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                                cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
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                                Probably the equivalent of publishing companies buying thousands of copies of books so that they are best sellers.

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                                • W whostosay@sh.itjust.works

                                  Rotten tomatoes has always been shit, always gonna be shit

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                                  mlg@lemmy.world
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                                  Its actually wild seeing the critic reviews sitting at 8% with the "verified user" score at 99%.

                                  Usually they pay off both groups lol.

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                                  • S savethetuahawk@lemmy.ca

                                    I came to that conclusion after paying money to see Brad pitt in F1 following 97% scores.

                                    They took the exact plot of Stallone's Driven, to date the worst movie ever made about racing, or anything else.

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                                    yiddishmcsquidish@lemmy.today
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                                    I'm remembering that dime scene now. That movie was really fucking bad.

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                                    • crackhappy@lemmy.worldC crackhappy@lemmy.world

                                      Man, this looks very bad for RT. If they don't course correct on this, they are going to lie any remaining trust or faith.

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                                      yiddishmcsquidish@lemmy.today
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                                      They've been obvious shills for at least a decade. All you have to do is look at any new release. They rarely get below 80/90%. Every single fucking movie can't be the citizen Kane they claim it is.

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                                      • E eatcasserole@lemmy.world

                                        0% chance that's legit.

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                                        yiddishmcsquidish@lemmy.today
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                                        All you gotta do is check out the people leaving positive reviews. They either don't exist anywhere but RT, or are obvious bots/paid shills.

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                                        • E eatcasserole@lemmy.world

                                          0% chance that's legit.

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                                          nihilistic_mystics@lemmy.world
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                                          I actually make perfect sense given recent changes RT made. In order to leave an audience review and be counted towards the score, you need to be a verified viewer. Like, someone who has paid for a ticket through an RT partner like Fandango. The reason for this recent change was to prevent review bombing, like what happens on every movie conservatives hate. It obviously has some major drawbacks, like we can see for this movie's verified audience ratings, as only bootlickers would ever watch this garbage fire propaganda. So we only see their ratings here.

                                          However, we can still see the all-audience ratings by clicking on the score and selecting that option. It's currently sitting at 29%, and that's even after a Republican campaign to boost the score.

                                          So, we have critic scores at 10% (as of this very moment), which makes sense because the movie is trash and only the Republican culture warriors are giving it a thumbs up. Then only ticket purchasing viewers have their score taken into consideration for the "Verified Audience" score, so you only get bootlickers and of course they're all giving it a perfect score.

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