Top 10 Reasons Why Rotten Tomatoes Sucks

The Top Ten
1 The ratings are biased

When a documentary on how terrible trump is gets a good score by the critics and a bad score by audiences (because crapping on trump is original I guess) and a movie comparing trump to Lincoln somehow gets a zero percent by critics and over eighty percent by the audience I'm pretty sure there's a bias here. Also phantom menace was literally adored by critics until fans called them out on that bull crap and pointed out how terrible the story and characters were, then all of the sudden critics realized how crappy the movie really was when they weren't bedazzled by pretty colors.

In may cases, the seem compelled to compare a new movie to some old movie that young people have never even seen or heard of. For instance, I'm 69 years old, and have always like "Legends of the Fall".with Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, etc. However, many critics will compare it to the 50s movie "Giant" with Rock Hudson and James Dean. Why? The only commonality is both take place under "Big Sky" country. One's a love story about 3 brothers loving the same woman during the settling of Montana, the other is in an oil field story. it's such a stretch. The 2 movies have nothing in common storywise. And, I'll take the acting in Legends of the Fall. It just seems like critics like to show off their reading and past movie watching.

Although Rotten Tomatoes only collects criticism, I think the critics are HYPOCRITES. Yes, only a horde of hypocrites who love children's movies without much depth, but only selected films as the ascheities that the MCU does. I really hate those partial hypocrites with their premeditated criticism, and also the people with no mind of their own, who pay attention to those rotten critics like their tomatoes. I do not know why they love those simple movies full of CGI, but when the CGI is used by other movies that are not Disney-Marvel, these idiots are like rabid dogs. They do not analyze stories from other movies, they get carried away by children's jokes, pathetic characters, little lights of science fiction, the same story as in Marvel. I clarify, I AM NOT FAN OF DC, NEITHER OF THE HOUSE WITHOUT IDEAS "MARVEL", but I hate these partial idiots with their stupid and crazy hypocritical qualifications, hopefully lose prestige and get a job as janitors, because as ...more

, can liberals ever do anything in unbiased, fair way? I don't want to live in their world of propaganda, slanted stories, and the "My way or the Highway" attitude, being either coddled or enraged by other people's comments. They think they and their thoughts are correct and everyone and everything else is not only wrong and needs to be removed from their proximity, but must be eliminated from the face of the earth. It's become a disease that far surpasses narcissism and self-centeredness. I'm done, wiping the dust from my feet!

2 They give good movies bad scores

They hate every movie I like...I'll watch whatever the strawberry fudge I want! Screw you rotton tomatoes for giving, Suicide squad, and Yugioh bad reviews and Twilight 46% and Never say Never a 64% (we all know that thing deserved a -14) twilight was the biggest pile of crap I ever saw!

They rated Maze Runner Three a 42%? That's so unheard of! It had a good no-nonsense plot, and made people cry TWICE. The characters we used to hate in the past movies have officially reformed themselves and have gotten our respect. That is something. Not a lot of writers know how to pull a good redemption arc.

Critics don't know how to enjoy a fantastic movie.

So I guess The Godfather, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Lord of the Rings, Terminator 2, The Lion King, Toy Story,... are all bad movies because they got a great score.

They removed the certified fresh form mother and they gave South Park season 21 ninjago kingsman etc bad reviews I mean what man there high on marijuana

3 Audiences rate movies better than critics

I agree...the audience ratings are much better. I often wonder where these critics come from or why people would even trust their judgement. Who says their perspectives are "professional" vs a regular audience. I have seen movies the critics rated 100% that are very poorly made and shallow. Everyone is going to be biased in how they rate a movie. It's best to view a movie and decide for yourself.

There is currently an 8%... for the movie Norm of the North on Rotten Tomatoes. What the heck happened to the initial 0%? Did some critic with bad tastes in movies like the art critic from The Googly Artiste in SpongeBob SquarePants actually give praise to such a poor excuse for a CGI-animated film that can't even hold a candle to Chicken Little!

I ignore the critics' scores, because they are pretentious blather. Unless it's Toy Story, then they just give it 100% fresh, because it gives them a woody, I guess.

The audience knows whether they had fun in the movie, and whether it was any good. The critics up in their NY apartments should come down to earth once in a while.

No, no the audience does not rate better than the professional critics. This is because some of the users on rotten tomatoes are biased themselves. If you want audience scores go to imdb.

4 They give good scores to bad movies

If a movie is PC, it generally gets high marks. If it is not PC, it get low marks. Some of the critical reviews are a joke. They aren't judging the acting/story line/plot. If a movie is Pro-US, or conservative, or God forbid, religious in any way, it gets slammed.

Get Out was a terrible movie and they praised it just for being politically correct... Also, it is far from being a horror and they kept calling it "horror." Idiots...

They have bad reviews to home alone, Carrie white, miracles from heaven and dogs pourpuse and other movies I like.
Rotten tomatoes IMDB and metacriic have really dumb critics who are drunk and your opinions matters more. And please make a list why metacritc and IMDB suck please I would love that

They Gave Justin Bieber Never Say Never A 64%, That Is Like One Of The Worst Movies Ever, Why Did They Give It A 64%?

5 Your own opinion matters more

It should always be in your best interest to ingore movie and T.V. show reviews from the internet or other people before you could even get a chance to see and judge it for yourself. The negetive things people might say may ruin the experience and you'll enjoy it less because your opinion would be based off someone else's thoughts rather than your own. Besides, it really shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks about something. If you like it, you do and if you don't then you don't.

This is one of the biggest reasons. Everyone has their own taste and opinions of what's good and what's bad. And everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

You shouldn't ALWAYS take other people's opinions to heart; sometimes they can differ heavily from yours.

Never use anyone else as a base to judge a movie. It's your own opinion that matters.

6 Bad scores hurt the image of good movies

Depending on what you defy as a 'good movie'.

7 The audience reviews can be very mean

Listen Even If Visitors Of The TopTens Kinda Dislike The Film I Mentioned Doesn't Mean You Have To Be Mean To People Who Do Like It By Disliking A Simple Comment It's Called RESPECTING OPINIONS
The Person Who Did That Review Was Being An Arrogant Bully Who Thinks People Should Like What He Likes
You Have The Right To Like Whatever Film You Want
Thumbing That Comment Down Probably Hurt The Feelings Of The Person Who Typed It
Please Respect My Opinion And Don't Hate Me

The Audience reviews? And you were just saying that audiences review things better than critics. Contradictory statement.

One Reviewer Called People Who Like The Secret Life Of Pets Ignorant For No Reason
Now That Was Very Mean Of Him

Clearly you have never heard of imdb

8 They gave Twilight a 49% when it should have got a 0%

Whether or not you liked it doesn't mean it should have gotten a zero, it was a decent movie that several million people loved. I didn't like it either but I would base it on the overall, not my personal opinion, but that just goes to show how unbiased I am! I agreed with you until I saw this one!

To be fair, the original wasn't that bad guys. Certainly better than the sequels, and half of the imitators it spawned at the least.

It's still low. I hate Twilight so much! I respect your opinion, but I despise the Twilight franchise! I'd rather watch Titanic.

Jesus christ, do you people reaize that we aren't in 2010 anymore? Try to watch more movies before making stupid lists like this one

9 They gave Justin Bieber: Never Say Never a good review

That Movie Got 64%? It Should Have Gotten 0%, IMDb Gave It A 1.6/10, Which It Deserves That, How Did This Abomination Get A Fresh Score?!, This Is One Of The Worst Movies Ever, Whoever Was At Rotten Tomatoes, Probably Some Retarded Beliebers Who Hacked On Rotten Tomatoes,

What's wrong with that, there are more people that likes justin bieber more than there those useless haters

Just because it's a movie about Justin Bieber. I get it!

It's a waste of cash for a documentary but there are worse

10 The Last Jedi Backlash

I am not a fan of Star Wars at all so this shouldn't imply to me.

Worst (by far) Star Wars Movie!

The Contenders
11 The "Tomatometer" method is terrible

The tomatometer method is terrible because the tomatometer score says nothing about the average score other than how many rated it over or under 6/10 (7.5/10 in the case of "certified fresh" rating, but it keeps that rating until it drops under 75%). What on earth is the point of obscuring the actual average score? I don't get it.

The method is that critics with higher importance have more influence on the score than any other people on the site. So if one top critic doesn't like it, the score will drop by quite a bit. That's why it's a bad rating system

Its basically the ratio of "Fresh" ratings out of every ratings so if 3 critics give a movie 55% or 59% and 1 guy gives it 80% then the movie would end up getting 25% even though the average score is above 5/10 or 6/10.ti

It only takes a critic giving a movie 60% or above to count as a "fresh," which makes not sense. Who wants to see a movie with a D- score?

12 The consensuses don't always represent accurate opinions
13 Rotten Tomatoes is a dumb name for a critique website

This site seems to consist of children who have nothing better to do in life than complain. Sorry, but it's kind true. (I'm not saying everyone here is a child, but all you do is complain).

Not a good reason, but yeah, this bit is true.

Yeah, this website is rotten.

The names sucks lol

14 People spam the ratings

No only critics

15 They gave Cuties an 87% when it should have got a 0%
16 The critics make fun of you
17 They have the useless audience score
18 They gave Home Alone a bad review

Yes, home alone deserves a better score.

19 Approving publications for stupid reasons
20 They gave Sharknado an 82%

To be honest, Sharknado was a movie that was very self-aware of itself. The film creators knew what they were making and decided to explore every cliche a B- Movie would do and have it very clear how stupid and illogical the film is. As a result, I think the critics knew what Sharknado was up to, which could be a reason why its an 82%.

Were they thinking right when they did this?

It got a higher score than forrest gump!

This is the worst horror film of all time.

21 They give animated movies higher scores than live action even if they don't deserve it
22 The critics are stupid
23 They gave Suicide Squad a 26%

It deserves that rating since the movie was a mess. You guys are butt hurt fanboys.

Looking back, this movie wasn't that good. It was pretty mediocre.

This movie is overrated garbage

That movie sucked anyways

24 They gave Frozen a 89%

I hate the movie because there is no reason for Hans to betray Anna, also no reason for Elsa to leave castle. The films is like this in order to set up the Frozen environment

Cause it's a good movie that people just hate because it's popular.

Frozen is a good movie people ;-; you people just don't understand.

So? I love Frozen. I know that haters are gonna come after me. - AnimalsLover

25 They gave The Emoji Movie a 6% instead of 0%

You guys have a bad taste in the emoji movie

If you get me to hating that film, I'll never agree

P.S. I like norm of the north and the emoji movie, NOW DON'T JUDGE ME

Oh no!, a 6% was too nice for that abomination that should be banned? , oh boo hoo

It was actually accurate, Norm of the North was way worse than this crap

Saw this movie 6 days ago in theaters and it was terrible

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