Re: Rotten Tomatoes suspends Comments after Dark Knight profanity, thr
Lately I've been wishing that sites like rottentomatoes didn't even exist. They take away from people using their own brains and making up their own minds, which I don't think is healthy. They also take away some of the magic from moviegoing. You see an RT score - even a high one - and you can't help but think that the movie is somehow flawed before you even see it. If the Godfather was released today, the masses of critics would probably be nitpicking it, and you'd be thinking of those nitpicks instead of just appreciating it for the classic it has since become.
Eh, not much different than coming here and reading/posting. in the last year and a half to 2 years, I've read of posts that said "I enjoyed x when I watched it, it wasn't until I read posts here that I discovered I was supposed to hate it"
If not for sites like Rotten Tomatoes, you'd get what, one review in your local paper? I'd say, if you're the type of person who is going to make up their minds wether to see a movie or not, you'd want to see multiple reviews, rather than a single review.
Me, if a movie looks interesting to me, I'm going to watch it, wether it's panned mercilessly or not.
Though, I almost never go to the movies, since 2001, I think I've been to the Harry Potter movies, Dawn of the Dead, Stepford Wives and ST09. Generally, I would much rather wait until it comes out on disk and rent it off Comcast On Demand for $4.99, and I can burn myself a DVD-R of it, if I deem it worth keeping. Although Special Features sound attractive when I look at a DVD at the Store, I rarely watch much of them, so, why spend $20 watching it at the Theater, and another $20 buying the DVD, when I can watch it in the comfort of my own home, with the refrigerator and snack cabinet available and can burn a DVD of it for $4.99 rental fee plus less than 50 cents for the blank disk.
As to the people making threats against the reviewers, <SIGH> idiots who have no concept of priorities
If he honestly didn't like it though, that's cool. You've got to be a brave motherfucker to say you don't like one of THE sacred cows of 2012.