Star Trek Rotten Tomatoes Rating

[Starbreaker]

He did like Bedtime Stories though! Bedtime Stories for movie of the year. He and Brett Favre need to go hang out and be douches together.

 

[Basil]

Let me get this straight: some film, scratch that, cultural critic decides that Star Trek is reflective of a cancer on society, an aesthetic disease that reduces audiences to immature adolescents. He presents exhibits A and B, Wolverine and Star Trek. He doesn't spend much time on either, except to lambast them for failing to meet his intellectual threshold.

Someone should send him a memo that spectacle-as-entertainment is neither new nor noteworthy. Enclosed with this memo, someone should send him a copy of Top Gun and the top grossing action film from every subsequent summer.

This critic shows a profound disrespect for the audiences he purports to esteem. He doesn't trust audiences to discern among different types of entertainment. If people want to watch visceral, popcorn cinema, this preference doesn't imply, as he does, that they are teenagers. Instead, they might simply enjoy some escapist fantasy to go along with their Herzogand and Kieslowsk.

This critic implies that there is no place in our cultural pantheon for such film, except for immature mouth breathers. Perhaps he should trust audiences to make informed choices and judge movies by their own merits and not by whether they measure up to his intellectual evangelism.

Oh, please, that he didn't like it is just as valid an opinion as if he did, and his reasoning is no worse than people wanting to believe a popcorn teenybopper movie is superior because it is more "fun" than something ponderous and artsy. Reviewing the reviewer because his opinion wasn't as fawning about the project as the others so far is silly.

 

[KiraDax]

I could take this guy more seriously if it weren't for the films he DOES approve of.

It's kinda like someone lauding 'Spock's Brain' and jeering 'City On The Edge Of Forever'.

You just have to blink. and blink some more.

 

[Aragorn]

So this critic's job is to hate stuff that everyone else likes? He must be a frequent message board poster.

 

[GilmourD]

They KNEW this guy was going to give it a bad review... and he did.

Who knew it ?

Everyone at Rotten Tomatoes was talking about it. He just posts bad reviews simply for the heck of it, it looks like. He doesn't like Science Fiction, so I don't even understand why he bothered to review it.

He likes: Confessions of a Shopaholic, The Signal, Transporter 3, Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married and The Nanny Diaries... and War. Basically anything that's critically panned he goes and writes a glowing review. He's opposite man.

Is there any way we could petition that he be removed from being able to submit reviews to RT?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Hey, it finally got a negative review!

There will be more of those, so let's not go after everyone who writes one.

I didn't read the review in question - I'm not going to try to keep up at this point - but I'm willing to assume that it's as well-considered and fair-minded as the positive ones.

 

[Michael Chris]

Another positive!

 

[urbandk]

No, I will excoriate everyone who disagrees with me!

 

[Aragorn]

Is there any way we could petition that he be removed from being able to submit reviews to RT?

He's an actual published, paid critic.

If Rotten Tomatoes is willing to use a negative "review" about Mission: Impossible III months in advance of the release date from some guy who never saw the movie, couldn't actually say anything about the movie (other than what was in the trailer), and just wrote it to bash Tom Cruise, then this legitimate guy isn't going anywhere.

 

[Michael Chris]

Certified Fresh.

 

[urbandk]

Certified Fresh.

 

[Squiggy]

It's 98%

The sky is falling

WORST. MOVIE. EVER.

 

[Michael Chris]

Up to 50 reviews, one negative.

 

[Star Treks]

Like I said before, anything over 80% - especially for a franchise Sci-Fi film - would be awesome. It's going to reach that goal, and more. A few more negative reviews will come in, but at this point 49 out of 50 mathematically suggests a strong reception even after dozens more reviews are added.

Also, it's noteworthy that it's still getting 7 out of 7 from top critics.

All this, in the end, doesn't matter, though. The only things that matter:

1. Do I (or you... the individual) like it?
2. Does it do well enough to warrant a sequel or further Trek productions of any sort?

 

[GilmourD]

Hey, it finally got a negative review!

There will be more of those, so let's not go after everyone who writes one.

I didn't read the review in question - I'm not going to try to keep up at this point - but I'm willing to assume that it's as well-considered and fair-minded as the positive ones.

It's not that it was a negative review. It's that it was a review written to be negative without actually considering the subject. The verdict was deliberated prior to the trial.

 

[GilmourD]

He's an actual published, paid critic.

Wow... I wish I could get paid to be a jerk, too. I'm pretty good at being a jerk. I just do it for free, now.

 

[Aragorn]

Well, if nothing else, that eternally grumpy critic will now have the unconditional haters proclaiming Mission to Mars and Starship Troopers as visionary standard-setters.

 

[SalvorHardin]

All this, in the end, doesn't matter, though. The only things that matter:

1. Do I (or you... the individual) like it?
2. Does it do well enough to warrant a sequel or further Trek productions of any sort?

True.

Though it is still very nice to see all this positivity surrounding something Trek.
We've spent far too many years moaning over failures and wrong choices.

 

[Bishbot]

Hey, it finally got a negative review!

There will be more of those, so let's not go after everyone who writes one.

I didn't read the review in question - I'm not going to try to keep up at this point - but I'm willing to assume that it's as well-considered and fair-minded as the positive ones.

Good point well made.

Although I will point out that the guy also didn't like:

The Wrestler
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

Entitled to his opinion, but I'm not convinced his means much...

Edited to acknowledge that people have said some of those. But seriously, you have to question whether he actually likes movies, or just pretends to for a cheque.

 

[Smiley]

Since a sequel is already announced, the RT score, and by extension the box office take, will only affect the budget for that sequel and perhaps the DVD treatment of Trek XI.