Rotten Tomatoes is a website "devoted" to reviews, information, and news of movies. The name derives from the historical cliché of throwing tomatoes and other produce at stage performers if a performance was particularly
bad.
It was always fantastic site for movie reviews in its
first 6 years, which always gave a fair
average score their
Tomato-meter shows for all their readers.
The site was bought by IGN in June
2004, that's when it went steadily downhill. The whole site had to be redesign, making it harder to navigate though it. It also brought in a huge slew of ads, making it even more
annoying to navigate.
Still, it was all relatively good. The
Tomato-meter was still the same and every movie had their fair share of "fresh" and "rotten" reviews from all the film critics the RT staff can find all over the
internet. RT is extremely
popular, and they still cared about all their viewers.
.....
This all changed around 2008. That's when it became clear that RT is only in for the business they can get off from certain film "critics" and the hits these "critics" get from RT.
It became clear that Rotten Tomatoes is actually ENDORSING a few trolls, most notably a very consistent one: a hypocritical
racist named Armond
White who makes sure any truly amazing movie nowadays gets chastised by him. All his rotten reviews consist of comparing the movie he's "reviewing" to other movies he likes (really terrible movies at that). He doesn't mind insulting and condemning the director, the producer, the actors, anyone involved in the film, and especially the fans who look forward to the movie. All he wants is hits his site generated from all the anger and hatred you, the reader, can give him by simply going to the NYPress's site.
And RT helps him greatly with that goal.
There's no reason why you should go to RottenTomatoes.com when they are fully aware that they will not remove
scum like Armond
White from the site. They even defend his outrageous tirades. And no matter how many cries they hear from their viewers,
RT will NOT get rid of his reviews, because they'd be losing a lot of traffic otherwise.
Sad isn't it?
Go to Metacritic.com for something more fair. At least they have a rating system that doesn't give trolls much of an upperhand, and they are decent enough to not let morons like Mr. White to ruin the movie with his senseless ilk. There's no reason why Rotten Tomatoes should be around anymore if they are purposely letting trolls ruin
real film critiquing.
So
don't feed Rotten Tomatoes and especially
don't feed Armond White.
