How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’ Best Picture race

Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by fein on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:23PM (#16524547)

> Objective quality is not the most relevant metric in art.

And this is a disturbing trend.

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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by dasm on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:24PM (#16524562)

Art, by definition should not be objectively evaluated. Art is inherently subjective - objectively great art would not be art, as it loses personal meaning.

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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by B1FF_PSUVM on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:43PM (#16524738)

Comrade Zhdanov would not put it better.

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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by dasm on Monday March 05, 2018 @07:46PM (#16525977)

Perhaps you meant to compare the commentor above me to Zhdanov? His views seem diametrically opposed to what I said.

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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by B1FF_PSUVM on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:56AM (#16527904)

Right, the mania for 'politically correct' inspection of music, art, etc. went viral with Zhdanov, and even those who found the Soviets too authoritarian took it up with glee.

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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by mulmen on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:37PM (#16524685)

When was objective quality ever the most relevant metric in art? Why do you believe this is a trend?

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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by PhasmaFelis on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:37PM (#16524680)

The disturbing trend is people thinking objective criticism is possible, let alone desirable. Objective measurements of art literally do not exist.

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