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

Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by delete2 on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:53PM (#16524820)

RT is certainly losing my favor, it's Disney garbage everywhere, the top movies consist of whatever came out in the last 2 years, the algorithm just isn't good.

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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by MiddleEndian on Monday March 05, 2018 @05:16PM (#16525043)

Their algorithm is mostly unchanged as far as I can tell. They take a bunch of critics and aggregate their reviews as positive or negative. Therefore most of their highly recommended movies are, and always have been, predominantly broad-appeal films that are mostly inoffensive.

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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by srtjstjsj on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:55AM (#16527150)

RT's increasing popularity has created pressure to make more mass-appeal mediocre movies, as movies are rewarded for being "watchable" and get no bonus points for being "excellent" (and excellence which might turn off segments of the audience if any controversial choices are made en route).

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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by MiddleEndian on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:04PM (#16540375)

I'm not entirely convinced this is a result of RT. Studios have been looking for ways to produce broad appeal blockbusters forever.

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