People want to quickly know if something is worth their time & money. RT allows them to quickly get a sense of what the professionals think: “84% of the critics said this was worth my time & money? Cool, that’s a solid number; I’ll consider checking it out this weekend.”
It’s that simple.
I get it: you’re likely upset that the snobby critics thumbed their nose at some movie you really liked. It sucks when people hate on something that’s special to you; I get that. But it only sucks for like one second; then you can close out of the tab & never think about it again.
In time, you’re going to realize that it doesn’t matter what a cartoon tomato bar on the internet says about a piece of art you like. What resonates with you is all that matters.
Holy smokes. It’s just a website to help consumers quickly discern whether or not a movie sucks & to click a link or two, to a full review from a professional critic, if they want further analysis.
Why are so many movie fans investing their hearts & souls into this very simple, consumer education website? You’re still allowed to like Batman vs Superman or whatever goddamn movie you’re butthurt about, regardless of what the little cartoon tomatometer says.
Haven’t the Grammy’s always operated in a genderless fashion? It would be fine.
The true problem, from a ratings/audience perspective, is that you’d be losing out on opportunities to give the famous people awards, which is largely what people are tuning in to see. Most of the awards given out on Oscar night go to people you’ve never heard of, so to lose the chance to highlight more A-listers is pretty risky, from a ratings perspective.
But in terms of the practicality of it? Of course they should do it. As Chris Rock noted in his opening monologue, during the 2016 Oscars: “it’s not track & field. There’s no reason to separate the performances based on gender.”
I’m not familiar with any of the comic book lore behind any of this stuff but it was pretty wild how Black Adam (or the 25-35 minutes of it that I made it through) was so painfully generic & plastic that it felt like something that was made in like 2005. It had no soul, direction or perspective whatsoever.
It really was the ultimate studio ploy to sell toys & vanity project to make The Rock look cool.
We learn nothing about him whatsoever, except that he likes American Idol, which could be said about millions upon millions of people in the mid-2000’s.
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People want to quickly know if something is worth their time & money. RT allows them to quickly get a sense of what the professionals think: “84% of the critics said this was worth my time & money? Cool, that’s a solid number; I’ll consider checking it out this weekend.”
It’s that simple.
I get it: you’re likely upset that the snobby critics thumbed their nose at some movie you really liked. It sucks when people hate on something that’s special to you; I get that. But it only sucks for like one second; then you can close out of the tab & never think about it again.
In time, you’re going to realize that it doesn’t matter what a cartoon tomato bar on the internet says about a piece of art you like. What resonates with you is all that matters.