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Reddit user claims the real RT score for The Odyssey is only 56%
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:40 am
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:40 am
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Summary
Out of 886 active Rotten Tomatoes users who – at the time of this writing – navigated to the site on their own to rate The Odyssey, only 498 (56%) rated it positively.
The current generated 97% score displayed so prominently is simply an artifact of a push notification pipeline heavily biased toward opening-weekend ticket buyers.
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Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:43 am to stout
Basically true score is not the “verified audience” they started in 2020, which score is horseshite.
It shouldn’t mean the review doesn’t count just because I didn’t buy a ticket through Fandango
It shouldn’t mean the review doesn’t count just because I didn’t buy a ticket through Fandango
This post was edited on 7/21/26 at 7:44 am
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:44 am to stout
When all else fails, just make shite up to fit the narrative 
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:45 am to stout
Any other subject or forum y’all would absolutely discredit Reddit as a legitimate source.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:46 am to stout
Cool. I'll definitely base my opinion of the movie on this reddit data instead of my actual experience while watching the movie.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:47 am to BluegrassBelle
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Any other subject or forum y’all would absolutely discredit Reddit as a legitimate source.
This is objective data, you can recreate it yourself.
There’s no opinion to be had here which is where Reddit fails
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:48 am to BluegrassBelle
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Any other subject or forum y’all would absolutely discredit Reddit as a legitimate source.
Who said it was valid?
My title says he "claims".
Nothing about it being valid.
People can read the info provided and make up their mind about the legitimacy
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:49 am to Jay Are
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Cool. I'll definitely base my opinion of the movie on this reddit data instead of my actual experience while watching the movie.
Wut?
No one said anything close to this. Just that RT may be hiding true scores of several movies because they weigh push ratings over actual ratings.
This post was edited on 7/21/26 at 7:58 am
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:53 am to wildtigercat93
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When all else fails, just make shite up to fit the narrative
you mean to tell me that "The Woman King" getting 99% and "The Lord of the Rings" getting 95% is valid?
This post was edited on 7/21/26 at 8:12 am
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:54 am to stout
I'm not sure why you would just completely toss out the "push" scores as invalid?
If you include all scores, the RT score is 92%
I didn't realize people even cared this much about RT scores
If you include all scores, the RT score is 92%
I didn't realize people even cared this much about RT scores
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:54 am to Proximo
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Basically true score is not the “verified audience” they started in 2020, which score is horseshite.
It shouldn’t mean the review doesn’t count just because I didn’t buy a ticket through Fandango
IMDB weighs scores as well because of the review bombing. It has The Odyssey at 8.4 out of 10 with roughly 145k reviews.
So if Rotten Tomatoes isn’t valid to you. And I assume for the same reason IMDB isn’t valid, what movie rating platform do you consider valid?
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:56 am to BluegrassBelle
I don’t know what IMDB is doing but 8.4 is much more reasonable than 97%. 97 is a bullshite score and you know it
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:56 am to stout
We’ve suspected the ratings have been messed with for a while. Essentially since Covid. It’s insane that everything changed during Covid, including totally unrelated things like this audience score calculation
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:56 am to Salmon
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I'm not sure why you would just completely toss out the "push" scores as invalid?
Yea I agree but I could see how it should be weighted differently
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I didn't realize people even cared this much about RT scores
I never check RT. I think it got bastardized long ago by Hollywood dollars
This post was edited on 7/21/26 at 8:01 am
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:57 am to Proximo
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I don’t know what IMDB is doing but 8.4 is much more reasonable than 97%. 97 is a bullshite score and you know it
So you don’t know what IMDB is doing to weigh their scores and you think it’s more valid?
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:58 am to stout
This has been common knowledge for a very long time. But for some reason, the retards and smooth brains on this board forget that every time a new movie comes out.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:59 am to BluegrassBelle
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IMDB weighs scores as well because of the review bombing.
Do they weigh them on the high end as well or is it only what they consider "bombing" that concerns them?
Posted on 7/21/26 at 8:01 am to Flats
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IMDb publishes weighted vote averages rather than raw data averages. The simplest way to explain it is that although we accept and consider all votes received by users, not all votes have the same impact (or ‘weight’) on the final rating.
When unusual voting activity is detected, an alternate weighting calculation may be applied in order to preserve the reliability of our system.
To ensure that our rating mechanism remains effective, we do not disclose the exact method used to generate the rating.
Weighted Average Ratings explanation
Posted on 7/21/26 at 8:05 am to wildtigercat93
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When all else fails, just make shite up to fit the narrative
It's very likely to make over a billion, so the goalposts had to be moved
Posted on 7/21/26 at 8:05 am to BluegrassBelle
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we do not disclose the exact method used to generate the rating.
So it's all a big game and they're not going to disclose their bias. They can move any score they want in a direction of their choice.
This post was edited on 7/21/26 at 8:06 am
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