re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Tomatometer Watch - 95% 8.2/10 (185 reviews)

I respect Rotten Tomatoes but the score being pulled down a little bit smacks to me of guys that held off to see how this played out and are doing negative reviews to stick out for click bait.

Tickets for tomorrow night's first showing firmly in my grasp, muhahahahah.

I predicted 87% building in critics that want to go against the grain to seem smarter than everyone else.

The fact that we are mid 90's means even those guys are all in.

Want to see hipster and pretentious? Armond White.

Check out his reviews for any of the best Pixar movies: Up, Toy Story 2, etc.

He doesn't review big movies anymore though.

Well that's weird because Driver is usually considered a pretty good actor.

Some of these "rotten" reviews do not seem bad to me, like this one:

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Abrams is also too susceptible to the solemn self-mythologising that always threatened to spoil the fun of any Star Wars film. He hasn't made a terrible picture -- just a safe one, where the farthest reaches of fantasy feel merely routine.

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or this one:

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Somewhere along the way, Abrams begins delivering everything we expect, as opposed to those nebulous wonders we didn't know we wanted.

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I don't know how RT determines if something is rotten or not. Some critics were harsh in tone but gave it 2.5/4, but that is considered rotten. There are a total of 10 rotten reviews out of 185 total, and I would say maybe 2 or 3 truly despised the film per their comments and rating.

Those reviews are ridiculous. It's a Star Wars movie for Christ's sake. It's just supposed to be a fun film. That's it.

The purpose of being a reviewer is to let your audience know what's good and why and what's bad and why. While people have different views and opinions and that's a good thing, Armond was/is basically alone in how he views movies. So his audience was never those who agreed with him but rather those who wanted to argue/hate those opinions.

RT just gave people who hated him easier access to his reviews and while it drove clicks, it was getting out of hand both on RT and wherever his review was published.

People never understood that he's not a troll. He's been very consistent for decades. He does understand movies. His view was just too... unique is the nicest word I can think of.