While you are all talking about real things, I'm still stuck on the culture wars around Snow White. It's opening weekend grossed $87 million worldwide, which is disappointing and indicating it will not be a financial success (supposedly have to gross more than $500 million to cover production and marketing/distribution costs). Lots of negative articles, lots of hand wringing over Disney's woke bias, but Rotten Tomatoes has gotten my interest.
They quote verified review numbers and total review numbers. The verified reviews are
supposedly from people who bought their theater tickets thru Fandango, which owns Rotten Tomatoes, or any other online seller that they can mine your email from. They say they are trying to weed out trolls and this verified number is what shows up in publications' articles quoting Rotten Tomatoes about audience reviews.
As of today, Rotten Tomatoes verified reviewers rate Snow White 74% favorable and the total of all their reviewers is only 23% favorable. On IMDB, which doesn't try to verify its reviewers, the number is 20% favorable, with over 63,000 ratings so far.
I dunno but something seems off here. Either an AI troll has taken over all the ratings on the internet or their verified number, which is widely quoted, is off. I'm leaning toward there is something off at Rotten Tomatoes.
(it kinda feels like "officials" in California certifying fair elections but who knows.)
