People do realise that ‘cinema’ is neither an invention or an exclusive visual/audio medium of the US???
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets scores a 47% on the tomatometer, though it just edges by with 53% audience score.
I thought it was a fun brain-off popcorn movie.
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“People” do a great many things. You’d have to ask them. 
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It occurs to me now that one would expect a lot of bad contemporaneous reviews just from Hearst-owned publications alone, but maybe WRH thought it was better to ignore it after release and hope it would die in obscurity?
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As I recall, Hearst banned coverage, so not even negative reviews.
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Well it was made by a smug smart ass 27 year old.
Come now. Those guys are HEROES. I somehow came into possession of the DVD. It is still shrink wrapped.
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Ok, I didn’t realize we were looking at audience score too, so it is harder but still easy if I go to my beloved horror movies:
The Open House (Netflix, 8% Audience)
The Hallow (I love Irish horror movies especially, 43% audience)
The Hole in the Ground (48%)
Incarnate (24%, I feel like this one needed a bigger budget but I liked it!)
The Nun (35%)
If it is supernatural horror, and the dog doesn’t die. I will watch it and probably like it. I am honestly running out of movies (haunted house ones are my favorite).
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What’s this one like?
The director’s a lovely guy and he’s made good movies though he never mentioned some of his films to me…
Depends on what its purpose is. For movies just coming out, RT is invaluable to see whether a movie is crap or not, or choosing between two movies to see, etc.
For older movies, the reviews are mostly modern or at least post-theater run reviews, so you get a lot of hindsight re-evaluations.
I just wish for historical purposes there were a way you could select to see one or the other, or sort by date of review
I have an easy one- Waterworld. 47% on RT, and I genuinely like it. I’ve seen it twice in theaters and tell people with only moderate shame that I like it. I genuinely think it’s underrated, largely because it became a cultural meme to dunk on it (pardon the pun). I’m not gonna die on a hill defending it, but I enjoy it entirely irony-free.
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When you talk about older movies, do you mean five years ago or fifty? It seems to me like they have mostly just feature contemporary reviews for internet era-films (anything from the late nineties), but I haven’t done a deep dive of the data. If there are more recent reviews of, say, the Matrix, they seem to be in the minority.
Oh man, I haven’t seen that one but its on my to watch list. I will check it out.
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In terms of Rotten Tomatoes, “older movies” means movies older than rotten tomatoes. So yeah, internet-era movies have mostly contemporary reviews. For The Matrix they add newer reviews but that’s dwarfed by the hundreds they gathered at the time. There are just way more contemporary reviews nowadays for every movie, those are going to be the bulk for a long time for newer movies.
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