In a nutshell: 1) Fandango buys rotten tomatoes in 2016, 2) they expand/widen the critic reviewer pool to include nobody bloggers, and then 3) movie studios court/bribe small fish reviewers to inflate their scores so they can get the fresh rating as a marketing point for their latest flick.
Nice to finally have this all spelled out. I've been burned several times over the last few years watching movies with like 79% ratings on RT that I thought sucked. Now I know why.
What's the alternative? IMDB is owned by Amazon and has a super dumb recency bias. I use Letterboxd and that might be the best at the moment. But the user base there is smaller and sometimes it feels like the only people reviewing movies are the select few who went out of their way to watch it so they are inherently skewed to like it.
Thanks for the explanation; I do actually eat pizza the normal way I just wanted to post a nostalgic clip from my youth of Pizza Hut's Stuffed Crust pizza ad from back in the day
This has been exactly my experience as well. I've actually read that coffee is supposed to taste better when it's brewed with the unfiltered minerals in it, but I definitely think it tastes better with filters water. And I live somewhere with really good tap water.
