Yeah, I saw that, Stake President Chung. He's claiming that "trolls" are deliberately trying to drive down the Tomato-Meter rating:Everybody Wang Chung wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 3:55 amFolks, you can’t make this stuff up. The proprietor of SeN is begging everyone to go over and post 5 star reviews on rottentomatoes.com. This is not a good look at all. I’m embarrassed for everyone involved in this project.
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"strangle our film in its cradle"? Come on. Allegedly, it was a bunch of misogynistic trolls and haters that drove down the Tomato-Meter rating for The Last Jedi, and yet I didn't see Rian Johnson bellyaching like this. Plus, DCP said that he *expected* negative reviews. How influential does he think the Tomato-Meter rating actually is? Will there be more ticket sales in the Zion corridor if the meter is at 82% rather than 75%?I admit to being somewhat indignant about what I see as unprincipled people abusing the “Rotten Tomatoes” system. (Plainly, it's easily abused.) I regard this sort of behavior as an unethical attempt to strangle our film in its cradle. And the film simply doesn't deserve that. Nor do the many people who sacrificed time and/or money and/or energy to create it — notable among them Mark Goodman, James Jordan, and Russell Richins. I dislike injustice, and yet it seems obvious to me that that's what this is.
Well, he himself seemed to hesitantly define the success of the film on the basis of whether or not it made back its budget. I guess that's now in doubt? I briefly checked out some of the screenings in Utah for this evening, and it really didn't look very good, I'm afraid. I'm guess that DCP's main fan-base (i.e., people who attend the FAIR conference, and who read Book of Mormon Central, the Mormon Interpreter blog, etc.) bought group tickets and that was how they got the film to screen in 40 states, but it may be that this is going to be it for the movie's theatrical run. Maybe it will have a "second life" on DVD/Blu-ray and streaming?