ray245 wrote: ↑2019-06-28 07:30pm
Elfdart wrote: ↑2019-06-28 07:02pm
ray245 wrote: ↑2019-06-22 02:37pm
Who gives a shit about "consensus" with the exception of fanboys? Consensus is useful for deciding political matters, but what does that have to do with art and entertainment?
The world outside this forum don't give a shit about the consensus about the prequels.
Well, it does spare people the burden of thinking for themselves and forming their own opinions. Why bother when one can just look at the Tomatometer?
I mean the tomatometer of the PT isn't even that low compared to some really really badly recieved blockbusters.
Batman V Superman is considered a film with "mixed" reception despite scoring a low 27 percent on RT. But somehow the prequels are considered universally "bad" even though they scored 54, 65 and 80 percent on RT.
Saw "RT" and thought for a moment you were talking about Putin's propaganda network, not Rotten Tomatoes.
But yeah, I think that the biased narrative persists because "the Prequels were the worst movies ever, and everybody hated them" has been repeated so often by a relatively small group of bitter OT fanboys that other people just assume its true when it really isn't.
I was curious about how this would look for the Sequels, and FYI, the Disney films' Rotten Tomato ratings are:
The Force Awakens: 92% critics rating, 87% audience rating.
Rogue One: 84% critics rating, 86% audience rating.
The Last Jedi: 91% critics rating, 44% audience rating.
Solo: 70% critics rating, 64% audience rating.
While they normally have higher critics than audience scores, all scores except TLJ's audience score are well over 50% (and TFA and Rogue One score well above any of the Prequels), and even TLJ's audience score is much higher than the score for
Batman V Superman. The average for the ST (not counting the third film, which hasn't premiered yet) is a 91.5 critics rating and a 65.5% audience rating.
Of course, this all says jack shit about artistic quality, because appeal to popularity is a fallacy. But if we're discussing just popularity, then neither Prequels nor Sequels fall into "generally hated" by any means.