For me the first thing that comes to mind is Tales from Earthsea. I don’t think it’s excellent or anything and has plenty of problems but people act like it killed their dog. While it has its problems that have been covered extensively, I think it has a beautiful atmosphere and art.

IMO it would have been better received if it wasn’t advertised as an Earthsea adaptation and was just its own thing.

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    7 months ago

    The 94% is an “audience score”. The only way I can rationalize it is they used a bot network, but I’ve got no proof. Maybe just a bunch of parents who took their kids rated it highly? 10,000 of them.

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      7 months ago

      Ever considered you weren’t the target demographic?

      I bet tons of little kids loved the movie. It became like a frozen to them.

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          Yeah, of course not lol. It was actually 20,000 children ages 5-11, because each review was written by two kids in a big coat to get past the bot filters.

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      7 months ago

      Rotten tomatoes is pretty wel-known in the industry as being bought-and-paid-for.