Ummm we didn't just cite RT. There's also Cinemascore and others.
So? That just means that you've been using more than one film rating website to validate your enjoyment of the film and dismiss anyone who has critical opinions of it.
Let's call a spade a spade here, the movie has been received well by critics and audiences alike.
No one has said otherwise. What people have said is that the movie's reviews don't mean that now people who disagree with them are somehow being unreasonable for saying so.
The Question's method of analyzing the results/purpose is over-extravagant and completely unnecessary.
It is necessary if you want to actually have a meaningful conversation about film. It's not necessary and is over-extravagant if your goal is to "prove" which movies are good and which movies are bad, which completely misses the point of art.
Art is, in my opinion, the ultimate exercise in empathy. You create a work that speaks to you, filtered through how you perceive other people and your surroundings, in the hope of making a connection between how you think and feel and how your audience thinks and feels and discovering something in the process. And discussing art is a part of that process. Discussions about art can devolve into arguments about who is the smartest and most learned about art, something I admit I've been guilty of sometimes, but that's not what it should be. It shouldn't be about figuring out what's good and what's bad in some binary worldview. It should be about saying "this is how the art made me feel. This is how it engaged me and moved me and entertained me," or "this is how it failed to engage me, failed to move me, and failed to entertain me." It's looking at those mechanics at play and saying "this is what makes art effective to me and to most people, and this is what makes art distant and meaningless from myself and most people." And the joy of that, the very best part, is finding where these opinions don't line up. "This is what makes this movie good," says one, "but I hated that part," says another. Or vice versa. What makes that great is that it is a window into how other people think and feel. It helps us flex our empathetic muscles. It also helps us practice self reflection. Looking at something we love that someone else hates, or vice versa, causes us to look into ourself and ask "why do I feel this way? Way about me is different from that person, and what about them is different from me, that leads us to these two radically different views of the same thing?" And through engage that, through discussing those differences, you stand the chance of learning something about other people and yourself, and growing because of it. Maybe your opinion will change, and maybe it won't. But either way, you're walk away with a greater understanding of who you are, and a strengthened ability to connect with alien points of view, as well as a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the thing you both love.
Experiencing and discussing art can be, and should be, the greatest exercise in human empathy. It should be about saying "I need to find out why that person thinks differently from me and what it reveals about both of us," not "I need to prove that person is wrong.
Saying "it has 80% on RT, thus it is proven to be good and everyone who disagrees is wrong" is reductive and does not in any way reflect the nature of art and people's interaction with it.
That's part of why I hate Rotten Tomatoes. It reduces this beautiful process of human understanding down to 6th grade math, and 6th grade math is terrible.
Almost any film could have been "made better".
Yes. And in the case of this film, some people feel that there was a very specific choice made on the part of the studio that, had they taken another route, the movie would have been made
significantly better and would have been more to their liking.
And you know what? You don't have to agree with that. You're not obligated to think anything about any movie other than the opinions you already hold. That is fine.
But saying that other people are being unreasonable for suggesting that the makers of a movie you liked made a mistake and could have done better is just pointless and
mean.
These forums have a habit of turning into echo chambers where everyone either loves a thing or hates a thing and everyone who has a different opinion is labeled a troll and run off, and that is a damn shame. It's indicative of a wider mentality in nerd culture.
These public spaces, be they forums, conventions, comic book stores, game shops, or what have you, are supposed to be for the fee and respectful exchange of ideas about a shared interest. We may not always agree, but in exchanging our opinions on why certain pieces of art move us and why others don't and what the mechanics at play are, both within the work and within ourselves and within the context where we view the work, then we all gain a deeper appreciation for and understanding of the thing we love.
But that doesn't happen. Instead, we get petty tribalism and a panicked need to have the things we liked validated and to have other opinions dismissed.