Hollywood Tripe

Rottentomatoes shows aggregate statistics collected from various review sites all over the internet. I use it to decide if a film is worth paying to see in theatres. I've effectively stopped seeing movies since I started reading this site.

More revealing, perhaps, is that in a given theatre with 10 films, typically only a single film will have an aggregate rating of greater than 60% positive ratings. One out of ten. The other 9 films were each considered by 60% of the reviews to be poor.

However, this is in contrast to the independent movies, which in spite of their limited distribution are often rated fantastic. This says something about either the distributors or the clientelle, or both. Or perhaps it says something about the standard of the review, but I am skeptical of that, based on personal experiences with both independent and Hollywood movies.