Rotten Tomatoes 42% and audience score is 91%?? Critics are completely out of touch

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Rotten Tomatoes 42% and audience score is 91%?? The critics are completely disconnected from what people actually want!!

RT score measures what percentage of critics gave a positive review — it is not a measure of how enjoyable a film is. Critics are evaluating cinematic craft. A mass-audience entertainment film was not made to satisfy those criteria, and judging it by them produces a meaningless number.

Audience 91% answers the actual question: did people who watched this enjoy it? For this type of film, that's the relevant metric. Both numbers are valid for different questions. Citing one to dismiss the other is intellectually dishonest.

Audience score vs critical score divergence analysis for genre films is genuinely interesting. The misalignment reflects critics evaluating against prestige film criteria, not genre criteria.

Genre criticism requires genre context. A horror film evaluated against Bergman standards is being evaluated wrongly. The RT/Letterboxd divergence captures this systematically.

Rotten Tomatoes 42% and audience score is 91%?? The critics are completely disconnected from what people actually want!!

RT score measures what percentage of critics gave a positive review — it is not a measure of how enjoyable a film is. Critics are evaluating cinematic craft. A mass-audience entertainment film was not made to satisfy those criteria, and judging it by them produces a meaningless number.

Audience 91% answers the actual question: did people who watched this enjoy it? For this type of film, that's the relevant metric. Both numbers are valid for different questions. Citing one to dismiss the other is intellectually dishonest.