Thirith on 21/6/2017 at 13:27
You can't really conclude from the Rotten Tomatoes rating that a movie was well rated. It just looks at whether a review was favourable overall or not, but 'favourable' can also mean that the reviewer said, "I was surprised by not hating the film as much as its predecessor. Even though the film as such isn't particularly good, it's definitely an improvement."
Renault on 21/6/2017 at 13:47
Either way, I wouldn't consider 70% to be "well rated." That's average at best.
Pyrian on 21/6/2017 at 16:16
RottenTomatoes displays the average rating right under the TomatoMeter. It's got 6.4/10 for 'Covenant, which is (A) pretty mediocre and (B) about what you'd expect for a 71% - the averages are almost always more moderate than the TM. You can also see the audience ratings; hilariously, 'Covenant's audience ratings are lower than the new Transformers (which has a 17% TM and 3.3/10 critic average).
Kolya on 21/6/2017 at 20:48
In the end critics (professional or not) don't mean much. I've watched loads of films that had worse Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB values than this. And I still had a good time.
So if you liked Prometheus: Good for you, rock on. It's not a terrible movie and had I seen it under different circumstances I might have enjoyed it a lot more.
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https://www.systemshock.org/Smileys/sbf/seriously.gifVivian on 21/6/2017 at 23:02
Prometheus definitely seems better after watching covenant. At least it seemed like Ridley gave a shit about how the engineers looked on film.
Sulphur on 22/6/2017 at 07:34
What Kolya said. I'm not a fan, but if you like the Promethenant reworkings, that's totally okay and you don't need anyone to validate your opinion.
icemann on 22/6/2017 at 13:36
Or for any movie or game for that matter.
I really enjoyed the movie "We Are Your Friends" which everyone else seems to hate, and that's fine. Each to their own.
Cardia on 22/6/2017 at 20:37
When i saw "Prometheus" in a big cinema screen i got amazed with the big landscapes introduced in the beginning of the movie, very beautiful , even throughout the film we get the chance to see impressive scenarios, and the soundtrack is also very good which helps to increase the suspense and the importance of the place the characters are exploring, the story about these creatures who are supposedly man kind creators is also very interesting. this first contact between humans and the creatures from this planet is very well done in this movie.
As for Alien covenant i got disappointed that Shaw was not present, and the presence of the famous alien creature we know from previous movies was somehow short in this chapter, also there are too many characters that didn't help us audience to get used or attached to them , but overall this movie was entertainment...but then entertainment doesn't mean positive for some people, right?
I think the deception expressed here comes probably from the expectation that many people made for this movie.
what if this movie was not american, would rotten tomatoes present a lower score? can critic reviewers get paid to give high scores and positive feedback? In any case Rotten tomatoes is usually a site where score is not most of the times very generous, because we have the audience , the critics and top critics score, for me i like to check a movie score on rotten tomatoes because usually the critic and top critics review goes along with my taste, rarely happens when i don't like a movie that is well rated. and i normally don't waste my time with movies that have negative score , because i know by experience its very likely i won't enjoy it.
As for imdb site, i´m not sure how reliable this site is, because the scores displayed there comes from only by the public.
Sulphur on 23/6/2017 at 07:45
Eh, there have been better movies about first contact. But if it's visuals you're after, yeah, Scott's pretty much world-class when it comes to that.
As far as RT scores are concerned, obviously reviewers can get paid to give high scores. That's a moral issue regardless of which country the movie's from. However, there is no data for this, and obviously, there won't be. The more direct thing to note is that the scores are non-weighted averages, so unless you only have a few reviews, it's hard to swing the score one way or the other. Hollywood releases generally have higher visibility and tend to garner more attention than most, so you usually have more reviewers paying attention; consequently it's going to be harder to pay a large swathe of critics to swing a score than a smaller release from elsewhere.
Cardia on 24/6/2017 at 19:50
Thank you Sulphur, that makes some things clear.
