Members of the Hollywood industrycontinue to questionthe larger implications of these rating systems in light of films likemother!
(whichreceived an F CinemaScore) andFlatliners(whichstarted out with a 0 percent Rotten Tomatoes grade).
The negative ones obviously arent much fun, but they come with the territory.
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Over the past 20 years or so, many things have changed in cinema.
One of these changes, he continues, is how entertainment journalism focuses on box office.
Im afraid that theyve become…everything, Scorsese remarks.
The filmmaker is reduced to a content manufacturer and the viewer to an unadventurous consumer.
The rush to judgment with Darren Aronofskysmother!prompted Scorsese to pen the column.
Good films by real filmmakers arent made to be decoded, consumed, or instantly comprehended.
Theyre not even made to be instantly liked.
Tomatometer ratings and Cinemascoregrades will be gone soon enough.
Maybe theyll be muscled out by something even worse.
Or maybe theyll fade away and dissolve in the light of a new spirit in film literacy.
Meanwhile, passionately crafted pictures like mother!
will continue to grow in our minds.
Vogt-Robertscondemned the YouTube series CinemaSinsin response to a particularly scathing dissection of his King Kong film.
It had merit to itself, Roberts began in a series of tweets.
