Warner Bros. has announced the acquisition of the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes and its parent, the "social" movie site Flixster.
As part of the deal, Flixster will still run independently but will expand beyond its current movie discovery niche.
It is unclear how much the studio paid, but WSJ reports the value of the sites at $60-90 million.
Says Warner:
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Seriously! That's BS. I love Rotten Tomatoes... I'll never be able to trust their reviews ever again. But I'm sure WB wouldn't fire someone for giving a negative review on a WB Produced movie...
Consider both of these sites dead for the time being...it sounds like Flixster will become a streaming service, and that might be good if it is 100% free and you can't get netflix in your country...but RT has no more value and should just close their site.
Use IMDB.ORG ...they are owned by Amazon...still corporate, but not biased to one studio.
You know what RT was always pretty unreliable anyway. Anyone can open an account and give it a thumbs up or down. No way to track it. IMDb requires you use a credit card to authenticate an account. So when it comes to ratings I ALWAYS trusted IMDb over RT. RT's ratings are manipulated by Studios and fanboys that open tons of fake accounts to bump up a lame movies score. As far as I'm concerned they've never been a good site.
Originally posted by jookycola: You know what RT was always pretty unreliable anyway. Anyone can open an account and give it a thumbs up or down. No way to track it. IMDb requires you use a credit card to authenticate an account. So when it comes to ratings I ALWAYS trusted IMDb over RT. RT's ratings are manipulated by Studios and fanboys that open tons of fake accounts to bump up a lame movies score. As far as I'm concerned they've never been a good site.
I totally agrre. I've seen movies that I absolutely loved and they have horrible RT reviews. On the other hand, I've seen movies that completely suck and they have amazing reviews. What a croc of crap! I think that RT tries to intentionally get movies to bomb in ticket sales. Prince of Persia is an example. It was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It was about as good as a video game adaptation could get and I liked it enough to buy it on BD when it came out, yet the reviews tried to tank it. It still made something like $336 million though. I've never trusted RT's reviews. I ask my friends first if I have doubts. I have friends who see every single movie there is no matter how crappy it looks, then I get there take as to wether or not I should see it. Blockbusters are usually safe to go on opening day though.
