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20 hours ago, RIPPA said:

Baby Driver has been at 100% for like a month.

We have referenced that several times.

Check your eyes old man

So you see the point I'm trying to make, granddad, since I also know that it has been 100% for over a month (Hint:  All caps and a lot of !'s ring a bell?). 

The reviews are still coming in and it is still 100%, so it's not likely to drop on release.

It will probably end up being the best reviewed movie of the summer.

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On 5/31/2017 at 5:52 PM, Elsalvajeloco said:

Baby Driver is still 100% but only 23 reviews. That could easily fall on either side depending on the number of reviews.

It gained a whooping 3 reviews in 3 weeks

So let's not act like it being 100% is shocking

All it takes is 4 or 5 bad reviews to put it behind Wonder Woman (and most likely Dunkirk since critics are sheep)

And Captain Underpants will be one of the best reviewed movies of the summer. I have no faith in humanity anymore

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9 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

It gained a whooping 3 reviews in 3 weeks

So let's not act like it being 100% is shocking

All it takes is 4 or 5 bad reviews to put it behind Wonder Woman (and most likely Dunkirk since critics are sheep)

By that logic, it would be easy for Baby Driver to finish in the mid to high 90s because it has been sitting at 100%. There was probably several critics that chose to rewrite Wonder Woman review in the matter of a few hours. Imagine having to marinate on a film that does not have has negative review yet, and most likely, won't have a negative review until it actually gets released to almost everyone. 

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Was Baby Driver shown at a Festival or something - looking at the review dates and the majority of them are from Mid-March

EDIT - Found my own answer within the reviews.

It was screened at SXSW - which somewhat makes sense considering it's heavy music focus (which a lot of the reviews are focusing on)

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Also - and this is a RT question using Baby Driver as the example - do critics write their own blurbs?

I always thought the little blurbs where pulled out of the reviews but the guy from Variety's blurb is 

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Like all Edgar Wright movies, "Baby Driver" is a blast, featuring wall-to-wall music and a surfeit of inspired ideas. But it's also something of a mess ...

And those words appear nowhere in his actual review

So I am wondering if the blurbs are from the reviewer or is RT writing them and (like headlines) can totally misrepresent a review

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Well, as everyone loves to tell me, the content of the review really doesn't matter so long as the indicator points to Fresh or Rotten.

3 hours ago, RIPPA said:

And Captain Underpants will be one of the best reviewed movies of the summer. I have no faith in humanity anymore.

At 71 reviews posted, I still call bullshit on this.  No major summer movie ever released has had as few reviews as this one.

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Aww... you really do hate my posts

RIPD a few years ago only had 60 reviews

All Eyez on Me only has 45 - I think it will have less reviews than CU ends up having

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27 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

RIPD a few years ago only had 60 reviews

All Eyez on Me only has 45 - I think it will have less reviews than CU ends up having

It's not just the dearth of reviews that bother me about CU. 

It is the fact that this movie appears to be praised for qualities that would damn other movies and even the lukewarm reviews are certified fresh.

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Animated films do seem to be judged in a different way than other films..  Most adults I've talked to who have seen things like Secret Life of Pets or what's the other one... Sing  or Minions, they had a lukewarm or "ehhhhh" reaction to them but you'll often see most critics will give them a passing grade.  I think an animated flick has to be a complete abomination to fall into the 40s or below 

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For the moment - Transformers has dropped to 15% which ties it with The Mummy

So depending on how the tiebreaker works out - I might have the tiniest bit of relief

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1 hour ago, RIPPA said:

For the moment - Transformers has dropped to 15% which ties it with The Mummy

So depending on how the tiebreaker works out - I might have the tiniest bit of relief

Transformers is at 17 fresh out of 111 reviews = 15.32%.  The Mummy is 34/220 = 15.45%.  So The Mummy is very slightly ahead.

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God - one of the Fresh reviews of Transformers (which is a 4 out of 4) wrote

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It's … kind of entertaining? In the way I assume riding a roller coaster while on meth is probably kind of entertaining? It's somewhat funny and it's somewhat exciting but, more than anything else, it's like stepping into a wind tunnel cranked up to Category 5. You don't soon forget a thing like that, and unforgettable moments at the theater are few and far between these days.

The reviewer than says he can't remember any of the plot and then says

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I don't like to do this—stars are so gauche—but I feel the need to give Transformers: The Last Knight four stars out of four. And I also give it zero stars out of four. This does not "average" out to two stars. It exists in both states of quality at the same time, a sort of Schrodinger's Movie. Transformers: The Last Knight is great and terrible all at once. Behold. Tremble. Consume.

So if anyone wanted another example of RT's flawed methodology

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UPDATE 7 OF 17 - through June 22

Standings

1 [- 1] CSC - 12 points (6/6, tiebreak 1.342)
2 [ 14] J.T. - 18 points (8/10, tiebreak n/a)
3 [ 4] Paco - 20 points (10/10, tiebreak 0.157)
4 [ 8] Ace - 22 points (12/10, tiebreak 0.041)
5 [ 2] Elsalvajeloco - 22 points (8/14, tiebreak 0.108)
6 [- 6] The Z - 22 points (14/8, tiebreak 1.409)
7 [ 21] King Leonidas of Sparta - 24 points (14/10, tiebreak n/a)
8 [ 15] The Unholy Dragon - 24 points (16/8, tiebreak n/a)
9 [ 10] Rippa - 26 points (14/12, tiebreak 0.132)
10 [ 7] _MJ_ - 26 points (10/16, tiebreak n/a)
11 [ 3] The Erotic Terrorist - 26 points (12/14, tiebreak n/a)
12 [- 12] S.K.o.S. - 28 points (12/16, tiebreak 0.318)
13 [ 24] Sublime - 30 points (8/22, tiebreak 0.284)
14 [ 5] The Natural - 30 points (22/8, tiebreak n/a)
15 [ 20] Lacelle - 30 points (10/20, tiebreak n/a)
16 [ 17] Hail Sabin - 32 points (18/14, tiebreak 0.041)
17 [ 9] ivpvideos - 32 points (14/18, tiebreak 0.126)
18 [ 22] Niners Fan in CT - 32 points (12/20, tiebreak 9.002)
19 [ 26] Kuetsar - 34 points (16/18, tiebreak 0.735)
20 [ 19] JRGoldman - 36 points (16/20, tiebreak 0.098)
21 [ 23] Phantom Lord - 36 points (18/18, tiebreak 0.164)
22 [ 11] hobo joe - 36 points (18/18, tiebreak 0.181)
23 [ 25] caley - 36 points (20/16, tiebreak 0.215)
24 [ 16] RossWB - 36 points (18/18, tiebreak n/a)
25 [ 13] DreamBroken - 40 points (22/18, tiebreak 0.097)
26 [ 18] SorceressKnight - 46 points (24/22, tiebreak 0.105)

Box office

1 [- 1] Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - $345,741,332 (28 days)
2 [- 2] Wonder Woman - $293,205,158 (21 days)
3 [- 3] Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - $154,765,326 (28 days)
4 [NEW] Cars 3 - $74,707,893 (7 days)
5 [ 4] Alien: Covenant - $72,185,985 (28 days)
6 [ 7] The Mummy - $62,683,670 (14 days)
7 [ 6] Capt Underpants - $61,463,176 (21 days)
8 [ 5] Baywatch - $55,732,692 (28 days)
9 [ 8] King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - $37,760,563 (28 days)
10 [NEW] All Eyez On Me - $32,792,319 (7 days)
11 [NEW] Transformers: The Last Knight - $23,795,489 (2 days)

Rotten Tomatoes

1 [- 1] Wonder Woman - 280/305 = 92% (21 days)
2 [- 2] Capt Underpants - 60/71 = 85% (21 days)
3 [- 3] Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - 238/293 = 81% (28 days)
4 [- 4] Alien: Covenant - 202/286 = 71% (28 days)
5 [NEW] Cars 3 - 83/127 = 65% (7 days)
6 [ 5] Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - 60/209 = 29% (28 days)
7 [ 6] King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - 57/200 = 29% (28 days)
8 [NEW] All Eyez On Me - 11/50 = 22% (7 days)
9 [ 7] Baywatch - 34/178 = 19% (28 days)
10 [NEW] Transformers: The Last Knight - 20/126 = 16% (2 days)
11 [ 8] The Mummy - 34/221 = 15% (14 days)

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Scores are a little skewed this week as Transformers is currently at the bottom of the box office list, but that's just because it's only been out for 2 days.  So everyone who has it high on their box office list temporarily picks up a ton of points, while others who have it lower or left it off benefit.

Although, Transformers didn't exactly have an amazing debut for a Wednesday opening.  It did similar numbers to Moana.

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5 hours ago, RIPPA said:

They already have the Bumblebee spinoff movie in the works

We will continue to suffer every two to three years

The Bumblebee one is suppose to start filming in August to be released in June 2018 with the next Transformers installment the summer after that. So basically every year.

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