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Their opinions don't mean **** today, IMO.
Agreed, unfortunately the corporate world has monetized their opinions via RT. Today for instance I was looking up showtimes on Fandango for Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit. The first thing I see next to the film's showtimes is the RT symbol with "92%" over it. I don't give a **** about what percentage it has on that moronic site. I'd watch anything by Bigelow. But that's the problem. The average moviegoer has been conditioned over the last decade to use that advertised percentage as a decision maker for what movies he skips in theaters or watches. So if Bigelow's movie had a 22% (like BvS) and I was an "average moviegoer", I'd basically skip the movie, pirate it, make fun of it while I watch it on my laptop and post about how bad it is on forums while the movie is still playing in the background. That's the absurd film culture the corporate machine has been building for years now. A culture that landed BvS a lower score than most Adam Sandler movies.