A few weeks back, we ZONINO!ed the blockbuster film, Inception. I had gone to see it with a few friends and upon exiting the theater in unanimous agreement that it was indeed a great movie, we began to discuss why some people might have not liked it. Other than being out-right stupid or having ADD and, therefore, not "getting it," we could not come up with a viable reason. Later, I popped on one of my favorite research/reference websites, Rotten Tomatoes, to discover the reason for myself and realized, that this site has never made a ZONINO! appearance and definitely should have. Drum roll...
Rotten Tomatoes is a site that combines the reviews of the major film critics from all of the major and reputable journals, newspapers, and magazines, and puts them all in one place. The site also assigns a general score to each review. Obviously some publications assign a letter grade, some use a star system - some with varying number of celestial symbols - while others do a simple thumbs-up/thumbs-down approach. The site manages to find a happy medium to summarize them all. Also, for quick reference, next to each reviewers' stub, there is a splatted green blob or a ripe red fruit, symbolizing the website's overall take on the critic's review.
This is a good site to bookmark and check out before heading out when you don't know what to see. The site also boasts trailers of upcoming films as well as fun lists and movie trivia. And of course its good when you can't figure out how someone could dislike a movie too!
Sergio del Limónar
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