Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes (English for Rotten Tomatoes ) is an English-language website, which also offers on television series since 1998 Information and reviews about movies since 2013.

History

Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998 by Senh Duong as a hobby project. His goal was to create a site that collects a wide range of U.S. movie reviews and represents. In collaboration with school colleagues, University of California, Berkeley - Patrick Y. Lee and Stephen Wang - as well as the web design company Design Reactor, the site was operated full time after the official release on 1 April 2000.

In June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired Rottentomatoes.com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corp's Fox Interactive Media, and IGN sold in January 2010, the website of the company Flixster, which produced an iPad app and other programs of the website for portable devices. In May 2011, Flixster Warner Bros. was purchased.

Rotten Tomatoes - members could create groups in which they discussed about movies. In the group "The Golden Oyster Awards" were members, for example, different prices to distribute films, like the Oscars or Golden Globes. As Rotten Tomatoes Flixster bought, all groups were dissolved. Flixster in that regard: " The group field is set to pave the way for new community features coming soon. In the meantime, please use the forums for discussions about your favorite movies. "

As of February 2011, the new community features have been presented and partially set again. Movies with positive rating can now, for example, no longer be sorted out from those with negative evaluation, and vice versa.

Since September 2013 Rated Rotten Tomatoes addition to films, television series.

Principle of operation

An aggregator searches the internet to find as many reviews from amateurs to professional reviews. If a report is positive, this characterized by a fresh (English for fresh) ( small icon of a red tomato), corresponding to negative reviews is classified as rotten (English for rotten ) and highlighted by green, busted tomatoes. If no grade is awarded, the editor himself quantified

In known films the number of reviews can go up to about 200. If a movie / game rated positively to more than 60%, a fresh awarded, this is not so, is a rotten movie. Since 2000 also Golden Tomato Awards are given for the bestrezensierten films of the previous year annually. ( "The Golden Tomato Awards pay tribute to the best -reviewed films of the previous year as deterministic mined by the website Rottentomatoes.com. " )

Tomatometer

There are the following valuation rules:

• Achieved a movie more than 75 % positive reviews, so it is marked as " guaranteed fresh" ( certified fresh ) and marked with a red tomato.
• Between 70 % and 75 % of the film can be also referred to as guaranteed fresh when he got very many reviews.
• Between 60 % and 70 % (possibly up to 75 %) of the film is classified as "fresh" ( fresh ) and receives a red tomato.
• Less than 60 % positive reviews, the film is classified as rotten ( rotten ) and marked with a green, burst tomato.

Using Rotten Tomatoes So you can get a quick overview of the reviews for a film that is accessed by this website for evaluation.

Informational without influence on the evaluation and public opinions are collected. If the public opinion about 60% or more positive it is represented by a filled cup of popcorn. With less than 60 % positive opinion of an empty audience, vice ejected cup popcorn is displayed.