's Hollywood war masterpiece "The Battle of Midway", which is currently being screened, has received a double hit at the box office since its release. Not only did it exceed 100 million yuan in the box office at the first weekend, it also became the single-day box office champion on Double Eleven. North America also maintained a good momentum of single-day box office champions. In terms of word-of-mouth, this hard-core and delicate epic war giant led the new film in the same period on all major platforms. The Douban score increased from 7.3 points at the beginning to 7.7 points. Many viewers rated the film as "Annual Best War Blockbuster".
However, some fans who care about "The Battle of Midway" noticed that the overseas ratings of the film are not ideal. In particular, the well-known film review information website Rotten Tomatoes only gave a freshness of 42% (equivalent to the likes of film critics), which corresponds to a freshness score of 92% by the audience. Another similar example is the recent popular movie "Joker", the masterpiece that won the highest award at the Venice Film Festival, only gained 69% of the freshness at Rotten Tomatoes, while the audience rating reached 89%.
This kind of quite differentiated scoring situation is largely caused by the scoring mechanism of Rotten Tomatoes-Rotten Tomatoes Freshness (Tomatometer) is the expert group's judgment on the preference of a movie, and the Audience Score (Audience Score) is for all websites A summary of the scores of registered users. To put it simply, the freshness is determined by two options, which are easy to differentiate between the two ends, while the audience rating is based on the scoring system, which is relatively objective overall.
Faced with the low freshness of Rotten Tomatoes, many foreign media were not optimistic about the box office performance of "The Battle of Midway" at first, but the audience used good ratings and movie tickets to justify the film’s name and investigate the audience’s viewing experience The American professional agency CinemaScore also gave a super high rating of film A, which just shows that the audience has begun to abandon the so-called authoritative score, and instead call their own movie experience as a good movie, whether it is the continuously increasing Douban score or Swordsman’s domestic and international box offices at the same time period reflect the high recognition of the film by the audience.
(data from Boxofficemojo.com)
