“The system is broken, audiences are dumber”: DCU Fans Ridicule Ezra Miller’s ‘The Flash’ Getting a High Rotten Tomatoes Score After Reviews Manipulation Controversy

"The system is broken, audiences are dumber": DCU Fans Ridicule Ezra Miller's 'The Flash' Getting a High Rotten Tomatoes Score After Reviews Manipulation Controversy

Ezra Miller had already found themself surrounded by controversies when they were causing trouble to the people back in 2021 and 2022. Following the charges, the actor was avoided from all promotions of the DCU film while James Gunn went on to praise the movie.

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Well, several fans are alleging that there is a company that directly pays money to critics to manage the Rotten Tomatoes score. With Ezra Miller’s The Flash receiving terrible reviews, there seems to be some form of manipulation as the Rotten Tomatoes score for the 2023 movie doesn’t seem right!

Ezra Miller in and as The Flash
Ezra Miller in and as The Flash

Ezra Miller’s The Flash Gets Accused of Paying Critics

It doesn’t seem a surprising rumor that the famous critic-review site Rotten Tomatoes has been allegedly working under the manipulation of a PR firm. Well, that is exactly what Twitter is alleging against the website as discrepancies in the rating of several movies have been found.

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Ezra Miller and Sasha Calle
Ezra Miller and Sasha Calle

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Amongst those movies, one of the iconic ones is Ezra Miller’s The Flash. With immense negative and positive reviews in the mix, the movie became one of those average-reviewed movies of the DCU. With a vast difference between critics’ scores and audience’s scores, fans are led to believe that Rotten Tomatoes has been hiding something from them.

And with this tweet, people started talking about how the movie didn’t deserve a rating and how the ‘math wasn’t mathing’.

Not only the fans but several directors have also spoken up against the practice of critics judging a movie unfairly. In an interview, Paul Schrader and notable director Quentin Tarantino talked about their takes on Hollywood critics.

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Quentin Tarantino Doesn’t Read Critics’ Work

Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino

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Ironically, the notable director is working on his tenth movie which is titled The Movie Critic. In an interview, the notable director talked about how film critics simply don’t care about how the movies are made or how much their reviews affect movies.

“Today, I don’t know anyone. I’m told, ‘Manohla Dargis, she’s excellent.’ But when I ask what are the three movies she loved and the three she hated in the last few years, no one can answer me. Because they don’t care!”

Paul Schrader, the American screenwriter and film director also talked about how audiences have become dumber.

“The studios didn’t invent Rotten Tomatoes, and most of them don’t like it. But the system is broken. Audiences are dumber. Normal people don’t go through reviews like they used to. Rotten Tomatoes is something the studios can game. So they do.”

The 2023 Ezra Miller movie received a rating of 6.8/10 on IMDB and a critic score of 63% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Flash is currently available to stream on Max in the U.S.

Source: Twitter

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Visarg Acharya joined FandomWire in 2022 as a Content Writer. Along with a penchant for writing, Visarg claims that words are the only true language made for him. Currently pursuing his B.Sc in Physics, the combination of Physics and Marvel make up for an interesting talk. Visarg Acharya has authored over 500 articles and reads books in his spare time along with an occasional series to accompany him.