The Tomatometer is a useless ratings tool.

And really, what else does the website Rotten Tomatoes have? Well, maybe the audience rating, which is the only accurate thing they can realistically claim. You see, the tomatometer is just an amalgamation of all the reviews by critics which are either positive or negative.

Now, I don't know about you and this is just my opinion but I, like most people, don't put any stock in critics' reviews. They are usually the opposite of what I end up feeling. Perfect example is Seven Pounds(2008). There were the most painfully bad reviews the weekend this movie opened, and going hand in hand with those negative reviews(by critics) was a tomatometer rating of 26%. I personally LOVE this movie, and I know alot of other movie fans, and Will Smith fans, who love it as well and they're jaws drop everytime I mention that this movie got such horrendously negative press. The audience rating for Seven Pounds btw is 77%. I'd rest my case but I feel like saying a little more.

It's also a pretty impossibly task to determine what makes a positive or negative review. Especially if you read reviews by critics or certain webmasters which contain blatantly ambiguous phrases which would lead you to believe they're going to slam the movie and then at the last sentence of the paragraph...................7/10! And vice versa.

Here's an example of each, see if you can determine the end result:

Star Wars:Clone Wars Review -

"As much as I worried about how the animation looked in the trailers, I’ve got to admit within about 3 minutes I was totally sold on it and thought it worked and looked quite beautiful."

"Instead of the iconic opening crawl setting the stage, some 1960′s game show announcer does some ass awful narration to start the film. I wanted to claw out my own ears he sounded so bad. Damn… and we’re only 30 seconds into the movie!"

"The dialog was beyond horrendous. I’m not even going to go into it"

"Yes, there are many rotten things wrong with this “movie”, but as I mentioned there was a hell of a lot of really high quality action and “fun” that had me being entertained despite the weaknesses. I refuse to call this a true “Star Wars” movie, and I’ll never accept it as cannon, but for what it was, by the time the credits roled I didn’t mind it too much."

Care to guess the rating? 6/10. I don't know about you but that's about the most schizophrenic road map from review to rating I've ever read.

Here's the opposite end:

A Very Harold And Kumar Christmas Review -

"As far as comedy goes it’s undeniable that this movie hits a couple of very strong high notes a few times. There’s a great little homage to the classic “A Christmas Story” frozen pole scene that nearly made me spit up my popcorn, a few sharp and well timed one liners and a great scene exploring the true sexuality of Neil Patrick Harris that all had me laughing really hard. It seems like all the Harold and Kumar films have been able to hit those high notes that provide some of the best laughs of the year."

"It was a very well written and acted scene that I’m sure made a lot of married guys pause for a second to think about their wives"

"You just can’t have a Harold and Kumar film without Neil Patrick Harris. This guy is pure entertainment on a thin stick. No, he wasn’t quite as funny in this third installment of the franchise as he was in the other two, but he still delivered some of the best laughs in the movie and is fun to watch on screen."

"While there certainly are some great laugh out loud moments in A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, the unfortunate thing is there just aren’t enough. Good comedies have the BIG laugh moments, a bunch of GOOD laugh moments, and then a bunch of smaller grin moments. Harold and Kumar hit the BIG laughs, but after those few scenes there wasn’t much else to smile at. It felt desperate and random and… well… dull"

"There are some big laugh out loud moments with a solid “moral of the story” hit at the end and Neil Patrick Harris is always a treat, but unfortunately it just isn’t all that funny and feels more like a random assortment of skits than a feature film."

Yeah, another spaghetti straw of a review. Annnnnnnnnd drumroll! 4/10!

Seriously, just cut and paste all the multiple personalities represented here and try to make up one positive or one negative review. Exhausting just navigating. Admittedly, I used two reviews from the same person because this individual is a HUGE proponent of the Rotten Tomatoes system. So much so that in virtually every sentence about movies the freshness rating is mentioned ad nauseum. Not a selling point.

Again, this was just my opinion but i know i'm not the only one.

To those who got robbed, we salute you!

I know I'm not the only one who was bored by this year's oscars, though for a different reason. I didn't know ahead of time who was sure to win, I was just bored by those that did. They didn't deserve to in my opinion. Those who got robbed this year by either getting nominated and losing to the King's Speech et al, or by not getting nominated at all. I'll only cover the categories I care about. Starting from the top:

Best Picture

The Social Network - Best picture of the year. Just accept it.
Inception - Also better than The King's Speech.

Oh and something else, I haven't even seen The King's Speech and I know it wasn't better than The Social Network, just trust me on this. Saying that those who thought it shouldn't have won most likely haven't seen it is bullshit, it wasn't as good, plain and simple. I'm not the only who would say that, if you claim to have never said "I don't even need to see that movie to know it's not as good" or some variation then you're a fucking liar. Just my opinion. Moving on.

Shutter Island - Should've been there to bump King's Speech out.
The American - Should've been there to bump Toy Story 3 out.

Best Actor

Jesse Eisenberg - Colin Firth didn't deserve it, sounded irritating from what I had heard of his performance. Just like Cate Blanchett in The Aviator.

George Clooney - Should've been there to bump Colin Firth or Jeff Bridges out.

Best Supporting Actress

Jackie Weaver - Better than Melissa Leo.

Best Original Song

If I Rise(127 Hours) - Toy Story 3 song wasn't even good.

Best Original Screenplay

Inception - King's Speech? Really? Give me a fucking break, fiction is by nature more original than a true story. Especially a boring one.

Best Adapted Screenplay

The American - should've been nominated at least.

Best Director

Anton Corbijn(The American) - shoud've been there to bump Tom Hooper out.

In short, The American also deserved nominations for Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing.

Best Foreign Film

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - I can't even fathom why this didn't get nominated or why no one appears to be upset, it also should've won but the douches needed to nominate it first. This is probably the second biggest snub for this year's oscars in my opinion.

Lord Of The Rings Extended Blu-rays coming....let the bitching and moaning commence!

Just checked out the promo video for this on Aintitcool and I'm honestly psyched. I picked up the original trilogy when it hit Blu-ray because, well, I love the movies.....both versions. They look great on Blu-ray despite what some people say. They can't wait for the extended versions because they think they'll look soooooo much better. It's almost as if they now deny ever seeing and enjoying the originals in theatres and only hold the extended versions as gospel. Get over it. The theatrical versions started it all. It was the THEATRICAL VERSION of Return Of The King that won 12 ACADEMY AWARDS, not the extended version. I love the extended versions more than the theatricals too, but I don't deny the originals. Similar to the people who say they hate the original Blade Runner. Ummm, guys? It was the original version of Blade Runner that started all the so-called buzz and gave it it's cult status. Again, I like the Final Cut of Blade Runner better than the rest of the versions, including the original, but I still enjoy the original. So shut the fuck up and quit deluding yourselves. Sorry about going off topic a little but it needed to be said. Just my opinion.