Star Wars: The Last Jedi’? Deciphering Online User Reviews From Exit Polls
Did Audiences Enjoy ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’? Deciphering Online User Reviews From Exit Polls However, readers have asked: How can it be that Last Jedi ‘s audience results are this high? They point to the Metacritic user score of 5 for the film, IMDB ’s 7.9 out of 10 rating, and the Rotten Tomatoes ’ Audience Score of 56% from 96K reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, Last Jedi ‘s user score is also an anomaly. Typically, user scores aren’t that far from their critical ratings. Simply put these are all unscientific means of measuring audience reactions. Anyone can log into these sites several times (anecdotally we played around with this last night) and weigh down the audience grades against a movie. The consensus from non-Disney sources this morning is that “trolling” occurred here in regards to the online reaction to Last Jedi. In addition, there’s no way to filter on these sites whether or not the users have actually seen Last Jedi or ...