Director Francis Ford Coppolacriticizes Rotten Tomatoes and the platform's effect on cinema. Coppola has now been making movies for over 60 years, and he's responsible for such classics as The Godfather (1972), The Conversation (1974), The Godfather: Part II (1974), and Apocalypse Now (1979), among others. Coppola's most recent endeavor as a director is the divisive Megalopolis, which earned mixed reviews and was a major box office disappointment earlier this year.
During a recent interview with CinePOP, Coppola sets his sights on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, explaining why he believes the site has had a negative impact on cinema. The director doesn't just mention Rotten Tomatoes, however, and also criticizes CineScore and, in general, the culture of film scoring. According to the legendary filmmaker, this scoring mindset is shaping movies into products that try to please everyone rather than pieces of art that take risks, which is what he thinks movies should be. Check out his full explanation below:
“Well, Rotten Tomatoes and CineScore and all of the very score system is a way to try to control cinema, which is art and shouldn't be controlled, by treating it like sports. In other words, we all know that in sports the teams play and some win, some lose, and that's a way to control whether the fans go. And since the modern movie industry wants to control how people go to movies because they don't want to lose money, they don't want risk, but real art has risk.
"I've often said that making art without risk is like making babies without sex. It's not possible. You have to leap into the unknown because that's where you prove you are free, which is another thing the film explains. And this is anathema to the modern system that is at work today. So the movie business doesn't want risk. They want movies to be like Coca-Cola or something."
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