Fair enough. Either way, I’m cautious about dismissing metrics because they are a useful tool for estimating how widespread a viewpoint. With my professional background, I’ve found that even in soft industries and human sciences, it’s useful to have a general idea of what most people (or most critics) think. And yes, I believe that it is perfectly possible and aggregators help in that respect.
Hence I don’t see how any clarification about RT devalues the argument at all. To me, the fact that a generic majority think these films are okay more often than they think films like Joker are okay still mostly serves to support the argument that this is due to political correctness. It’s just that RT to me is the most obvious metric to judge that sort of thing. I could find some ‘best films of Year X’ lists to see how often ‘woke’ films pop up and might do so.
Hence I don’t see how any clarification about RT devalues the argument at all. To me, the fact that a generic majority think these films are okay more often than they think films like Joker are okay still mostly serves to support the argument that this is due to political correctness. It’s just that RT to me is the most obvious metric to judge that sort of thing. I could find some ‘best films of Year X’ lists to see how often ‘woke’ films pop up and might do so.
You could also find Joker getting tons of prestigious awards and nominations than virtually any of the films that you’re touting as being perceived as “better films” due to RT scores. If that were true, Paddington 2 and Leave No Trace would’ve dominated these ceremonies.