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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Well--and I think this is Jiri's point--this list doesn't measure which movies are "better"--they just measure what critics at that time thought about them.
Star Wars in its time may well have received a lukewarm critical reception, despite its popular success. It has stood the test of time somewhat, but I can see a movie critic in 1979 writing it off as pablum.
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Is this site actually distilling Star Wars reviews from 1977? I know for current movies they use contemporary reviews... has Rotten Tomatoes gone back and put together old newspapers/magazines to figure out what all the critics thought at the time? I figured these reviews were done after, say, the invention of the internet (or the founding of Rotten Tomatoes?). If they're using critic pieces from 1977... then wow, Star Wars was underrated at the time it came out.
And no, I'm not a raving Star Wars fan... but when I see it compared to (and lower than) Children of Men I've got to scratch my head a bit, regardless of how the list was compiled.