Brett Ratner, director of Movie 43 and X-Men: The Last Stand, is blaming critics for the alleged downfall of Hollywood.
The movie mogul says the "destruction of our business" is being caused by review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, which calculates a film's 'Tomatometer score' out of 100 by averaging a wide range of different critical ratings.
Ratner also has credits for producing the likes of Skyline, Double Take and Code Name: The Cleaner - which have shockingly low Tomatometer scores of 16, 12 and 4, respectively.
"The worst thing that we have in today's movie culture is Rotten Tomatoes," Ratner said at the Sun Valley Film Festival last week.
"I think it's the destruction of our business. I have such respect and admiration for film criticism... [but] now it's about a number. A compounded number of how many positives vs negatives.
"That's sad, because the Rotten Tomatoes score was so low on Batman v Superman I think it put a cloud over a movie that was incredibly successful."
Ratner's company RatPac Entertainment co-financed Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which has an Tomatometer rating of 27.
"People don't realise what goes into making a movie like that. It's mind-blowing. It's just insane, it's hurting the business, it's getting people to not see a movie," Ratner said.
"In Middle America it's, 'Oh, it’s a low Rotten Tomatoes score so I'm not going to go see it because it must suck'. But that number is an aggregate and one that nobody can figure out exactly what it means, and it's not always correct."
Movie 43, a feature-length collection of vignettes from multiple directors including Ratner, has a Tomatometer score of just four and was cited by a variety of notable critics as one of the worst films ever made.
Rotten Tomatoes responded to Ratner's comments by stating it is making easier than it's ever been for fans to access potentially hundreds of professional reviews for any given film.
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