Originally posted by: Nanner Split

I feel like I'm watching a book burning in Salem while I'm tied to a dunking torture device.

Since when were there book burnings in Salem? Were the Puritans also Nazis or something?

Tomatometer Scores for Original Trilogy During Original Release Dates:
31% - Return of the Jedi
52% - The Empire Strikes Back
79% - Star Wars
Average Tomatometer: 54%

So you're saying that RottenTomatoes.com has been around since 1977?

I chuckle.

They started out by noticing that with their current active critics on Rotten Tomatoes, the OT handily beats the PT.

A lot of people were complaining that those figures were taking reviews of the OT from 97 (the SE release) and comparing them to reviews for the PT as they were first released.

So they went and did all kinds of research to dig up past reviews for the OT that were written around the time of those film's original releases, and it turns out there were a much higher percentage of unfavorable reviews back then compared to 20 years later.