I use Rotten Tomatoes often, especially when deciding whether or not I should add a flick to my Netflix queue. Using reviews from newspapers and websites around the country to come up with a “fresh” or “rotten” score on the “Tomatometer,” the site has become a reliable source of what’s what in film. In a recent Slate article, Christopher Beam and Jeremy Singer-Vine used the Tomatometer scores from the Rotten Tomatoes database to analyze careers in Hollywood. Sadly, the casualties of this scientific experiment were Jennifer Love Hewitt and Chuck Norris, who earned the titles of “Worst Actor/ Actress,” respectively. Chuck Norris bottomed the list of worst-reviewed actors while Jennifer landed at the bottom of the pile of actresses because of her penchant for starring in movies generally considered “rotten.” Mena Suvari came in a close second. Keep reading »
