A reader points out that 83 percent of the reviews of Star Wars ROTS have been positive, according to the rottentomatoes.com website, which also features a poll of its readers. And 88 percent of them like it too. “Seems that it’s a wee bit overreaching to think people reject the movie as much as you have. Your reaction is curiously like what I would expect from Democratic activists who really, really believe something and then assert because they believe it so much everyone believes it. Sometimes otherwise good people can in fact disagree with your usually astute opinions.”

That’s a nice way of putting it, and I thank you. But citing rottentomatoes.com against the plummeting second-week boxoffice numbers — unquestionably indicating disappointment and a lack of enthusiasm among those who have already seen it because they’re not going back to see it again — is a little like talking about the polls that showed Kerry won even though the hard numbers showed Bush’s victory. ROTS is rotting.