Kirk Cameron Tried to Cheat Rotten Tomatoes and Failed

Pro tip: If you make a terrible movie, don't try to cheat the system to get good reviews. It probably won't work.

Kirk Cameron learned this lesson the hard way when he called out to fans to try to game Rotten Tomatoes in order to get a high audience score on the movie review site.

See, Kirk made this movie called "Saving Christmas," which is his way of fighting against the apparent "War on Christmas" where people...don't say "Merry Christmas" to you or something. Honestly, we're not sure what Kirk is complaining about exactly...we're in the middle of Christmas shopping and there seems to be plenty of Christmas cheer everywhere.

There's a lack of cheer on the Rotten Tomatoes pack for "Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas" though, as the reviews from critics currently stand at about 8 percent positive. That's an abysmally low number (worse than "Showgirls," for comparison), and it's not because critics are part of the "War on Christmas." It's because it's a terrible, terrible movie.

But Cameron didn't let that get him down.

"All of you who love Saving Christmas - go rate it at Rotten Tomatoes right now and send the message to all the critics that WE decide what movies we want our families to see!" he wrote on his Facebook page. "If 2,000 of you (out of almost 2 million on this page) take a minute to rate Saving Christmas, it will give the film a huge boost and more will see it as a result!"

That's not exactly how the site is supposed to work.

For a while, Cameron's call to arms was having the intended effect, and the audience reviews got as high as 94 percent. But then the "haters and atheists," as Cameron put it, started giving their input.

The audience reviews now stand at 35 percent.

And that, folks, is why you play by the rules.