December 20, 20195 yr On 12/19/2019 at 9:55 AM, Stromboli1 said: I don't use Rotten Tomatoes at all, but it's funny to see the disparity between the critics' and audience's scores. Film critics tend to severely overanalyze movies and write from the pov of the pretentious, leftwing snob in their reviews. If they weren't a pretentious, leftwing snob then they wouldn't have gotten their jobs with liberal publications in the first place. The general audience works more on emotions. IMDB ranking reflects the audience's tastes too- where films like "The Dark Knight" are among the highest ranked films ever. 16 hours ago, CandleVixen said: I mis identified the House- I always confuse the two names of the houses. And I passed civics and government classes! 😅 If it wasn't for the Senate, federal policies would be far more leftwing and at the level of european states. The Civil Rights Act would have been passed several decades before it historically did. The great work of investigative journalism "Master of the Senate" gives a template on how it is done- everything comes down to making many successful, rather personalized deals with Republican Senators in order to get them to withdraw support for the Right wing. So somehow the future of these Senators and their constituents have be put on the line or benefits be exchanged to get them to do this. So the backroom politics has to line up.
December 20, 20195 yr 2 hours ago, Cult Icon said: Film critics tend to severely overanalyze movies and write from the pov of the pretentious, leftwing snob in their reviews. If they weren't a pretentious, leftwing snob then they wouldn't have gotten their jobs with liberal publications in the first place. The general audience works more on emotions. IMDB ranking reflects the audience's tastes too- where films like "The Dark Knight" are among the highest ranked films ever. If they were more genuine and more people would give a crap about critic reviews. There is a reason that more and more independent creators on YouTube are getting more popular and credible than media critics. Now YouTube is creating and enforcing rules to get those independent creators kicked of their platform in favor of the media.
December 20, 20195 yr 41 minutes ago, Stromboli1 said: If they were more genuine and more people would give a crap about critic reviews. There is a reason that more and more independent creators on YouTube are getting more popular and credible than media critics. Now YouTube is creating and enforcing rules to get those independent creators kicked of their platform in favor of the media. As someone who used to read a lot of reviews I would say that the mainstream critics POV is valid but of course differs from that of the average filmgoer who doesn't have that particular mindset. While having their own biases they have however, introduced me to a lot of analytical techniques and film genres, and film history. The POV of the common film watcher is more of someone who can't see the inner machinery of the film so is more open to be moved along by it. In sum, user reviews are a better measurement of short-term sense impressions. Film reviewers write their reviews with a longer-term approach (enduring meaning and cultural significance) although not always. I would never watch a review by an "independent content creator" unless these individuals showed a pov that demonstrated expertise. A person of no superior expertise is not worth listening to, except when they are a youtube beauty (put the mute on).
December 20, 20195 yr Idiocracy is the new system that governs Woke activists... and the neuronal liquefaction process is speeding up apparently. What in the actual f** is wrong with this world? This is mess. Spoiler This is child abuse. Plain and simple.
December 20, 20195 yr The judicial system in the UK is ridiculous... and totalitarian. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50858919 Science, rationality and diversity of thought have lost another battle against the Woke idiocracy, but it's "so progresssssive"
December 20, 20195 yr 5 hours ago, Cult Icon said: As someone who used to read a lot of reviews I would say that the mainstream critics POV is valid but of course differs from that of the average filmgoer who doesn't have that particular mindset. While having their own biases they have however, introduced me to a lot of analytical techniques and film genres, and film history. The POV of the common film watcher is more of someone who can't see the inner machinery of the film so is more open to be moved along by it. In sum, user reviews are a better measurement of short-term sense impressions. Film reviewers write their reviews with a longer-term approach although not always. I would never watch a review by an "independent content creator" unless these individuals showed a pov that demonstrated expertise. A person of no superior expertise is not worth listening to, except when they are a youtube beauty (put the mute on). I can see that with the old guard of film critics, but the newer generation of film critics hell no.
December 21, 20195 yr 1 hour ago, Stromboli1 said: I can see that with the old guard of film critics, but the newer generation of film critics hell no. do you read film reviews? the purpose of film reviews is also in entertainment in reading the review itself with some educational aspects. TBH It seems like I am responding to the anti-SJW right wing zeitgeist here and not your own actual views..
December 21, 20195 yr On 12/5/2019 at 10:22 PM, Enrico_sw said: I see they've included Batwoman in the criticism? I agree that the adaptation on the CW is not that great, but the character itself is old and not something that "SJWs" or any other leftist boogie men came up with. The original Batwoman dates back to the 1950s. The version they are using for the show dates back to 2006.
December 21, 20195 yr Rise of the Skywalker is garbage but it's garbage because Disney chose to listen to random dudes on the internet. No great art has ever been created by committee. Certainly not if the committee members are keyboard warriors. I thought none of the Disney Star Wars films were any good but this last one is bad specifically because the screenplay reads like it was created specifically to cater to the The Last Jedi backlash.
December 21, 20195 yr 5 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said: I see they've included Batwoman in the criticism? I agree that the adaptation on the CW is not that great, but the character itself is old and not something that "SJWs" or any other leftist boogie men came up with. The original Batwoman dates back to the 1950s. The version they are using for the show dates back to 2006. Have you listened to her video? She's criticising the studios' choice to sacrifice certain characters in order to promote others. She's not talking about the date on which the characters were created. She's just saying "it's ok if you want to bring your new or less known characters, just don't do it by sacrificing or demeaning beloved traditional characters". These new (or less traditional) characters are promoted by demeaning old ones and it pisses her (and many people) off. Also, IMHO, studios are brainless to bring politics in entertainment, because today's politics are divisive and divising the audience is the dumbest move
December 21, 20195 yr 4 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said: Rise of the Skywalker is garbage but it's garbage because Disney chose to listen to random dudes on the internet. Why do you mention "dudes"? Isn't that discrimination against the women that didn't like Disney's trilogy? There are a lot of them: check "That Star Wars girl", Darth Barbie or Viviane Fonseca. Anyway, your criticism is exactly what Disney and their shills say to defend the movie. That's just a desperate attempt to find scapegoats like the "scary right wing Bogeymen that will eat the hearts of the poor defenseless liberals" The other technique is to call the fans "Russians" or "bots". Why don't they take responsability and admit their failures? Also, Disney and JJ did not listen to criticisms from the fans, that's why the fandom menace hated the movie. They did listen to the fans with the "Mandalorian" and that's why it's popular.
December 21, 20195 yr 4 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said: Truer words... Scapegoats... Disney, their shills and the twitter activists they pandered to are children who can't face the reality of their failures If Disney had brains in their marketing department, they would see how crazy it was to bring divisive politics in entertainment.
December 22, 20195 yr It's funny because when you look at the fans who are the angriest against "Star War's gerbil trilogy" today, they are not the caricature that the Gerbil (and its media shills) depicts. A lot of them were still enthusiastic after TFA and even in the 1st weeks after TLJ's release. What really made them angry is how the Gerbil (and its media shills) insulted them in the wake of TLJ, calling them names (like ____ists or whatever word that ostracises different opinions in Newspeak). Once again, the Gerbil had a very bad marketing strategy
December 22, 20195 yr 7 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said: Rise of the Skywalker is garbage but it's garbage because Disney chose to listen to random dudes on the internet. No great art has ever been created by committee. Certainly not if the committee members are keyboard warriors. I thought none of the Disney Star Wars films were any good but this last one is bad specifically because the screenplay reads like it was created specifically to cater to the The Last Jedi backlash. The main issue with the Disney Trilogy was that they never planned an outline for all 3 movies, but did them with each director having creative control over each individual movie. Also we saw a public spat with JJ & Rian in the last 2 movies. Rian said fuck you to JJ's direction of the story from TFA and JJ said fuck you to Rian's direction of the story from TLJ. I have a feeling they both don't like each other. Don't get me wrong that fans were pissed after TLJ which damaged the brand which lead to Solo tanking, now TROS did further damage by alienating TLJ fans and more fans of Star Wars. TROS was for no one. Star Wars is in chaos.
December 22, 20195 yr Rian is 10 times the filmmaker than JJ, but Rian should've never directed a Disney sequel movie. He should've just got his own trilogy unrelated to the Skywalker Saga.
December 22, 20195 yr I think Rian is a bit tired of Disney by now. The success of Knives Out also means that he doesn't really need Disney to do whatever he wants for his next movie. Though apparently Kathleen Kennedy is still very keen to get him back on board for that trilogy.
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