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Disclaimer: On a fundamental level, I don't like opinions expressed as numerical values. If something is presented with a percentage, my brain immediately processes it as a score. I'm referring to the percentage that comes up when you google a movie. That's the percentage of critics that gave the movie a positive review. Baby Driver currently sits at 95%. One of the Baby Driver trailers I saw before the movie came out boasted a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. My problem is with how ubiquitous RT scores have become, and how that effects perceptions/expectations of a movie before you see it. My girlfriend and I wanted to go see Baywatch because we love seeing movies. We see as many movies as possible in theaters. We knew there was a strong chance that Baywatch was gonna be hot garbage, but the experience of going and finding out for ourselves is incredibly valuable. We didn't end up seeing Baywatch because Fandango started putting rotten tomatoes scores above movie times and it was confirmed for us as terrible. Having a movie pre-maturely judged for you takes a lot of the fun out of what should be a subjective experience. Also, seeing a movie you hate can still yield really fun experiences. We both hated Manchester by the Sea but we quote a certain part of it near daily (MY HAHT IS BROKEN). You can say don't put stock in Rotten Tomatoes scores, but it's not that simple. Once you've seen the percentage you can't discount it because Rotten Tomatoes IS a valuable tool. It helps movie goers decide what to spend their hard-earned cash on, it immediately gives you a feel for the landscape of reception for a movie. But any sort of score will affect whether or not I watch something. Back when Netflix had reviews out of 5 stars I couldn't help but put stock into them when I'd never heard of the movie. There's such an immense amount of content out there and review scores affect how we choose what we do. I think this has a detrimental effect on film criticism. People are much more likely to go by the quick and easy numbers than to read criticism and find critics they like. I disagree with so many of my favorite film critics, but I still find value in their opinions. Obviously most people aren't capital L fiLm dooshes like me but the effect on cinema as a medium is skewing it more towards $$$$$$ rather than art. It started becoming insidious to me this year when I noticed movies basically gaming the RT system so they could advertise their movies as having near perfect RT percentages. I'm not sure exactly how this is done, but the conspiracy theorist in me suspects that it's by targeting certain critics while the film is still in limited release. Get Out still sits at 99%, despite being a movie that takes a lot from The Invitation (which was playing in festivals while Jordan Peele was writing it) and has a very incomplete script. When you go into a movie that everyone is proclaiming as great it's so easy to buy into the hype. The first time I saw Get Out I loved it. The second time I saw it, I thought "meh." The political aspect of Get Out played no small part in its popularity. Any other political climate, then there's no way Jordan Peele's debut makes 100 mil. (I don't mind that Get Out was so popular. I love Peele and am super excited about his future as a director. I do mind that people are still mentioning it as one of the top movies of 2017 when it's not even remotely in the conversation. /opinion qwk) Baby Driver is a different beast. If you go through and read snippets of the critic reviews, so many of the positive reviews knock the movie for the script/plot being weak. But because Baby Driver is a charming film and Edgar Wright is a talented filmmaker, it's getting away with being a very shallow film. I'm working on a little something related to Baby Driver right now that fleshes out my thoughts on the movie. I'm not saying you're wrong if you loved Baby Driver. Pretty much everyone in my family loves it, but the RT effect trickles down to the criticism community in a really not-good way. Another disclaimer: I think that if something comes up as part of google's website when you search something (as in not a link), it is immediately legitimized.

Oh man I am so anti-rotten tomatoes. It has come to mean absolutely nothing. Get Out and Baby Driver both with near perfect scores? Chyeah. Every time I see a trailer that boasts rotten tomatoes scores I wince.

Before McDavid they were the laughingstock of the league for about 10 years straight.

It struck me at the core of my soul. When I was in high school I spent the majority of my time in the music suite. During my senior year I took a piano class and the teacher let me go in the auditorium by myself and use the grand piano. Every day I had 80 minutes alone with a beautiful instrument. Alone with my sounds bouncing around a giant, dark auditorium. The same auditorium I had slept in during grueling marching band camps. The same auditorium I'd spent countless painful hours rehearsing with the pit band for musicals. The place where our concerts were when I used to play timpani. My senior year was a weird time for me. My girlfriend at the time had left for college and I was checked out from the word go. I felt so isolated from everyone else (bc i'm artsy and edgy and obvi nobody else felt that way). The Gallows tapped into all of that. The lighting in the auditorium is the most oppressive atmosphere I've ever felt in a film. The mix between tasteful cinematography and found footage was gorgeous, justified by the camera-character being a closet drama lover. The pacing and conceits of the horror drama were justified by the entire plot being executed by an insufferable drama kid and an insufferable drama ghost. That one pointy haired kid who's an awful actor is justified by him also being an awful actor in the play in universe. And also high school guys are just kinda dull and listless anyways. That's reality. It's the finest piece of budget filmmaking I've ever seen.

Not only do I LOVE it, I am writing a screenplay inspired by it.

I cried like 5 times last re-watch. At least.

Oh my god I think about La La Land all the time. Maybe I'll get a tattoo of the blue neon arrow sign at the front of Seb's club...

I've got too many REAL fiLms on my list to watch something that's simply "fun" /getonmylevel

To quote one of my favorite tweets of all time: "Michael Bay might be the only person on Earth who doesn't get the appeal of your car being a secret alien robot that's also your friend." -Lindsay Ellis

All I know about the movie is that last scene. Sooooo yeah not gonna watch it.

Hahaha

Every character not played by Michael Fassbender was miscast.

It's not unreasonable of WildCard to actually want to see some real fighting though. A lot of screentime has already been burned and wasted in eps 1 and 2. And ep 3, while packed with stuff, still grinded to a halt for Cersei's scene with ellaria and tyene. Stop harrassing somebody because they want to have fun.

You'd think they'd spend somma that unlimited budget on some lights or maybe a new blue filter for the north. Or maybe somebody to actually block the actors. And yeah, we get one competent battle per season. But competent is as far as I'd go.

He lives in California.

Oh my god

They ain't got the budget, time, nor craft to make Helm's Deep. We saw last week what their attempt at shooting fight scenes looks like.

Stuff finally happened! It was a broken incoherent mess and I loved it.

I'm not sure. How much value does a 1 year contract have? If we can re-sign Kane then I think he's more valuable than Okposo. Ah, but paycheck is the value we're looking at, not contract length.

DJs that prioritize pop over funk are all going to hell

To Trump's Saruman you non-nerd

Oh yeah, you poor American Christian. You've suffered so much genocide. Get real.

It's a hockey tournament with the best players in the world. It's a study on chemistry and line matching. It's the NHLers we know in a completely different context. It's the only time I get to root for Phil Kessel. It's cool, I love it.

Stop comparing yourself to people that actually get discriminated against.

Drunk.