OT: TV and Movies (with spoilers)

Post #301 » by **ReasonablySober** » Thu May 23, 2019 10:40 pm

Well well well.

Rotten Tomatoes is introducing a new metric called Verified Score that will display before Audience Score. Only users who purchased tickets through Fandango will be allowed to score a movie. This should clean out much of the trolls who review bomb movies over race, politics, or sexism. It'll be the audience score people care about.

Aaron It Out · Post #302 » by **Aaron It Out** » Thu May 23, 2019 11:27 pm

ReasonablySober wrote:Well well well.

Rotten Tomatoes is introducing a new metric called Verified Score that will display before Audience Score. Only users who purchased tickets through Fandango will be allowed to score a movie. This should clean out much of the trolls who review bomb movies over race, politics, or sexism. It'll be the audience score people care about.

Also cleans out anyone who doesn't buy movies on **** Fandango. You think trolls won't pay a little money to troll?

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Licensed to Il · Post #303 » by **Licensed to Il** » Thu May 23, 2019 11:31 pm

ReasonablySober wrote:Well well well.

Rotten Tomatoes is introducing a new metric called Verified Score that will display before Audience Score. Only users who purchased tickets through Fandango will be allowed to score a movie. This should clean out much of the trolls who review bomb movies over race, politics, or sexism. It'll be the audience score people care about.

So buying a ticket on Fandango magically cures people of racism, sexism, and political bias?

I actually get your point, and this new feature will diminish mass flash mob type conspiracy activity. But you are surely overstating its power to weed out disingenuous reviews.

Ayt · Post #304 » by **Ayt** » Thu May 23, 2019 11:49 pm

humanrefutation wrote:This is the kind of stuff I missed from GOT - really great character development moments:

Watch on YouTube

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I decided to rewatch the first 4 seasons after basically being a one and done viewer throughout the series. I always had it in my mind to go back and rewatch it all after it was over. The first season was incredible even without a massive budget and with countless actors who were clearly green. The things that really stuck out were the dialogue and the pace of every episode. Every scene mattered and there was constant world building and character building in every scene.

How about the Tywin Lannister introductory scene? Nothing even comes close to matching this in the final several seasons. Granted, this is hard to match. Still, this is top notch television. The first several seasons were filled with incredible scenes like this.

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Post #305 » by **ReasonablySober** » Fri May 24, 2019 12:28 am

Aaron It Out wrote:
ReasonablySober wrote:Well well well.

Rotten Tomatoes is introducing a new metric called Verified Score that will display before Audience Score. Only users who purchased tickets through Fandango will be allowed to score a movie. This should clean out much of the trolls who review bomb movies over race, politics, or sexism. It'll be the audience score people care about.

Also cleans out anyone who doesn't buy movies on **** Fandango. You think trolls won't pay a little money to troll?

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I think it's a good trade-off. If the dipsh*t trolls want to fork over their money to give a movie one star, screw it. Let them. At least this weeds out the dickheads who never had any intention to see a movie in the first place.

HurricaneKid · Post #306 » by **HurricaneKid** » Fri May 24, 2019 6:15 am

ReasonablySober wrote:Well well well.

Rotten Tomatoes is introducing a new metric called Verified Score that will display before Audience Score. Only users who purchased tickets through Fandango will be allowed to score a movie. This should clean out much of the trolls who review bomb movies over race, politics, or sexism. It'll be the audience score people care about.

If you care about the audience score you are doing it all wrong anyways.

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Post #307 » by **ReasonablySober** » Fri May 24, 2019 1:00 pm

HurricaneKid wrote:
ReasonablySober wrote:Well well well.

Rotten Tomatoes is introducing a new metric called Verified Score that will display before Audience Score. Only users who purchased tickets through Fandango will be allowed to score a movie. This should clean out much of the trolls who review bomb movies over race, politics, or sexism. It'll be the audience score people care about.
If you care about the audience score you are doing it all wrong anyways.

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I certainly never have. I'm just LOL'ing at the people here who hold up Audience Score as the true measure of whether a film is good or not. Rotten Tomatoes themselves just admitted it was a **** up useless measure as it was in the past.

buckboy · Post #308 » by **buckboy** » Fri May 24, 2019 1:02 pm

The wider the gap between critic and audience score, the better the movie.

Post #309 » by **MickeyDavis** » Fri May 24, 2019 10:27 pm

The Deadwood movie (a long time coming) finally premiers a week from tonight.

StickeeFingaz · Post #310 » by **StickeeFingaz** » Fri May 24, 2019 11:48 pm

Pretty excited about the Deadwood movie, I should rewatch the series before then. I fell in love with the show when I discovered it but the abrupt ending was weird.

Never started Black Mirror before and watched the first episode the other night, didn’t think it was great. But I think I heard the first episode was one of the worst?

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Finn · Post #311 » by **Finn** » Sat May 25, 2019 12:00 am

I'm watching Deadwood now. It's crazy fun, at least to me (Olyphant is so good). Didn't know anything about a movie. Excellent news.

Post #312 » by **ReasonablySober** » Sat May 25, 2019 12:14 am

New Netflix movie The Perfection is great. Horror/thriller. Don't read anything about it. Not even the trailer. Just check it out.

Bucksfan28 · Post #313 » by **Bucksfan28** » Sat May 25, 2019 1:05 am

StickeeFingaz wrote:
Never started Black Mirror before and watched the first episode the other night, didn’t think it was great. But I think I heard the first episode was one of the worst?

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It's just not a good indicator of what the show becomes/is. I watched them out of order and that one always felt out of place.

The next two eps in S1 are typically much better received. Ep 3 is a personal favorite.

Mags FTW · Post #314 » by **Mags FTW** » Sat May 25, 2019 1:52 am

buckboy wrote:The wider the gap between critic and audience score, the better the movie.

I think you can get a pretty good read on a movie by looking at a combination of 3 things:
Audience Reviews
Critic Reviews
Box Office ROI

Good Audience, Good Critic, Poor Box Office=A good movie that was poorly marketed or handled by the studio, or just a smaller film.

Good Audience, Poor Critic, Good Box Office=Mindless Popcorn Movie with 'Splosions or geared towards a specific audience.

Good in all 3=Just a great movie with wide appeal

Bad in all 3=Bomb

Poor Audience, Good Critic, Poor Box Office=The most controversial of the outcomes. Could be the result of paid off critics. Might be "too smart" for general audiences. Could be that it did not meet the expectations of fans of popular earlier films or source material. Good box office would be a highly anticipated film that people initially saw opening weekend but got bad word of mouth.

hege53190 · Post #315 » by **hege53190** » Sat May 25, 2019 2:46 am

buckboy wrote:The wider the gap between critic and audience score, the better the movie.

The Last Jedi, Hulk, Antz, King Kong, The War of the Worlds and SpyKids have some of the biggest gaps of all-time. Critics loved those movies. Audiences hated them.

Who is right?

For some reason I don't think any of those were to smart for general audiences.

buckboy · Post #316 » by **buckboy** » Sat May 25, 2019 3:45 am

hege53190 wrote:
buckboy wrote:The wider the gap between critic and audience score, the better the movie.

The Last Jedi, Hulk, Antz, King Kong, The War of the Worlds and SpyKids have some of the biggest gaps of all-time. Critics loved those movies. Audiences hated them.

Who is right?

For some reason I don't think any of those were to smart for general audiences.

Never saw it, like, like, like, like, never saw it.

These are the criteria I would expect to fit my needs.

emunney · Post #317 » by **emunney** » Sat May 25, 2019 3:59 am

Aaron It Out wrote:
ReasonablySober wrote:Well well well.

Rotten Tomatoes is introducing a new metric called Verified Score that will display before Audience Score. Only users who purchased tickets through Fandango will be allowed to score a movie. This should clean out much of the trolls who review bomb movies over race, politics, or sexism. It'll be the audience score people care about.

Also cleans out anyone who doesn't buy movies on **** Fandango. You think trolls won't pay a little money to troll?

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I don't think thousands of trolls will buy 100s of tickets each to troll.

Iheartfootball · Post #318 » by **Iheartfootball** » Sat May 25, 2019 4:06 am

Bucksfan28 wrote:
StickeeFingaz wrote:
Never started Black Mirror before and watched the first episode the other night, didn’t think it was great. But I think I heard the first episode was one of the worst?

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It's just not a good indicator of what the show becomes/is. I watched them out of order and that one always felt out of place.

The next two eps in S1 are typically much better received. Ep 3 is a personal favorite.

Was just thinking about episode three this week. That one still sticks with me. It’s incredible.

worthlessBucks · Post #319 » by **worthlessBucks** » Sat May 25, 2019 4:40 am

emunney wrote:I don't think thousands of trolls will buy 100s of tickets each to troll.

ejn1214 · Post #320 » by **ejn1214** » Sat May 25, 2019 5:06 am

Has anyone watch the Greasy Strangler, available on prime? I think it's amazing, but it will also work as a great house clearing technique. If you want others to leave or think you are a perverted freak, put this on. Also works great as a gift to the inlaws. Having a live fantasy draft? Put this on in the background. But honestly, if you like weird, you have to give this a try but I would not watch it with your significant other or maybe anyone else unless you know them well. I believe it is truly a new kind of weird that has never been done.