I mean who really cares what rotten tomatoes thinks. Black panther was a snooze fest and it’s very highly rated on there I trust it for horror movies and that’s pretty much it. They always trash comedies which is the best genre so who gives a poo poo
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 19:25 |
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The reason it came up was a as simple as critics acting like some mediocre Netflix movies were apocalypticly bad, therefore it's not worth taking them into consideration, and some people took it upon themselves to act like we were propping up some massive anti Netflix conspiracy theory. I'm the exact same way though. I'm a big horror junkie, and there is so much literal trash in the genre that I find RT really useful for wading through the garbage. other than that I find critics practically useless. Reception is so hype based anymore it's impossible to get a read on a lot of things when trying to use RT.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 19:36 |
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A MIRACLE posted:I mean who really cares what rotten tomatoes thinks. Black panther was a snooze fest and it’s very highly rated on there Apparently Hollywood cares because people don't want to spend money on lovely movies and rotten tomatoes is the go-to website for most.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 20:02 |
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Yeah, like, I'm seeing the anti-Netflix bias less in the fact that the movies are getting reviewed negatively, and more in the fact that they're getting treated like they're entirely unworthy of consideration and among the actual worst movies of all time. Mute isn't, like, a fantastic movie, but some of the hate it's getting is just absurdly over-the-top; ditto Bright, which probably would have gotten a lot of "meh, it's fine" reviews in theaters, and on Netflix attracted absurd amounts of vitriol.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 20:15 |
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yeah, if bright would have been released in theaters, it would have got like a 40-50% rotten tomatoes score and not much fanfare. its weird that the initial critic reaction actually got it more notice and caused more dialogue.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 20:26 |
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Cloverfield Paradox would probably have been slammed even more if it was released in theaters though, imho. I know I walked away thinking “That was a decent time waster sure, but if I had seen this in a theater I would be loving PISSED.”
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 23:22 |
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AceOfFlames posted:Cloverfield Paradox would probably have been slammed even more if it was released in theaters though, imho. I know I walked away thinking “That was a decent time waster sure, but if I had seen this in a theater I would be loving PISSED.” I liked it better than I expected to, but I'm a sucker for quantum physics and parallel dimensions, but yeah it was decent as a Netflix original. It definitely felt shoehorned into the Cloverfield universe more than 10 Cloverfield Lane did. Of course, without the shoe horning its a pretty standard fare Sci Fi flick with no real shocks.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 00:09 |
I've already forgotten what Cloverfield Paradox was about, or who was in it
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 00:17 |
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A MIRACLE posted:I've already forgotten what Cloverfield Paradox was about, or who was in it I was definitely baffled when I read reviews referring to TCP’s “Big name cast”. I recognized NONE of those people.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 00:33 |
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I really, really didn't like The Meyerowitz Stories and don't understand why it has a positive RT score. This review of Mute, which I haven't seen, is exactly how I feel about The Meyerowitz Stories. Allyn posted:
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 00:35 |
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AceOfFlames posted:Cloverfield Paradox would probably have been slammed even more if it was released in theaters though, imho. I know I walked away thinking “That was a decent time waster sure, but if I had seen this in a theater I would be loving PISSED.” I feel like Bright had the opposite going on. It got absolutely ripped apart, so since it was on Metflix, people were like “oh, I have to see this”, but then when it was decent there was a bit of questioning what movie critics watched and if they were dragging it through the mud for no reason.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 00:35 |
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Miss Lonelyhearts posted:I really, really didn't like The Meyerowitz Stories and don't understand why it has a positive RT score. I usually like Noah Baumbach’s movies, but I didn’t like The Meyerowitz Stories at all.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 01:14 |
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AceOfFlames posted:I was definitely baffled when I read reviews referring to TCP’s “Big name cast”. I recognized NONE of those people. Not even Ziyi Zhang? She was in a lot of those Crouching Tiger style movies, including Crouching Tiger itself
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 01:16 |
Chris O Dowd should be in more stuffq
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 01:16 |
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thatst he movie where adam sandler was a shoe cobbler that looked kinda nice for 10 minutes until he discovered his dads magical cobbler machine that can transform adam sandler into the person that ownes the shoes? e: no wait thats the cobbler
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 01:18 |
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AceOfFlames posted:I was definitely baffled when I read reviews referring to TCP’s “Big name cast”. I recognized NONE of those people. one of norways biggest actors was in that movie and its usually pretty normal that norwegian media goes wild when a norwegian actor is in a "american" movie, not a single peep about the movie here
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 01:21 |
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I recognized O’Dowd, Oyelowo, Brühl, and the German guy from The Martian, but I’m not sure I’d call the cast well known. Brühl is probably the best well-known among Americans for Inglorious Basterds and Civil War, followed by Oyelowo for Selma.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 01:28 |
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this guy? thats the norwegian actor. it was big news when he was in that the rock is hercules movie and the martian. this time i didnt even know the movie was coming out before it did
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 01:37 |
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datajugend posted:this guy? thats the norwegian actor. it was big news when he was in that the rock is hercules movie and the martian. this time i didnt even know the movie was coming out before it did I phrased it poorly. I meant I recognized him from his role as the German astronaut in The Martian.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 01:59 |
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Recognized him from the glorious Headhunters
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 02:09 |
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nate fisher posted:I usually like Noah Baumbach’s movies, but I didn’t like The Meyerowitz Stories at all. Maybe because Greta Gerwig didn’t co-write, since she was busy doing Ladybird.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 02:31 |
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Cocoa Ninja posted:Maybe because Greta Gerwig didn’t co-write, since she was busy doing Ladybird. Is it just me or does she have the most old lady name ever? Also, totally didn’t see Ladybird since I was dead certain it was a biopic about LBJs wife.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 02:36 |
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Thanks everyone who recommended "As Above, So Below". Never heard of it before and ended up loving it.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 02:39 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Also, totally didn’t see Ladybird since I was dead certain it was a biopic about LBJs wife. It's a fantastic movie, and I would not be upset if it won Best Picture. Still rooting for Call Me By Your Name though.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 03:06 |
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Nihonniboku posted:It's a fantastic movie, and I would not be upset if it won Best Picture. I don’t doubt it’s fantastic, but me and a bunch of people skipped it because the name made us expect it was about something else entirely.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 03:13 |
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is that a loving Moon reference with Sam Bell at the start of Mute.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 03:28 |
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Doorknob Slobber posted:is that a loving Moon reference with Sam Bell at the start of Mute. No not at all.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 04:01 |
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Doorknob Slobber posted:is that a loving Moon reference with Sam Bell at the start of Mute. ...is that a joke post?
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 04:16 |
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A MIRACLE posted:I trust it for horror movies and that’s pretty much it. It's all over the place with horror movies.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 04:16 |
Is it? I feel like recently the ones I've seen in theatres have matched up really well. Oh well i'm just going to watch random poo poo now based on nothing I guess
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 04:43 |
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Doorknob Slobber posted:is that a loving Moon reference with Sam Bell at the start of Mute. they're set in the same universe, that "reference" is... more of an epilogue, really e: i feel like this is legit something people might not be aware of, it's not just a sneaky "they're both Duncan Jones movies" joke, that's literally what the ending of Moon leads to
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 04:52 |
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A MIRACLE posted:Is it? I feel like recently the ones I've seen in theatres have matched up really well. Oh well i'm just going to watch random poo poo now based on nothing I guess If only there was a really good thread on a gay dead internet forum about the very topic of horror movies...
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 05:30 |
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Aside from The Ritual, what's good for horror on netflix? Just watched They Come At Night
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 06:00 |
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old.flv posted:Aside from The Ritual, what's good for horror on netflix? Just watched They Come At Night It Follows
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 06:06 |
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old.flv posted:Aside from The Ritual, what's good for horror on netflix? Just watched They Come At Night Top tier: It Follows Under the Shadow The Babadook Pretty good: Hush Gerald's Game The Conjuring Starry Eyes The Invitation Not that scary but horror-adjacent: Troll Hunter Tucker and Dale vs Evil There's probably more, I just grabbed the first ten I saw.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 06:14 |
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I hated Mute, it was painfully unfunny, way too long, and the dialog was execrable. What was clearly intended to be a lurid and provocative vision of future sex came off as desperately edgy instead (apart from the incest which was just nasty stuff), and the sci-fi elements were boringly generic. As for the negative Netflix reviews, I also thought The Cloverfield Paradox was truly awful and Bright was awful whenever Orc Cop was offscreen so my views don't seem to be jibing with this thread much these days.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 06:24 |
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Filthy Hans posted:What was clearly intended to be a lurid and provocative vision of future sex came off as desperately edgy instead ...what? There's a character who's a gay prostitute (which is shown as seemingly legal and basically accepted) and another character who's at least implied to be a trans woman. Those aren't really lurid and provocative future things, and that's about the craziest the sex got as far as I noticed (aside from, y'know, the elephant in the living room).
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 06:28 |
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Finally got to The Ritual. Glad I knew nothing going in, and loved the hell out of it.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 06:39 |
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old.flv posted:Aside from The Ritual, what's good for horror on netflix? Just watched They Come At Night The Eyes of My Mother and Raw are mandatory watching.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 07:17 |
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I didn't like the babadook, it just didnt do it for me. Troll hunter and Tucker and Dale vs evil are the poo poo though.
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