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Coming from someone who refuses to believe that a critic could/would lie 🤭 If I didn’t know better, I’d think you were a movie critic

In my book, making up a fake critic to write fake reviews is worse, but whatever. You live in your world and I’ll live in mine.

The point was that critics have lied. Someone, maybe not you unequivocally denied that it has ever happened. 2 instances were shown. At no time did I say ALL critics lie. Nor did I ever say ALL critics were paid off. My contention is that it has happened. So if anyone is making a sweeping generalized statement, it’s you. Now how about you take your own advice, and DO BETTER

How would they involve a reputable critic when Sony made up a fake critic??????? You asked for instances. One was provided. You wanted another involving a major studio - you got that. Accept or deny. That’s your choice.

You’re right. Studios are honest. Critics are infallible. We are all just conspiracy theorists. Thanks for pointing out the error of our ways. 🙄🙄🙄

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/645297/david-manning-sony-fake-film-critic https://filmstories.co.uk/features/columbia-pictures-and-the-fake-movie-critic-of-the-early-2000s/

What Critical Drinker fans? I’ve personally never watched one of his videos. I think one person referenced him, and you’ve somehow equated that to you defending the Alamo against hoards of invaders. We’ve gone through this in multiple threads, and I still for the life of me cannot figure out why it bothers you so much when someone talks about having concerns - real or imaginary. Why do you feel the need to swoop in and rescue the rest of the forum from someone posting their concerns? They will eventually be proven correct or incorrect, so why not let it play out?

So, you think some of the publications you listed have no issues with distorting the truth, or outright lying and yet draw the line when it come to movie reviews???? Thats your stance? “We’ll sign off on umpteen fake stories from Jayson Blair, but by god our movie reviews better be real!!!” 🤭🤭🤭 Most likely movie reviews are such a non story, that no one cares enough to look into them. However, I will leave you with this excerpt from a leaked email from Entertainment Weekly…just to illustrate what their own employees think of their movie reviews…. “But people are eventually going to tune out if articles are poorly written. The out of context clickbait titles, posting out of context quotes… and film reviews that sound like paid-for PR pieces from studios completely make a joke of our magazine and entertainment journalism.”

Oh, so naive.

Yes, and where there’s smoke - there’s fire. Theres also the old adage that you are never caught the first time. But the point was to show that yes, it can and has happened. The second article was to just show how “sneaky” they can be with reviews - which I sort of alluded to before the link. I do think only a small portion of a movies audience actually decides based on reviews. I personally only read them after I’ve seen a movie, just to see what others think and to see if it aligns with my thought.

It’s just rumors being thrown about. But Superman in cuffs was not the big complaint. As I said in the FF thread - I don’t know if any are real or not, and will wait until the movie comes out to decide.

Movies can be political without being preachy. That’s what I want.

Only posting the first link because some people seem astounded to hear that their could ever be any type of suspicious reviews. https://www.ign.com/articles/rotten-tomatoes-under-fire-after-pr-firms-scheme-to-pay-critics-for-positive-reviews-uncovered Older article, but I think a lot more telling of how reviews work - and is still a disservice to readers https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/research/why-critics-dont-pan-blockbusters-least-not-right-away

For the record, I don’t believe that’s the political issue they are referring too.

While it would be cool, it would also open the door to a lot more requests and expectations for what could be done to/with the environment.

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They’ve had some none trash - I wouldn’t consider Werewolf by Night and the GOTG Christmas special trash Deadpool/Wolverine also wasn’t trash. So I’d probably put them around 80-85% trash over the past few years.

It’s always enjoyable when someone discovers a Diantane thread for the first time 🤭

Come on Diantane. Surely you haven’t run out of material already.

I put people on ignore and forget why, all the time. I usually unignore everyone every few months. The one who really need to be ignored will usually find a way to earn their spot back on my ignore list. As for the OPs idea - I think it would be a waste of time. Mainly because it’s something that players should easily be able to manage themselves. But who am I to decide what the devs want to waste their time on.

Because….DPS Tool! Wait a minute. How about the Devs ban DPS Tools instead???! 🤔🤔🤔

You are telling people to accept mediocrity based on the notion that things could always be worse. On the other end of the spectrum, I could say that if it doesn’t match their best work, it sucks. Most of the time, I don’t think people involved with the process set out to make a bad movie - and I don’t know if this one is bad - I’m arguing against your notion that people should “shut up and like it, because look at what came before” - I’m not arguing that this is a good/bad movie because I don’t know. I refuse to accept any type of mediocrity. If they want me to continue spending my hard earned money on what they release, they better entertain me.

It absolutely is not. In any way, shape or form. Telling someone they have to accept crap because it used to be so much worse, is an asinine argument to try and make. When it comes time for a raise at your job, would you accept being told “you used to make minimum wage, so be happy with these 2 extra pennies” ?? Would you smile and say, “gee, thanks boss. You’re the greatest!” For the record, I haven’t seen Thunderbolts yet, and have no opinion on whether it will be good or not.

To say “be happy with anything better than the absolute worst” is a sh1t argument.