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[cashregister9]

Say this every time it comes up, but who actually listens to/trusts rotten tomatoes.

Silly Snake, remember the internet Rotten Tomatoes bad review average code

"If I want a movie to flop then Rotten Tomatoes is accurate, If I want a movie to succeed, then they are not"

 

[TheMightyP]

Think this dude will be there opening day?

 

[Z25]

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Edit: it has now hit me that those annoying nerds have won. It's so Joever

How? I saw nothing but high praise reviews all over my timeline last night. I expected at least an 80

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Time to pull out Old Reliable

 

[Z25]

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Edit: it has now hit me that those annoying nerds have won. It's so Joever

Decided to go read some of these:

-Sees this

-Sees several reviews say it’s not funny.

-People genuinely complaining about “pandering” and a more serious tone.

Yeah ok critics, and I’m not even super hyped for this. But this just don’t add up.

 

[Noipoi]

Just like the **** you like, god damn. It’s not so hard.

 

[TheMightyP]

Just like the **** you like, god damn. It’s not so hard.

No, I must hate

 

[Noipoi]

No, I must hate

It’s okay to hate the **** you hate too. As long as you don’t give the people who do like it ****.

I just get tired of this apparent need to have everyone online to agree with you one way or the other. And I’m not innocent of this either, I’ll admit. Just sayin.

 

[TheMightyP]

It’s okay to hate the ** you hate too. As long as you don’t give the people who do like it **.

I just get tired of this apparent need to have everyone online to agree with you one way or the other. And I’m not innocent of this either, I’ll admit. Just sayin.

Nah I agree, I really only posted the RT score to spark discussion since MCU is a big thing around here. I myself have no strong feelings one way or the other to this film (they did bad on marketing it).

 

[cashregister9]

Decided to go read some of these:
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-Sees this

-Sees several reviews say it’s not funny.

-People genuinely complaining about “pandering” and a more serious tone.

Yeah ok critics, and I’m not even super hyped for this. But this just don’t add up.

Reading these reviews also made me realize a few things about Rotten Tomatoes
-Every review is graded on their own unique score but still runs on the Fresh and Rotten system
-A C- is apparently rotten

I don't even plan on seeing this movie in theatres, I just want Bigots to lose.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

I don't care about the movie but I am exhausted about movies led by women and PoC getting judged significantly harder. MCU had no women solo movies for so long cause "Well Catwoman and Elektra flopped so clearly women are not profittable" despite those movies being dog**** or Static Shock getting canned cause of bad toy sales when they never made a ****ing toy line to begin with. Never got over that, loved Static Shock as a kid

 

[TheMightyP]

Reading these reviews also made me realize a few things about Rotten Tomatoes
-Every review is graded on their own unique score but still runs on the Fresh and Rotten system
-A C- is apparently rotten

I don't even plan on seeing this movie in theatres, I just want Bigots to lose.

I think they don't base it off on the review grade but rather the wording they use to describe their experience. Which is why you get mismatches.

also C- would be failing by my parents standards so maybe they're RT is ran by yhem

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Nah I agree, I really only posted the RT score to spark discussion since MCU is a big thing around here. I myself have no strong feelings one way or the other to this film (they did bad on marketing it).

Hey, maybe consistent low critical scores will convince the higher ups to cancel/reboot the mcu.

 

[Hex D. Jess]

Hey, maybe consistent low critical scores will convince the higher ups to cancel/reboot the mcu.

That's not going to happen as long as they keep making money

 

[Noipoi]

Hey, maybe consistent low critical scores will convince the higher ups to cancel/reboot the mcu.

Not a chance in hell. Only if they stopped making money all together.

But they’re definitely noticing that the current pace they’re going at won’t work, not to mention trouble with certain actors and things like that. So I hope they’ll at least take a couple years off to try and reorient themselves.

 

[Pink Yoshi]

Searches it on YT
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So am I safe? Are the roaches gonna defend me?

Just feed them well and play them a lot of music, and you should be good.

After all, in the words of the girl on my avatar, cockroaches "have feelings, you know?"

 

[TheMightyP]

Hey, maybe consistent low critical scores will convince the higher ups to cancel/reboot the mcu.

Lol

I don't care about the movie but I am exhausted about movies led by women and PoC getting judged significantly harder. MCU had no women solo movies for so long cause "Well Catwoman and Elektra flopped so clearly women are not profittable" despite those movies being dog**** or Static Shock getting canned cause of bad toy sales when they never made a ****ing toy line to begin with. Never got over that, loved Static Shock as a kid

Tbh, they set the movie up to fail, the marketing was dogwater (granted there was the strike) and the trailers SUCKED. They also failed to do anything to push back on the Brie Larson smear campaign and just kinda fed into them.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

I mean. It's based on the US grading system, no wonder it's weird +	97-100
A	93-96
A –	90-92
B +	87-89
B	83-86
C +	80-82
C	77-79
C	73-76
C –	70-72
D +	67-69
D	63-6
D –	60-62
F	less than 60

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Not a chance in hell. Only if they stopped making money all together.

But they’re definitely noticing that the current pace they’re going at won’t work, not to mention trouble with certain actors and things like that. So I hope they’ll at least take a couple years off to try and reorient themselves.

Honestly I liked the idea of Kang. I liked what they were doing with him and he feels like a nice step up after Thanos. The only thing I ever saw with him in it was Quantomania, which briefly reinvigorated my interest in the MCU, but that flame died down super quick. So now I'm back to being apathetic.

Honestly I really wish DC was able to get a coherent Cinematic Universe together that people liked AND made money without all these clashing directors and getting rebooted twelve times without even resetting the continuity. And I'm not excited for James Gunn's direction of it because he doesn't seem to be making the right moves. There's too much corporate politics involved.

Really, both companies just need to take their cinematic universes, reset them to square 1, and start over with a lot more organization. And I don't mean strictness either. A good leader can quickly course correct in the event of a freak accident without derailing the overall goal you're setting sail towards. And I think that kind of mentality is needed. They need someone above the directors. A head of all heads. But not someone who'd be individually directing any of the movies the way James Gunn and such do. Like... a conductor.

 

[Z25]

Meanwhile Loki knows peak is coming:

#Loki Season 2 🤝 #TheMarvels
Thursday Night

Drop everything and don’t miss what happens next. pic.twitter.com/WdXhYTxNzy

— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) November 8, 2023

I’m still betting OB is Kang or another villain.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Btw it's been a year since Sonic Frontiers came out

I'm still shocked it did as well as it did and was as fun as it was, especially the DLC stages

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Btw it's been a year since Sonic Frontiers came out
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I'm still shocked it did as well as it did and was as fun as it was, especially the DLC stages

It just occurred to me how close Frontiers was to Superstars.. and then how close Mania was to Forces... is that gonna be a thing?

 

[TMNTSSB4]

Ngl at this point I don’t really bother with opinions about the MCU when it comes to reviewing each project separately. The overall issues had that the likes of Variety and Forbes discussed is one thing sure, and it’s understandable to feel worn out by the amount of content dropping, but the review bombing I ain’t gonna care for.

I especially realized to not take it seriously after the whole “MCU is over only to quickly turn into a MCU is back then back to over and return to back” thing that happened within a week due to the production discussion + Loki and The Marvels + Echo and Blade being mature rated.

Meanwhile Loki knows peak is coming:

#Loki Season 2 🤝 #TheMarvels
Thursday Night

Drop everything and don’t miss what happens next. pic.twitter.com/WdXhYTxNzy

— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) November 8, 2023

I’m still betting OB is Kang or another villain.

it apparently might be an alternate Loki being the villain of the season, similar to the Loki Agent of Asgard comic series. This is assumed based on some concept art that got dropped specifically about the current season.. I would be down for it if legit

Lol

Tbh, they set the movie up to fail, the marketing was dogwater (granted there was the strike) and the trailers SUCKED. They also failed to do anything to push back on the Brie Larson smear campaign and just kinda fed into them.

The strike being in the way aside, the trailers only needed to show an abusive amount of Kamala (aka the star of the show based on reviews). That and the Brie Larson stuff is kinda pathetic. Whether it’s insecure men or any other sort of dummies, it feels both weird and goofy as hell to hate a woman that had valid points made.

that and turning against a fellow Nintendo gamer is crazy

 

[Noipoi]

Btw it's been a year since Sonic Frontiers came out
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I'm still shocked it did as well as it did and was as fun as it was, especially the DLC stages

Glad Frontiers did well, Sonic needs a win every now and then.

But-

I hope the moody, melancholy tone doesn’t stick. I like my Sonic games colorful, obnoxious, and and a little edgy


And all the cartoon characters having low-key, gloomy voices just sounds weird.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Glad Frontiers did well, Sonic needs a win every now and then.

But-

I hope the moody, melancholy tone doesn’t stick. I like my Sonic games colorful, obnoxious, and and a little edgy


And all the cartoon characters having low-key, gloomy voices just sounds weird.

I mean, the edge is there but the tone's likely not staying as they wanted an extinct people to be central to the plot with mystery being a big focus. I can't wait to see an open zone city layout with people to see and buildings to parkour on

 

[Schnee117]

Tbh, they set the movie up to fail, the marketing was dogwater (granted there was the strike) and the trailers SUCKED. They also failed to do anything to push back on the Brie Larson smear campaign and just kinda fed into them.

The strike really ****ed it up because the best thing about the movie is the main trio and yeah they couldn't do **** to market that aspect, pay everyone involved in your movies properly without ****ing them over you greedy ****s.

And it was certainly a choice to have the final trailer use more footage of Cap, Stark and Thanos than Kamala who is actually in the ****ing movie.

 

[TMNTSSB4]

Shrek 5 got a leaked year release of 2025 thanks to LinkedIn

 

[Pink Yoshi]

So there's this guy I follow on YouTube who does pop music reviews, and in his Community tab he does polls ranking all the hit songs that ranked at a certain number on year end lists (like the year-end #1s, #2s, #3s, etc...)

I found out that he will next be polling the year-end #28 songs. And what's a song that falls under that category? None other than "I Love It" by Icona Pop, one of my favorite songs of all time.

So if some of y'all who have YouTube accounts followed Diamond Axe Studios Music on YouTube and vote for "I Love It" when it shows up on his upcoming polls, that'd be just dandy.

unless you don't want to, i'm not your boss lol

 

[cashregister9]

The strike really *ed it up because the best thing about the movie is the main trio and yeah they couldn't do * to market that aspect, pay everyone involved in your movies properly without ****ing them over you greedy ****s.

And it was certainly a choice to have the final trailer use more footage of Cap, Stark and Thanos than Kamala who is actually in the ****ing movie.

Between that and the scattered marketing for Wish, I can see why some people believe that they are deliberately tanking these movies to blame the actors strike and try to win back their right wing audience.

 

[Z25]

Ngl at this point I don’t really bother with opinions about the MCU when it comes to reviewing each project separately. The overall issues had that the likes of Variety and Forbes discussed is one thing sure, and it’s understandable to feel worn out by the amount of content dropping, but the review bombing I ain’t gonna care for.

I especially realized to not take it seriously after the whole “MCU is over only to quickly turn into a MCU is back then back to over and return to back” thing that happened within a week due to the production discussion + Loki and The Marvels + Echo and Blade being mature rated.

it apparently might be an alternate Loki being the villain of the season, similar to the Loki Agent of Asgard comic series. This is assumed based on some concept art that got dropped specifically about the current season.. I would be down for it if legit

The strike being in the way aside, the trailers only needed to show an abusive amount of Kamala (aka the star of the show based on reviews). That and the Brie Larson stuff is kinda pathetic. Whether it’s insecure men or any other sort of dummies, it feels both weird and goofy as hell to hate a woman that had valid points made.

that and turning against a fellow Nintendo gamer is crazy

Spoiler

That’s possible, and OB could even still be working with them. His room in the real world, Gave me big he who remains citadel vibes. Looked very similar to the layout of that room.

Plus the paradox of the TVA being made before him allegedly, but he made the rule book that even Kang used. Makes me think they are partner in this whole thing.

But if the theory that our Loki is actually the one in charge now/will take over, then it could make sense that we see the past version of him confront his future self in the finale.

I liked the concept, but it would suck if this Loki never gets to reunite with Thor.

I also wonder how the show will progress the grander story leading up to secret wars. Maybe Loki takes over, learns Kang is still coming back, and decides it’s time to make his own avengers like team to stop him.

 

[TheMightyP]

Between that and the scattered marketing for Wish, I can see why some people believe that they are deliberately tanking these movies to blame the actors strike and try to win back their right wing audience.

Either blame the strike or blame women.

I mean we already know what route these crusty nerds are taking.

 

[SneakyLink]

In other news with WB Games:

Spoiler

WB will focus on more live service games going forward:

"Our focus is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC based with three-four year release schedules to include more always on gameplay through live services, multiplatform and free-to-play… pic.twitter.com/WkjYOLWvjJ

— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) November 8, 2023

Original source is WB’s earnings call.

 

[TheMightyP]

In other news with WB Games:

Spoiler

WB will focus on more live service games going forward:

"Our focus is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC based with three-four year release schedules to include more always on gameplay through live services, multiplatform and free-to-play… pic.twitter.com/WkjYOLWvjJ

— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) November 8, 2023

Original source is WB’s earnings call.

Common WB L

 

[Z25]

In other news with WB Games:

Spoiler

WB will focus on more live service games going forward:

"Our focus is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC based with three-four year release schedules to include more always on gameplay through live services, multiplatform and free-to-play… pic.twitter.com/WkjYOLWvjJ

— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) November 8, 2023

Original source is WB’s earnings call.

And people said Multiversus was going to stay dead.

 

[SneakyLink]

Common WB L

Someone in a Discord server I’m in has a sticker of Zaslav in sunglasses.

Spoiler: The Sticker’s Name?

Max Greed

 

[TMNTSSB4]

Spoiler

That’s possible, and OB could even still be working with them. His room in the real world, Gave me big he who remains citadel vibes. Looked very similar to the layout of that room.

Plus the paradox of the TVA being made before him allegedly, but he made the rule book that even Kang used. Makes me think they are partner in this whole thing.

But if the theory that our Loki is actually the one in charge now/will take over, then it could make sense that we see the past version of him confront his future self in the finale.

I liked the concept, but it would suck if this Loki never gets to reunite with Thor.

I also wonder how the show will progress the grander story leading up to secret wars. Maybe Loki takes over, learns Kang is still coming back, and decides it’s time to make his own avengers like team to stop him.

Spoiler

either the same or different OB working with an older Loki would be nice, as they’d have no choice but to keep things in as much order as possible before the remaining Kangs kick down the door to chaos land. Loki doing whatever it takes to keep the Kangs from destroying the multiverse, while Strange, the Marvels and X-Men characters (or just Deadpool and Wolverine) are dealing with incursions would be a nice way to ramp up the stakes that they’re all in danger of facing.

and with a Thor/Loki reunion, I see it happening in Secret Wars….hopefully. I’m not too sure on how long Hemsworth will play Thor, so between that and Thor 5 I expect Loki to see him one last time (even if they’re not the exact Thor and Loki each are missing)

In other news with WB Games:

Spoiler

WB will focus on more live service games going forward:

"Our focus is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC based with three-four year release schedules to include more always on gameplay through live services, multiplatform and free-to-play… pic.twitter.com/WkjYOLWvjJ

— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) November 8, 2023

Original source is WB’s earnings call.

Suicide Squad ain’t gonna get to have that good game will they?

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

I mean. It's based on the US grading system, no wonder it's weird +	97-100
A	93-96
A –	90-92
B +	87-89
B	83-86
C +	80-82
C	77-79
C	73-76
C –	70-72
D +	67-69
D	63-6
D –	60-62
F	less than 60

A D is passing in college and thats works for me

 

[Schnee117]

In other news with WB Games:

Spoiler

WB will focus on more live service games going forward:

"Our focus is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC based with three-four year release schedules to include more always on gameplay through live services, multiplatform and free-to-play… pic.twitter.com/WkjYOLWvjJ

— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) November 8, 2023

Original source is WB’s earnings call.

We're already at $12 fatalities, might as well go for $12 brutalities

 

[SnakeFighter64]

In other news with WB Games:

Spoiler

WB will focus on more live service games going forward:

"Our focus is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC based with three-four year release schedules to include more always on gameplay through live services, multiplatform and free-to-play… pic.twitter.com/WkjYOLWvjJ

— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) November 8, 2023

Original source is WB’s earnings call.

Really wish I could communicate the existential sorrow this fills me with in some way...

I know! Imagine if Nintendo made the same announcement. How would that make you feel?

 

[SneakyLink]

We're already at $12 fatalities, might as well go for $12 brutalities

Don’t forget the $15 friendships!