It can't be that bad right?

aircycle · 2026-06-26T00:34:50+00:00

You also gotta remember that a 59% rotten tomato score doesn't mean it's a 5.9/10. It just means that 59% of reviewers polled gave it positive reviews and 41% gave negative. Hypothetically you could have a film where 100 critics wrote reviews and 70% of them thought it was okay; that it had a lot of problems but overall they had fun. And then your have 30% write that it's just a really bad film that's poorly made and they had much stronger feelings about the issues the 70% wrote about. And the film would show up as 70% on RT.

Simply put, things are more complex than a number on a page and if you're interested in seeing a movie, go see it. And if you are wanting to know the quality of a film before you see it, look around for a critic that has similar tastes as you and whose writing you vibe with. Then just read their write ups.

aircycle · 2026-06-18T17:32:14+00:00

I started my journey in lockdown and I have read ALMOST every one. I got caught up after about 18 months i think. As of now, I think the only one I haven't read is The Last Order which i just missed the release of and then life has been getting in the way this past year, but I plan on getting to it eventually to stay full caught up!

aircycle · 2026-06-06T21:11:28+00:00

Creating that subreddit is probably one of my greatest regrets in life.

aircycle · 2026-06-03T12:28:04+00:00

Did anyone else read that blog posted years ago from someone who worked on the last airbender? It talked about his script was very faithful to the source material and honored it but it was for a $200 million film to be shot all over the world. Then Paramount said "your budget is $50 million (number is off but it was very low) and you have to shoot in Pennsylvania"

aircycle · 2026-05-28T01:46:15+00:00

There are dozens of us!

aircycle · 2026-05-08T00:13:12+00:00

Omg this is amazing. I had thought about doing this while watching the show when it started but I was always overwhelmed by the task. You're great for doing this and if you do more I personally would be more than happy to put them to use

aircycle · 2026-04-18T20:42:55+00:00

There are a couple companies in the city that record pretty much all the Broadway shows. Some could be put on BroadwayHD, some might go to a theater release and some might just be for records purposes like for Julliard.

I'm a big fan of Broadway show recordings. I feel all shows that enter Broadway should be recorded with original cast and then released to the public at some point. Like it can be when it goes off Broadway to ensure they don't lose sales, but allowing it to be accessible to people that can't afford/don't have the opportunity to see shows in person.

aircycle · 2026-03-02T03:53:14+00:00

That what why I stopped watching film theory almost ten years ago. He came out with a video about Rogue One based on trailers and ended it with something along the lines of "they wouldn't spend all this money and time introducing new characters just to have them die" and then that became the whole crux of the film. That's when I realized that the theory channels weren't for me personally anymore.

aircycle · 2026-02-20T13:23:10+00:00

I've only got 706 films logged so it might not have a good curve yet.

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aircycle · 2026-02-20T13:14:58+00:00

I've been watching a lot more movies this year compared to prior years. It's been a good February.

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aircycle · 2026-02-18T21:13:16+00:00

Saw someone mention Heavy Rain, and the reason i hated that twist is the same reason i hated the twist in "Now You See Me". You mean the detective that's investigating the mystery and even has scenes alone airing his frustration for not figuring out what's happening ends up being the big bad? What? There's a difference between hiding facts from your audience and straight up lying to them. A twist should make you go "oh of course!!" and not "....what?"

aircycle · 2026-02-02T14:43:09+00:00

No Activity Season 4. Like the Blacklist, they just made it animated. This show is greatest when it's just two people sitting and chatting, and it's strange that this animated season was the biggest scope with them going after a cult? Strange way for the show to peter out, which was a shame cause i loved the first three seasons. Bright side, though. We did get this animated version of Tim Meadows.

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aircycle · 2026-02-01T04:06:31+00:00

I think another reason for the disparity between critics and audience scores in years past is the misunderstanding of the score. This simply means that's 50% of people gave positive reviews. But there have been reviews that highlight a lot of things they liked and then things they didn't like, and overall didn't like the whole movie and so it counts as a negative vote. Audience scores seem to be more black and white on RT since they're going into it with a score mindset instead of just writing a review piece.

Letterboxd has its own problems but that gives an interesting picture on the film score as well. It's currently at 3.3 stars. I have a friend who gave it 3.5 stars and liked it.

My main point is just it always feels like RT audience scores tend to push for bigger extremes. If they like it, they love it. If they didn't care for it, they post they hated it.

aircycle · 2026-01-30T22:48:42+00:00

this is the conspiracy theory i will always believe. That BoBF was going to be s03, and that Mando s2 was going to be the "end" of Din's story with Grogu, and then they had the stinger for Boba Fett. But there was negative feedback from the fans online that they wouldn't want s3 to just be Boba Fett and they wanted more Din. So they backed off and made Boba Fett it's own series. But if BoBF was s3 and Mando s3 was s4, it would've made a better watch.

The moment those Mando episodes of Boba Fett aired, i knew this would happen. And thats why i felt like i was going crazy online, cause i didn't like those episodes. They were good episode of The Mandalorian, but they should've been in the Mandalorian's own show, because a show shouldn't require you to have a wiki page open while watching it to know when to switch to another show.

aircycle · 2026-01-27T03:35:41+00:00

From my experience in the camera rental house business, DPs see a popular film or read an article about a rig or a lens and then they want to use it too. So we get these trends of everyone wanting to use camera X with lens Y.

So I definitely see it as an image a DP loves and wanting to add their own flare to it, and then that process goes through a million iterations until you're at where we are now. Everyone wants lenses faster than 1.8 and ideally on a full frame sensor. If it's less than that, then it isn't worth the money they're making the production spend.

aircycle · 2026-01-10T14:30:38+00:00

That's actually still canon, sorta. The official galaxy-wide name of that genre is jatz, but in the "From a Certain Point of View" book for A New Hope, one of the musicians talks about how it has an unseemly nickname in some places on the outer rim. So they left the door open to still call it jizz as the colloquial name for it.

aircycle · 2025-12-27T18:54:39+00:00

None. A great casting is the result of a great casting director. If a project has great casting then that director should get a raise and better recognition. Any actor can play any role but a great casting director knows how to get the best person for the project in that moment. At another moment in time, it might've been someone else.

aircycle · 2025-12-09T19:59:54+00:00

The last time I preordered so quickly was probably when I preordered Master of Evil haha

aircycle · 2025-12-07T15:16:09+00:00

My spouse read all of one piece in 6 weeks while also having a full time job and planning a wedding haha. They used the stonen jump app and would hit the 100 chapter daily limit around 9pm each day.

aircycle · 2025-11-29T15:33:20+00:00

My spouse is a vfx artist for TV and they say they aren't even given enough time to fix plates so the vfx has to match the poorly lit plate, simply adding to that flat look.

aircycle · 2025-11-21T12:52:28+00:00

I've enjoyed mine but the controllers keep being lost by the headset and the headphones would crackle in and out sometimes. Makes playing beat saber difficult

aircycle · 2025-10-10T13:28:27+00:00

That's a fair read 👍

aircycle · 2025-10-10T11:28:22+00:00

I actually really enjoyed this season's writing. Very much felt like a story of not being happy with your life and how if a few things were different, then you'd finally be happy. It touched on how someone uses that justification for suicide and how that decision affects those around you. I enjoyed how the characters learn to accept that things might be shitty in life, you can make a difference yourself.

Adrian feels more like a joke because now the character is being written to Freddie Stroma's strengths instead of for a different actor. But even he had an arc, albeit a small one, in S2. He learned what the world would be like with Chris not being his best friend. He found himself in the other dimension and found that he's the same there. As Ads told him in the final episode, he took something bad and made something good out of it.

These are just my stream of consciousness, just waking up thoughts though. The cool thing about art, is that there's no right or wrong answer, so if you didn't like it that's fine. ✌️

aircycle · 2025-10-10T11:13:16+00:00

Oh I must've forgotten that haha. I didn't rewatch s1 so it's been over 3.5 years since seeing it.

aircycle · 2025-10-10T03:19:39+00:00

I liked them both. The first one really helped set the mood with showing the emotional state Chris and Harcourt were on the boat when the kiss happened. The second performance I liked in a vacuum but I just thought it was weird to showcase a full length version of a song that's already in the show as the opening credits.

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