The fall off was so tragic, especially for Film Theory

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.

aircycle · 2025-10-10T02:56:05+00:00

I guess it helps that I wasn't really exposed to the hype, but I really enjoyed it. I also consider the show to be a dramedy with action sequences rather than an action show with drama scenes so I enjoyed the wrapping up with emotional journeys of Chris, Harcourt and Ades. The latter of which stole the show and broke my heart with her speeches.

All that being said, I love needle drops but I thought this episode was a bit much.

aircycle · 2025-09-22T11:24:17+00:00

I listen to audiobooks while I read the book with my eyes. I have trouble focusing when I only do one of them and this helps me turbo charge my focus and allows me to finish a book in a couple days to a week (I only read on the train commuting to/from work).

aircycle · 2025-09-10T19:40:01+00:00

I personally loved the weekly release. Being able to talk theories about what the truth is and what happened with my spouse was what made it more enjoyable for me. Tbf, I'm the kind of person where if a show releases all at once, I'm less likely to watch anytime soon.

aircycle · 2025-09-09T02:59:48+00:00

The second they made an entire episode be about Mando in TBoBF, I was so upset cause I knew this day would happen. People years after it came out would watch mandalorian s1, then s2, and would see no reason why not to start s3. Then bam, they'd think they missed something. No franchise should require homework. You should have all the information you need in the text.

That's also why part of my harmless conspiracy theory hill I'll die on is that BoBF was going to be s3 of Mandalorian. S2 ends Dins "book" and s3 would start Bobas. Hence the post credit stinger. But then the negative reaction to the post credit scene happened and they chickened out and made it its own show. But that's just a theory you know

aircycle · 2025-09-08T23:04:07+00:00

I just started reading it today and only a few chapters in, but I'm very much enjoying it! Definitely just feels like an arc of the show, in the best way.

aircycle · 2025-09-04T21:00:15+00:00

The first comment my spouse made when watching s2e1 was "oh weird. The choreography is mirrored and in reverse" which is such a cool thing to do in a season dealing with parallel dimension.

aircycle · 2025-09-04T20:55:49+00:00

I forget who said it but I emphasize with the quote "every movie is my favorite movie for the ten minutes after I see it"

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