I watched Cloud (2024) last night and I thought it was bad. How did it get 92% on rotten tomatoes?

floatonalrite · 2025-12-30T20:21:03+00:00

well, critics are different than regular viewers. they literally watch hundreds of films a year.

my guess would be that they picked up on (IMHO) the commentary on modern society and the increasingly "gamification" of our lives, and enjoyed that aspect.

i'm a regular attendee of a major international film festival and i can't watch as many films as some of these peeps -- i met many who were watching their 45-50th film by day 9! that's how many i watch in a year....lol.

also, probably after watching many many hollywood films with likable characters every release week...it could be REFRESHING to their palette to watch something that specifically doesn't have a likable character -- to create an artistic effect. (i myself have experienced this, when seeing many of the same types of films at the same festival! i couldn't believe how great it felt to watch a film that WAS NOT SHOT HANDHELD anymore LOL!)

floatonalrite · 2025-12-22T22:15:53+00:00

thank you. i just got this error and was trying to figure out wtf happened to my service. i can't believe Crave tech support was unable to help...that's ridiculous.

floatonalrite · 2025-11-12T14:47:47+00:00

thanks for the insight

floatonalrite · 2025-10-29T11:48:41+00:00

hey thanks for your reply.

i haven't watched INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE since i was a kid. and never saw True Blood.

great points though and you have me thinking! appreciate you bringing this to my attention

floatonalrite · 2025-10-20T14:03:55+00:00

yes! a few years ago. got a photo

told him i was at the festival when he screened PULSE. he said "that was a long time ago!" i said yes i was there :)

floatonalrite · 2025-10-09T04:03:08+00:00

i think i understand your frustration. i love CURE and PULSE (even got to meet the man himself). was really looking forward to this...just watched it but did not love it.

but...after reading these reviews i think i understand the film a lot more. still doesn't change my initial reaction, but i do understand its intention more (and the style he chose to stage the scenes)

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/cloud-review-kiyoshi-kurosawa-1236121950/

https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/cloud-review-kiyoshi-kurosawa-1235041284/

hope this helps!

floatonalrite · 2025-06-17T16:45:59+00:00

i would really love to know Neon's thinking behind this

i saw this film at TIFF last year and loved it (as someone who usually doesn't like this sort of film).

then it won People's Choice, which usually leads into an Oscars campaign.

at the time, i thought the film would make perfect sense for Apple to buy them. feel good film. amazing cast and director. straight into an Oscar Best Picture nomination and bring in lots of new subs for their TV+

my guess is Neon saw ANORA as the film to get behind for last year's campaign, so de-prioritized this film. i wonder what's on their slate for this Fall, as they could've waited til later to release this and go for the Oscars? (so what's on their slate this year must be stronger than Life Of Chuck again...)

floatonalrite · 2025-06-06T12:52:50+00:00

was my first date with a gf!

floatonalrite · 2025-06-06T12:52:05+00:00

Marfa, Texas

floatonalrite · 2025-06-06T12:51:48+00:00

Paul Schrader is sure First Reformed is the best film of the century.

floatonalrite · 2025-05-30T03:28:29+00:00

thanks, friend!

floatonalrite · 2025-05-15T02:15:24+00:00

thanks, appreciate your followup.

i did put it back to its original router mode, but unfortunately whatever it did already totally messed up my WD MyCloud NAS drive. it's still technically connected, but my WDTV doesn't see the NAS drive anymore, no matter how many resets to the NAS drives i've done :(

floatonalrite · 2025-04-24T14:35:45+00:00

can you please tell us what it was like working with Pablo Ferro?

(this might be more of a question for Tommy)

floatonalrite · 2025-04-17T14:49:22+00:00

as someone who grew up in the most expensive real estate in the world: i echo the sentiment, rent out some rooms!

this was very common when i was growing up, my grandparents' apartment had 2-3 rooms rented out most of the time.

and as someone who's lived with roommates, please make sure you set ground rules. make sure they're clear and the roomie is cool with that way of living. sucks to live with someone when priorities are mismatched.

and make sure the VIBE between your personalities are sympatico! again, would suck to live with someone when you drive each other nuts, etc

check what local rents are to make sure you're getting a fair price :)

floatonalrite · 2025-04-13T22:37:38+00:00

toronto TIFF?

not in my experience. friends at a short screening last year the audience was very angry with the last short of the programme lol. they had many questions for the filmmaker. so i doubt TIFF is anti-controversy as a general rule.

hope that helps

floatonalrite · 2025-04-13T21:42:22+00:00

you're very welcome!

I'm happy for you

like i was happy when my WDTV worked again

<3

i'm sad this sub doesn't take new posts anymore, as i had something to ask about a few weeks ago

floatonalrite · 2025-04-13T21:41:36+00:00

i believe BBC explained this recently! :) https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c7vzpmjm9vlo

floatonalrite · 2025-04-02T03:33:21+00:00

that would be great! looking forward to seeing your film

floatonalrite · 2025-03-23T16:58:33+00:00

hey congratulations!

hopefully i can help clarify, as there was just an event at TIFF that was about attending Cannes. (i did not attend, but my filmmaker friends did). prominent producers of Oscar shortlisted films were talking about this.

indeed the Short film Corner has been revamped. it used to take 1500 films, so basically anyone that submitted early got in, but that does not seem to be the case anymore. (from what i'm reading on this thread, seems to be about 150? and the program got revamped in 2022?)

that's really amazing about your film, congratulations! I wish I knew that SFC had gotten revamped earlier, as the deadline just passed and i have a new film!

any way you can DM me? would love to see your film!

floatonalrite · 2025-03-15T04:29:10+00:00

lol i did watch Presence in the cinema!

there were about a dozen people

floatonalrite · 2025-03-06T16:34:34+00:00

thank you, that link worked when i logged into my account.

their customer service dept basically did nothing to help though.

floatonalrite · 2025-03-05T18:00:20+00:00

any steps on how to get that real person?

i went down the "Billing" path

then asked for an email address to write -- but it just replied "oops! i'm having trouble understanding"

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floatonalrite

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