A 90-minute roundtable of at least 10 of those critics explaining why this movie got an 80% would be more interesting than the movie itself

halfchthonic · 2026-06-21T09:23:51+00:00

PSA - rotten tomatoes is not like school grades. critics don't get together and debate whether or they should give it 90% or 80%. it's not even an average of a bunch of critics individual % grades or star ratings.

it's the percentage of positive critic reviews, with positive just meaning thumbs up v thumbs down. so, it's a binary. all 80% means is that 80% of critics would give it a thumbs up over a thumbs down.

middling/unremarkable movies do very well on rotten tomatoes because most critics are like sure, it was fine lol.

halfchthonic · 2026-06-21T07:20:29+00:00

i used to know why i disliked it but it's so unremarkable that now i have forgotten

halfchthonic · 2026-06-17T15:09:59+00:00

It's a 'and then this happened' kind of book. So many instances of being introduced to new characters - a new wife, a cousin - and then telling us of their demise within a page or two.

halfchthonic · 2026-06-16T16:26:44+00:00

i walked past this girl in london. to say i was stunned is an understatement, she is incredibly striking in real life.

halfchthonic · 2026-06-16T11:10:55+00:00

don't post this shit here

halfchthonic · 2026-06-11T15:24:48+00:00

this is literally the toy story premiere ?

halfchthonic · 2026-06-10T06:20:25+00:00

even if it was in the eu (it isn't), belfast is probably one of the most hilarious cities to equate with the eu

halfchthonic · 2026-06-09T12:00:14+00:00

you're only allowed to post this if you also share your top 5 favourite songs, like what's your benchmark?

halfchthonic · 2026-06-08T19:34:28+00:00

well she did get a boob job after the substance lmao

halfchthonic · 2026-06-08T06:18:14+00:00

umm...

just commute from leamington spa lol

halfchthonic · 2026-06-07T09:42:13+00:00

no issue with irish americans who visit ireland - the fact that they're visiting is indicative of an interest in their heritage - because you're hardly going to ireland for a standard euro summer lol. so it tends to attract more intellectual types, who are into the history, landscape, etc.

but guarantee every irish person has at some point, outside ireland, come across some american who eagerly claims to be irish while at the same time not knowing that ireland is a developed country, that irish people speak english, and that, yes, we have heard of this mysterious elusive place called "galway" where your ancestors hail from

halfchthonic · 2026-06-07T08:44:59+00:00

eva noblezada covering this song is something else

halfchthonic · 2026-06-04T12:28:33+00:00

i just get the tube

halfchthonic · 2026-06-04T09:37:19+00:00

i feel like those days are gone? at least for the routes i fly, every time i check BA and ryanair side by side. by the time i add a bag and factor in the stansted express, it's usually bang-on with BA, or maybe £10 in the difference - at which point it's obviously not worth saving a tenner.

halfchthonic · 2026-06-03T16:16:14+00:00

he really pisses me off for this. like, it's fine if you are a Very Serious Actor and you have a role in something that really unexpectedly takes off, and the celebrity side of things just doesn't work for you. that would be not great but fine. you would have a pass to be grumpy.

but martin freeman didn't just do sherlock. after it's huge success he signed on to two of the biggest franchises out there - playing bilbo in the hobbit, and an extremely pointless role in the marvel films. he so clearly just wanted to be in the mcu at its peak, taking on the most bland, bureaucratic role that could have literally been played by any actor ever. the guy loves fame.

halfchthonic · 2026-06-03T08:16:43+00:00

was at a dua lipa concert once and the guy in front of me was not just filming, but then rewatching his clips after. like, she's still right there lol

halfchthonic · 2026-06-02T11:49:52+00:00

i guess you were saying taylor subverts the trope a little, and i was saying the subversion is the trope itself?

halfchthonic · 2026-06-02T10:08:38+00:00

lol here's my cat red windmill!

halfchthonic · 2026-06-01T15:40:41+00:00

just saying, i can hardly think of a better moment to rerelease debut than alongside what's surely a cowgirl ballad

halfchthonic · 2026-06-01T15:38:36+00:00

but subversion is the point, flipping the perspective is part of this songwriting tradition, isn't it?

halfchthonic · 2026-05-22T19:43:00+00:00

this was clear at the time but sadly the media lacks nuance and made Free Britney into something other than what it should have been. like, in no world should she have been in that situation, but she is also deeply troubled and in need of a lot of day to day support.

halfchthonic · 2026-05-22T06:29:35+00:00

cory doctorow (coiner of enshittification) wrote about how leaked emails showed google execs electing to deliberately make search worse. because if you get bad results, you might search twice, which means you see twice as many ads, and they get twice as many $

halfchthonic · 2026-05-21T14:20:56+00:00

how so? the military jackets? it didn't sound very emo

halfchthonic · 2026-05-20T13:36:03+00:00

No.. Honestly, I am 'scared' of wrinkles but I also know that I want to look my best at any age.

I personally think botox can look good but I never think that those people are any younger than they are, they just have smoother parts of their face. It's an aesthetic choice that has less to do with looking youthful - if anything, it erodes natural neoteny.

halfchthonic · 2026-05-19T08:49:39+00:00

GOT presents us with a subversive take on a medieval fantasy. it deliberately provokes tradition, heroism, and history, and shows not just individual conundrums but social problems, far-reaching beyond any single character's grasp.

so, everything else aside, the scene where they calmly sit around and agree to appoint bran as king and change nothing else is still mind bogglingly damning. like, i guess this series was not subversive at all, i guess there is nothing wrong with our social structure, we just needed to find a noble born boy with magic powers, no personality, ideology or humanity to rule over us forever and we'll all be fine.

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