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   Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 18:47:20 JST Judge Dread

   • pistolero
   @p The dirty trick of Rotten Tomatoes is downgrading the quality of 'critic' they count towards the critic's score, which is an average of positive and negative reviews. If it's 60% or higher it counts as Fresh, below and it's 'Rotten.'
   
   Almost all superhero movies for years ranked at 70% or higher. It's ridiculous. They've clearly added dozens of industry tout fanboy sites like AintItCool 'News' which love every turd Disney shits out.
   
   No more grumpy Statler and Waldorf critics who hate everything need apply.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 18:47:25 JST pistolero

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     @judgedread :newproduct: Sounds to me like you need to get excited for new product. (Did you ever watch the "Kill All Others" episode?)
     
     > No more grumpy Statler and Waldorf critics who hate everything need apply.
     
     The only movie critic I ever read was "The Filthy Critic". He was the only one worth reading. And now that he's dead (or dropped the "alcoholic fuckup" bit, so he MIGHT AS WELL BE) there are none. Entertaining movie critics are usually more entertaining when they hate a movie, he managed to be worth reading regardless. ( https://web.archive.org/web/20080209000347/http://bigempire.com/filthy/archive.html )
     
     Had I been born earlier, "Harlan Ellison's Watching" was pretty good, from the bits I read. I liked his non-review of Star Wars.
     depressed.mp4
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 20:00:53 JST Judge Dread

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     • pistolero
     @p I just watched RLM's second Star Trek The Motion Picture review with Rich Evans.
     
     Theatrical gang here.
     
     Oh, and the reason grumpy critics are now a thing of the past is media consolidation. The magazine, newspaper or website is owned by one of the six conglomerates that make the shitty movies.
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     Berk Berkman (berkberkman@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 23:05:43 JST Berk Berkman

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     @judgedread @p Speaking of Statler and Waldorf, it certainly applies for most of today's "highest ranked" games released the past few years. At least they've got some say before they and anybody like them are eventually get kicked out of The Game Awards for good.
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     Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD (dr_edgar_friendly_md@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 18-Apr-2025 05:27:54 JST Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD

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     @berkberkman @judgedread @p Like seeing all the great reviews of Dragon Age: Failguard. And then a coupke months later the same writers putting up whole a series of articles about how it actually sucked.
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