Oh, I’m sure that, once word gets out, everyone will have a few Snickers or similar treats to hand at all times, sort of like how spirits would be sent to the afterlife with two coins for Charon, but a bit earlier in the process.
I did a version of this during the height of the pandemic where I hung up a big old clothesline in the front yard and pinned dozens of full size bars to it. Always interesting to see which ones get taken; Twix and KitKat proved the most popular. And the line wasn't empty at night's end! Our neighborhood kids are sweet.
I love people in traffic thanking me, even if they had the right of way.
Happend to me this morning: I had to stop behind a parked car in my lane to let the guy in his lane go first past, he thanked me although I just followed the rules and it instantly put a smile on my face.
I think the main problem is that a single value score means different things to different people. Most people think it means “entertaining”, film nerds think “original”, cineasts think, well, I don’t know actually, but I’d imagine a sum of technical aspects.
One solution would be to split up the rating into aspects, another to filter ratings according to similarity in preferences. None of these are perfect though and the latter may even be another social media trap with all kinds of inherent problematics.
My workaround is to have a quick glance at the different review boards I know for their audience and weigh the scores to the type of movie if it’s worth a two hour investment of time or not.
Personally I came to the conclusion a long time ago that there is no reason for me to rate movies for how faux objectively “good” they are. I don’t rate movies for anybody else. I rate them to keep track of what I’ve seen from people in the production. I try to give it some context, but ultimately it’s an entirely subjective rating for myself.
Counterpoint: Movie “Critics” are supposed to be the ones who judge movie on how well made it is rather than their personal taste. Roger Ebert disliked a lot of films but didn’t deduct the scores because of it.
Funko critics on RT are not qualified to be critics.
I don’t think it’s contradictory to my post. RT is one of the boards I check for the angle of supposedly professional movie critics, though I’ll be the first to admit the standards are pretty low.
I always gave Ebert credit for his review philosophy. Like you said, he would review a slasher movie and he said he didn’t care for them but he would review it from the angle of slasher movies and if it was a good slasher movie. He seemed to have a strange hangup on nudity even though he wrote the script for “Valley of the Dolls.” For instance, he didn’t like “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” because Jennifer Jason Leigh had a nude scene.
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