Total co-optation of movie reviews since newspapers have been in decline. I remember when these movies would get 28%.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38154125)

Metacritic is better. It accounts for the strength of the evaluation. There, Endgame gets a 77.

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/avengers-endgame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38154210)

This is statistically impossible, equivalent to winning a tennis match 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 despite winning only 58% of points.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38154221)

Feel free to mentally place Endgame on the graph here: https://qz.com/quartzy/1518240/rotten-tomatoes-is-based-on-bad-statistics-use-metacritic-instead/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38154281)

I can see them being given marching orders to rate it positively but not obligated to give it an A+.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38154287)

Metacritic susses out a 1-100 score based on the actual content of the review.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38154297)

me: religious experience watching The New World (2005) while high on weed.

meanwhile:

him: bluecheck twitter account

me: poasting on xo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38156606)

"4% of critics would rather watch Fantastic Four" or something like that with 500 upvotes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38154354)

A good comparison would be Batman (1989). If you watch it now, the special effects and fight scenes seem dated, and overall the movie feels “old” compared to something like Avengers. But Batman had a historically great acting performance, relied on its story and dialogue and also made you think. You rooted for the bad guy even though he was evil, and it made you laugh. The stunts were more complicated so an adult would appreciate them more. For example the fugitive with the guy jumping in the waterfall, which academically is much more interesting than any CGI action scene in black panther, but visually is much more basic of an experience. Falling Down is another good example of this. The downside of this is that there were many more forgettable, painful awful movies like suburban commando or the ninja turtles movies, and today you are much more likely to see a “good” movie than a “bad” one, which of course is all most people want anymore. The folks who want though provoking stuff can specialize and watch Netflix and HBO or whatever in ways not possible in 1989. It’s rare that a major movie can compete on this level - there will be blood, mad max and Annihilation are some exceptions that I thought were actually pretty good, but they won’t make money like avengers.

So I agree with you in some sense that the movies today serve the current client base better than the 1989 movies would, and critics (beyond all being captured by GC) have less of a function to serve vs the 1980s and 90s when there was a lot more variety and of course less ways to check online.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38154891)

That Batman franchise is a great example because you have the Burton films that were really interesting and would never get made today (even if he directed them) and then you have something like Batman and Robin that was fairly horrible. You’re not going to get either end of that spectrum with a superhero movie now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38156658)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38156578)

honk honk.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38156626)

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38155733)

https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/avengers-endgame-female-representation-black-widow.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38156635)

"the scene immediately revealed itself as the apotheosis of the studio’s expectation that fans of female superheroes be satisfied with scraps, while courting woke points for its supposed forward thinking.

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The presupposition that we’re supposed to salute fifth-billed characters like Mantis and Pepper Potts just for showing up demonstrates how deep Marvel had to dig to come up with these ostensible triumphs of feminism.

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symptomatic of its overall treatment of female characters as walking applause lines first and people (or space aliens) second. The fans are ready to clap for their female favorites, but Marvel should try giving them something to cheer for first."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38175823)

honk world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38156665)

stuffwhitepeoplelike: decrying free markets

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38156652)

Everyone on xo is in lockstep with the Chinese communist party on culture.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38156770)

It was an absolute chore to sit through. Why are these shit comic book movies 3 hours long? Just succinctly tell the story... this isn’t Citizen Kane.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4250520&forum_id=2#38175893)