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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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grumbler

Quote from: Eddie Teach on September 16, 2020, 06:01:27 PM
He even gave you the year. :contract:

I gave him many more than just one year. :contract:
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Syt

Does Rotten Tomatoes take newer reviews for older movies take into account? After all it's possible that a movie gets lukewarm reviews on release and becomes reevaluated later.
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celedhring

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Quote from: Syt on September 16, 2020, 10:32:09 PM
Does Rotten Tomatoes take newer reviews for older movies take into account? After all it's possible that a movie gets lukewarm reviews on release and becomes reevaluated later.

They do, they have a separate team that aggregates reviews from films not currently in release. If you check any film from, say, the 2000s you'll see there's several more recent reviews on the database: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ai_artificial_intelligence/reviews

It won't make that much of a difference score-wise, since the number of "revised" reviews is pretty small compared to the bulk of reviews films get on release.

celedhring

HBO Spain just released the list of most watched shows in August. #1 is a local comedy, #2 is Lovecraft Country, and #3 is GoT which I find incredible 18 months after it ended. No wonder HBO will try to milk it as much as possible.

The Brain

Well a train wreck is a train wreck. You can't stop watching.
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Josquius

Quote from: Syt on September 16, 2020, 10:32:09 PM
Does Rotten Tomatoes take newer reviews for older movies take into account? After all it's possible that a movie gets lukewarm reviews on release and becomes reevaluated later.

A risky undertaking.
Citizen kane for instance with modern eyes is very bleh, so much of the clever stuff it did haven became the norm.
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celedhring

Quote from: Tyr on September 17, 2020, 05:03:51 AM
Quote from: Syt on September 16, 2020, 10:32:09 PM
Does Rotten Tomatoes take newer reviews for older movies take into account? After all it's possible that a movie gets lukewarm reviews on release and becomes reevaluated later.

A risky undertaking.
Citizen kane for instance with modern eyes is very bleh, so much of the clever stuff it did haven became the norm.

No it's not.  :huh:

Sure, the peak of its appreciation is long passed, but it's still considered one of the best films ever made.

Unless you mean "if Citizen Kane was released today", which is a pointless way to gauge movies released 80 years ago.

Josephus

Away. New series on Netflix. Saw episode one. Very good, well acted. Moving. I admit to tearing up a couple times.
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Eddie Teach

I got about 5 episodes in. May go back if bored enough. I wish it was more space and less drama, though it's watchable as is.
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Eddie Teach

Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams. An anthology series in the vein of Black Mirror. Overall, the quality is similar, though this one is more consistently average.
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Josquius

Quote from: celedhring on September 17, 2020, 05:23:48 AM
Quote from: Tyr on September 17, 2020, 05:03:51 AM
Quote from: Syt on September 16, 2020, 10:32:09 PM
Does Rotten Tomatoes take newer reviews for older movies take into account? After all it's possible that a movie gets lukewarm reviews on release and becomes reevaluated later.

A risky undertaking.
Citizen kane for instance with modern eyes is very bleh, so much of the clever stuff it did haven became the norm.

No it's not.  :huh:

Sure, the peak of its appreciation is long passed, but it's still considered one of the best films ever made.

Unless you mean "if Citizen Kane was released today", which is a pointless way to gauge movies released 80 years ago.
Thats what we're talking about. Modern reviews on old films, looking at a film on its own merits rather than for all the influence and importance it has.
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The Larch

Archer just started its new season this week, with the first two episodes available already. They seem to go back to "reality" now instead of further fantasy worlds as in the last few seasons.

celedhring

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Quote from: Tyr on September 18, 2020, 03:39:43 AM
Thats what we're talking about. Modern reviews on old films, looking at a film on its own merits rather than for all the influence and importance it has.

What Syt means is re-evaluating films after some time has passed and you get more distance, which is fine and has nothing to do about analizying them in a vaccum since nobody does that. Citizen Kane barely made a splash when it came out, it was re-evaluated later.

That said, RT score is too broad a brush for this kind of exercise, imho.

Liep

Quote from: The Larch on September 18, 2020, 03:44:49 AM
Archer just started its new season this week, with the first two episodes available already. They seem to go back to "reality" now instead of further fantasy worlds as in the last few seasons.

Hopefully it'll help. It's been a little weak in the last couple of seasons.
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The Larch

Quote from: Liep on September 18, 2020, 03:51:00 AM
Quote from: The Larch on September 18, 2020, 03:44:49 AM
Archer just started its new season this week, with the first two episodes available already. They seem to go back to "reality" now instead of further fantasy worlds as in the last few seasons.

Hopefully it'll help. It's been a little weak in the last couple of seasons.

For now the first two episodes feature missions that somehow feel like a throwback to the first seasons, even with the surprise re-appearance of an old character in the 2nd episode, [spoiler]Conway Stern![/spoiler] [spoiler]Who, of course, ends up maimed.[/spoiler]  :lol:

The tone is a bit different, though, it focuses on how Archer will have to re-adapt to the new situation, as he's not in shape to be a top field agent after the 3 year coma he went through, and how the rest of the team moved on without him. For instance... [spoiler]Cyril is now a badass field agent, taking Archer's spot as top operative of the agency, and Lana has married a new character. Also, the atmosphere amongst the characters is, initially much different, with daytime drinking banned in the company (except for Mallory) and everyone trying to be more professional and functional.[/spoiler]