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nahr:
Ugh, I enjoyed the movie and everyone is entitled to their opinion. Get a grip dude.

lol relax, i did enjoy it too, i just wanted to address the the whole "Ken is dumb" shenanigans and coincidentally you brought it up. My rant wasn't an attack on your opinion or how you perceived the movie, apologies if it seems so.

ErenXSatoru:
Actually you’re right in a sense, the issue was it’s a blockbuster and they took themselves seriously it should have been a satire, especially when they called the real world a patriarchy which is not in the West

"Took themselves seriously" in what context? Because it was billed as a "Fantasy comedy" and nothing in that sub genre screams seriousness tbh. Greta Gerwig just wanted to make a "simple " live action of a popular merchandise and make many people's childhood fantasies come true, the promotion just went out of whack, as many brand didn't want to waste a once in a lifetime "PR goldmine" by not tapping into it, Heck if i was a marketing lead at a big firm, i would probably fear for my job if i didn't"tap into the Barbie hysteria". The whole promotions had a very strong satirical undertone, so what gives??

nahr:
It's almost 1am and I just finished watching Barbie. I'd give the story line a 6/10 and costuming 8/10. The Kens were really hilarious especially Ryan Gosling. It's a light hearted movie, like it's not that deep but I get why some men are mad lol, the movie made men look dumb.

Anyone angry at this has probably never seen a Barbie media in thier life prior, i bet you, if this movie came out , let say 10 years ago, people will have absolutely no qualms with it, but now, movies are being watched with big microscope to see which silly thing they did wrong, and that's why we have many bad movies now in ratio to Good ones, Film makers are simply afraid to express thier "art" properly, they expect them to please, the rainbow gang, racial mafias, misguided feministas, egotistical misogynists and even the disabled (more recently)!, all in a 2hrs movie!. Now tell me how this kind of flick would come out good.

I use to enjoy Family Guy but not anymore because of BS like this, if S1 - S5 came out in this period, these people would have probably convulse and have a stroke. Nobody and Nothing was out of bound in thier butt of jokes and they engaged hot topics in thier gags, 9/11, the Christian "God", Jesus, The Prophet SAW, LGTV folks, i mean nothing was out of bounds. It was now left for the audiences to decipher how to interpret this art.


If one's takeaway from the Barbie movie is that "Men are dumb", then that person has no business seeing movies, and as the movie is PG-13, if your 13 year old child sees it and concluded that, he/she/their Father is dumb?, Then that person is probably failing as a parent.

abduleez1:
I know say this werey go hoard him film die.
Ppl wey dey wait for Oppenheimer, na to wait taya till November at least as per Christopher Nolan.

The werey signed a 100 days cinema exclusive run with Universal 😩😩, which elapses on Oct. 29th, so you are correct, November is the earliest date for the VOD.

Calibrator:
Every piece of art has its target audience

loool Maaann. I have never seen a more apt response than this in a while on this thread. Should be framed and hanged up, in the louvre tbh....too elite 🌟

abduleez1:
Yep, I saw and read the article. The only issue with most folks who saw the headline is that they didn't and failed to read the details of the article. They just took the headline and formed whatever narrative they wanted to.

In the article: the prevalence of influencing critics scores on RT is for smaller movies; mostly unknown indie films. That's not the case for blockbuster or studio films we're used to. So that headline can be somewhat misleading.
The PR firms pay scores of unknown critics who are part of the pool Rotten Tomatoes source aggregate reviews from. Those critics you've never heard of or seen their names before are paid the $50 to influence scores for their movies mostly so that those particular films gains audience interest and in a way sway major or key film distributors like Sony, A24, MGM, Lionsgate etc to buy their films and distribute them. That's the goal. That's also a function these film festivals do to expose their supposed "small or indie or genre films" to key distributors.
You think they'd be able to pay a top critic from Variety, Rolling Stone, Indie Wire etc?? $50 at that. Who accepts that apart from the bottom feeders?

Of course, everything has nuance.
You've surely seem instances where I've openly criticised critics or fault their metrics for films. Eg, I found issue with Shape of Water winning Best Picture. I had issues with the mixed and somewhat negative reception of BABYLON which I feel will be a classic in the not too distant future. Then there's No Country For Old Men that's a headscratcher how it is so highly reviewed and won Best Picture in 2007.

There's many instances like that. But one sure thing I know, critics are 90% of the time right especially when they ain't reviewing a film for political or sociocultural reasons. They don't get it right all the time, but they're damned pretty reliable anyday anytime.

Cc Baddestguyp

Fairs. I did read the article and i knew the poll was from a small time critics but why i used the analogy was that professional critics can actually be nudged to make "false" reviews, whether by monetary or by agenda.

At my bolded lies the problem, there are just too many political and sociocultural reasons these days stoking and clouding up actual good reviews and there's is no saying that higher up critics can't be "bought", money can actually move "mountains". Take "Babylon" for example, a top reviewer called it "exhausting unexciting"!, Glad you have seen it, was it anything close to unexciting?.

I think the best metrics, if one is to go by it seriously, is when both the critics and audience score aligns.

abduleez1:
I like as One Piece fans are premiumly downvoting AOT episodes.
That fanbase is too loud and fvvking annoying.


The show is great but their fans hype it up to the heavens like it's the best thing after the discovery of sliced bread.
AOT fans also has weirdos that do the same shit downvoting other shows. Tit for tat as all things should be balanced. I see no issues there.

Another prime reason why I don't take audience ratings seriously at all. Bunch of clowns rates shit anyhow they feel without professional touch or experience.
Person wey dey take audience scores seriously, na him self he dey whine. (It's basically just a metric to test how much audiences enjoyed a program... nothing else). It doesn't usually reflect the quality of the project.

Only audience score I take with some level of seriousness and authenticity is CINEMASCORE. Especially as it's the direct ratings from people actually coming out from a cinema screen. Direct from the source. No manipulations. You know how the viewer feel about a movie as soon as he's done watching.

So, critics scores and opinions will remain GOATED and the key reference point.

Did you see the piece last week about small PR companies influencing critics ratings for as low as 50 bucks?.

Point is, both side of the divide have thier issues as there are too many factors affecting these decisions, some might be silly agendas, some might be that the show is actually good or bad and others might be monetary as shown by the article yesterday.


I always reference "Hillbilly Elegy" (2020) as an example, i don't know if you've seen the movie, Critics bash the movie because of one tiny insignificant detail, that truly didn't interfere with the narrative the movie was trying to tell. When i finally saw it, it was a mighty fine movie with a bonus of been scored by the legendary Hans Zimmer!. Now i would have missed out on it because of crack heads professional critics with silly agenda that seems insincere on paper.


More often than not, I have also seen very poor movies rated highly by professional critics, case in point, just go with your guts and let these reviews whether professional or not, be a "little pointer" rather than an actual guide because you would miss out on alot if you pay serious mind to either.

Baddestguyp:
it's been working tho...

They've downvoted the show from 9.2 to 9.0 in just 4 days...

Attack on Titan also had 6 episodes rated 9.9 on IMDB...now it has 0

All the episodes and the shows rating is tanking so fast in just 4 days...and they aren't stopping at all

The issue has been reported to IMDB but who knows if they'll do something since it isn't Ozymandias.

12k 1 star ratings on one episode alone...wtf

Just checked now, and "Midnight sun" and "That Day" has both dropped to 9.8 and below top 10...like wtf? People are really that jobless?

Anyway, they can't deter peak, every sane person knows AOT is top shelf quality. The plot has way deeper meaning and psychology, that you might be randomly talking about the events on it, and people that are hearing it for the first time, would think it is not an animated show, i dare say, it beats many conventional shows in writing... People will visit it for years to come, long after it has ended.

Octopusssy:
Irony is the man in your meme is very skinny.

and ironically the goal of every "glutton", to eat as much as possible and still be skinny, thereof opening up the possibility for more feasting.

Baddestguyp:
I can't wait.

10 years in the making. Been following the show weekly since 2013...

My favorite show of all time...
One of the best shows of all time ending on November 4th


Even the haters are preparing for the finale:
Army of 6000 growing massively and creating more accounts daily for it

lol These weirdos are something else and they never seem to amaze me, like why and what's the point of hating on one of the best piece of tv since the 2000? They are not even hating enough cuz it doesn't seem to affect the metrics on IMDB, as the episode ratings are still very high on IMDB and ranks among the highest on the platform.

My own own is they shouldn't shift November 4th oo, i hate that it is ending 😔 but excited at the same time to see it end 😀.

Lmaoo "The actual ending" caption is cracking me up 😂😂. It has been on for 10 years or so but with only 4 seasons, Elite Milking 😩😩, but will miss the hell out of it when it finally does end. GOAT show fr 🌟

abduleez1:
This looks fire AF!!!
The CGI is premium. 🙌👌

#TrustInJamesWan


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbb4e_Q6wR8?si=cY7wxwyQxz6T4qrb

This looks so good ngl. Any word on the Amber Heard situation?, It seems to be the only thing that might derail it's potential greatness.

Anyways, the line up from now till December looks really tasty 😋....we eating good it seems all ember months.✌️

tonididdy:
If you nor fine, at least get mouth!




Doyin 💯

Beauty is so so subjective because Doyin is very far from ugly.

Psady:
please genius43,what other things do those phone engineers at CV do to a new phone apart from configuring Ur Gmail. I bought a new redmi 12 device and was asked to do configuration for a fee of 1500

Configure your Gmail? Hope you didn't give your google account password to randos? I don't think there's any device or OS in 2023 that requires "monetary configuring".

solostar1:
Thanks for the explanation. Show me the telegram way biko, PSA wahala too much.

search for
P4Psa2. Click on it and click the bot you want according to what you want.

abduleez1:
@ Oyaskii, Yorgos will ask for an apology... 😂😂

I swear 😩😂😂...Na me dey beg na, e b like say Baba don cook better food 😋

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022).

“As my obsession grew, I was saving body parts, such as skulls and skeletons.”

Jeffrey Dahmer, Jan. 12, 1993.


When Netflix did "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile": The Ted Bundy Biopic (2019), so well, i knew they had something for me and other true crime and serial killers profilers aficionado. My eyes literally lit up when they announced the "Monster" anthology series that focuses on Serial Killers and i was giddy when they chose Jeffrey Dahmer as the first profile, his psychopathy range is an all timer, he is one of the best studied profiles in the true crime docu world.

When the series came out last year, i had to let it marinate and i picked it up a day ago, and it kept me up till 3am, 2 days ago!. Maann, it was such top shelf serial killer biopic, that I don't even need any further true crime pod or docu on this cold, psychotic killer, the depiction exudes a next level realness on the chilling horrors of Dahmer's crime as he murdered and cannibalise 17 boys across racial lines, for no apparent reason, he stripped his victims to bones, and kept thier skeletons in bleach for perfect preservation and thier flesh, he kept for barbecue!, It earned him the chilling nickname name, The Milwaukee Cannibal.


The show runners altered some accounts of the actual story probably to make for better TV, the entire thing is great stuff still, they started from his arrest and worked thier way up from his troubled past to his murders, then trial. Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer is an all timer casting, his depiction of the role was the finest quality and he adorned the blonde and glasses to completely match the physical profile of JD, you would have to watch carefully to catch the nuances of unbridled psychosis that is hidden his tempered mannerism..just an amazing top tier acting.

A decent watch i dare say, and an easy recommend for folks who love true crime docu, pod or depictions but stay away if true crime lore upsets you and makes your stomach squeaky because Jeffrey Dahmer was a sick, twisted and sadistic fellow and the show is pretty grime and bleak.

The show returns next year, taking on the Menéndez brothers, The dynamic duo, offed their Parents on a moonless night, because apparently, the inheritance money was taking too long.... Exciting stuff to look forward to tbh!.

8/10.

solostar1:
Can someone please put me through on how to download from psa...

I use 1DM+ browser

Maann..The Psa site is not easy to navigate, but just click the "download" button on the page of what you want to download and it will take you 3rd party site, some might require to solve captcha others will require you to just be clicking "next" and waiting for some small amount of time, the "next" button might not be pronounced but look well. The final page will have a set of links to the file you want and you can paste those links on 1DM+ browser to download.

I know Psa is premium quality but the hassle to get their link is a real struggle as they get thier revenue from ads so they are aggressive with it, but Pahe offers almost similar quality but with way less hassle.

Plus it's been almost 3 years since i physically even visited the Psa site itself, as if you know your way around Telegram, thier files are always hosted thier...let me if you would like this option.

Achilles100:
What season is this latest Top Boy? Season 3 or 5?

I have searched on torrent, yet to see any new Top Boy but its out on Netflix.

S5. Pahe has had it since yesterday i think.

"but you know you last" 😂😂...Baye English dey confuse Cross fgs

abduleez1:
Lol, wetin be this. 😂😂

RT na American company na 😂😂. The US dey beef Roman Polanski. Pesin wey suppose dey Jail sef, dey get mind dey release film.

Kaycee7:
Barbie don show. Na Heinmer remain

Terrible source Harmano. A clean source and decent quality is like 10 days away...calma 📍

shegsman58:
Pls guys, which good phone can i buy within the 70 to 80k range.
Not a fan of itel and tecno

Redmi 12C. Or if you a fan of second devices, you can get decent deals on 2nd good Redmi mid rangers from years past around that price Mark

Come see something @ abduleez1 👀👀👀. I don change mind o 😂. About to fall for the Yorgos Lanthimos's gimmick again fgs 😩😩😊

"Smile" (2022).

Trauma/Horror fest

This was so "mid-2000" regen horror flick. No coherent plot and defying any logical reason while an evil entity is seemly making people "off" themselves whilst smiling 😊. What the film offers in abundance is a good use of the trauma to horror trope with very good jump scares.

I totally approve.

7/10.

pu7pl3:
Abduleez1 wey dey post trailers never watch half of wetin him dey post sef🤭😂

😂😂😂

ErenXSatoru:
What app is this?

Tv time.

August was so good to me ngl. I ate good like a new born ☺️☺️.

The "Embers", what do have for me? 👐

abduleez1:
Lol, I ain't familiar with his craft but plan on watching The Favourite and maybe Killing of a Sacred Deer.

This one catches my fancy.

Killing of the Sacred Deer was okay. But you see "The Favourite", avoid it with every thing you hold holy 😩😩. I used 2 months watch am, total borefest, They baited me with the Olivia Colman Oscar win gimmick 🤦🏾‍♂️. The man na fraud abeg.

abduleez1:
Trailer buffet today....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHCsauMyJk0?si=jo-KWd9DBm-fkSHH

I get S1 since last year and i never even touch...Maannn you cannot watch everything in this lifetime, it's impossible, we have to sadly let some go😭😭

abduleez1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVx-v90MmMM?si=7f0KD73EP1h7fkY9



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlbR5N6veqw?si=XGxMECcziKOHByQ3

I will pass, I am not falling for Yorgos Lanthimos's gimmick again. I trusted him with "The Lobster" (2015) and he failed me. I'm not a fan of his weirdness 👎

"Past Lives" (2023)

What if this is a past life as well, and we are already something else to each other in our next life? Who do you think we are then?


If a movie gives me the feeling that Charlie Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), one of the best films i have ever seen, gave me, then that movie must be special.

Wow! This was a marvelous rendition of those tiny forces that binds us together but sometimes tears us apart. Celine Song's Past Lives is so magical in its simplicity that might seem monotonous and probably too mundane for those unaware or new to art as good as this. It challenges the very essence of the human connection by presenting as a romantic flick, but it's much more, the beautiful direction and powerful delivery by the cast allowed me to absorb each emotional wrenching moment, i had to learn unrelenting patience in some part of the movie that wanted answers to the question the flick was asking, desperately.

The cinematography is top work, good enough for those beautiful frames and mundane enough to drive the narrative. The dialogue was 60% Korean and 40% English and it didn't feel like i was seeing a foreign language movie as the Korean was as if it was a language i had known all my life, as the actors actions was enough to get the message across, it might as well be a silent language film and i will still get.

The beautiful flaw [/i]of Past Lives is that it poses so many questions but with no definite answers. What were we in our Past Lives? Have we lived this life before? Are we transversing various Lives and settling for the one that suites us best?. The entire flick is a placard of the simplest life questions but the right answer might not be the best answer.
I haven't seen some obvious titles this year for reasons behind my control but this almost toppling Rye Lane and [i]Joyland as the best titles to have been released this year that i have seen so far, says a lot. This is a special special movie. One of my fave show of the year so far being "Beef" means the Asians are seriously cooking maannn, i probably need to get into thier media more, especially that of the Koreans.

And A24! Maann, These guys can't even miss even if they tried, Thier knack for top shelf media is just uncanny at this point. They are the only major studio allowed to work through this strike, and the reason is not far fetched, they care about this art so so much.

9/10