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bigjon said:
Chris Hu said:

?????? You right wingers crack me up.  Take off your tin foil hat please and take your meds.  There haven't been making any political statements in any major movies lately.  The box office is down because we had a bunch of crap movies and uninspired sequels so far this year.

Right winger? I guess if you have to resort to name calling you have no legitimate response. 

Also I was reffering more to things they people themselves are doing. It distracts from their product. See Johnney Depp as a good recent example. 

They have every right to spout off stupid shit but I just wish they wouldn't because it distracts from the product. Michael Jordan had/has it right. He was once asked why he does not make political statements and his response was "Republicans buy shoes too" 

 

 

 

Well its right wingers for the most part that try to make everything political.  Even if entertainers make policital  statements once in while movies for the most part aren't political and politics have nothing to do with how well a movie does at the box office.  



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Lawlight said:
Chris Hu said:

Its critic metascore is 60 which is slightly below average not good which is 70 or higher.  I'm pretty sure there are plenty proffesional reviewers that hated it as much as most of the general public.

60 for movies on metacritic is above average. 61 is what's considered good for movies, not 70.

On top of that, 73% of critics recommend the movie. 

Nope in the american grading system 60-69 is equivalent to a D which I wouldn't consider a good grade.

Also here is very short review from a pretty well known professional movie critic that hated it as much as most people did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpujmRPzMO4



Chris Hu said:
Lawlight said:

60 for movies on metacritic is above average. 61 is what's considered good for movies, not 70.

On top of that, 73% of critics recommend the movie. 

Nope in the american grading system 60-69 is equivalent to a D which I wouldn't consider a good grade.

Also here is very short review from a pretty well known professional movie critic that hated it as much as most people did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpujmRPzMO4

It is? I thought 50-59 was a D, and 60-69 was a C?



Chris Hu said:
bigjon said:

Right winger? I guess if you have to resort to name calling you have no legitimate response. 

Also I was reffering more to things they people themselves are doing. It distracts from their product. See Johnney Depp as a good recent example. 

They have every right to spout off stupid shit but I just wish they wouldn't because it distracts from the product. Michael Jordan had/has it right. He was once asked why he does not make political statements and his response was "Republicans buy shoes too" 

 

 

 

Well its right wingers for the most part that try to make everything political.  Even if entertainers make policital  statements once in while movies for the most part aren't political and politics have nothing to do with how well a movie does at the box office.  

Nopes. The left are who makes everything about politics. Apocalypse grabbed Mystique by the throat - sexism, patriarchy, etc.



Chris Hu said:
Lawlight said:

60 for movies on metacritic is above average. 61 is what's considered good for movies, not 70.

On top of that, 73% of critics recommend the movie. 

Nope in the american grading system 60-69 is equivalent to a D which I wouldn't consider a good grade.

Also here is very short review from a pretty well known professional movie critic that hated it as much as most people did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpujmRPzMO4

Metacritc isn't school. There definition of a good movie is 61+. Otherwise, Deadpool is a D movie.



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Lawlight said:
Chris Hu said:

Nope in the american grading system 60-69 is equivalent to a D which I wouldn't consider a good grade.

Also here is very short review from a pretty well known professional movie critic that hated it as much as most people did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpujmRPzMO4

Metacritc isn't school. There definition of a good movie is 61+. Otherwise, Deadpool is a D movie.

Nope, a good movie is 70 or higher, 60-69 is average or mediocre but closer to being bad then good.



Lawlight said:
Chris Hu said:

Well its right wingers for the most part that try to make everything political.  Even if entertainers make policital  statements once in while movies for the most part aren't political and politics have nothing to do with how well a movie does at the box office.  

Nopes. The left are who makes everything about politics. Apocalypse grabbed Mystique by the throat - sexism, patriarchy, etc.

Nope, maybe in your world but not in the real world.  The last time somebody had a hissy fit about a movie it was right wingers and Christians because the live action version of Beauty and The Beast had a openly gay character. 



Shadow1980 said:
Chris Hu said:

Nope in the american grading system 60-69 is equivalent to a D which I wouldn't consider a good grade.

Also here is very short review from a pretty well known professional movie critic that hated it as much as most people did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpujmRPzMO4

Remember when review scores used the whole scale and didn't treat them like school grade scales? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Eh I don't think this was ever really the case. 

Even in the early 90s when I used to read EGM, a score of "6" was dissapointing and even a 7 to 8 for a highly hyped game was considered poor depending on context. 



Shadow1980 said:
Chris Hu said:

Nope, a good movie is 70 or higher, 60-69 is average or mediocre but closer to being bad then good.

At least for movies, Metacritic uses the full scale:

Unfortunately, as we can see, for games the minimum requisite score for "mixed/average," "generally favorable," and "universal acclaim" are all higher, inching towards the "Four Point Scale"/school grade system.

Lawlight said:

Nopes. The left are who makes everything about politics. Apocalypse grabbed Mystique by the throat - sexism, patriarchy, etc.

Rose McGowan and a few random nobodies on Twitter ≠ "the left." Apocalypse was clearly the villain anyway, and I think most people regardless of their politices would realize that. There wasn't a mass outrage over that poster, just a few malcontents.

And honestly, both sides complain about pointless shit. "Political correctness" isn't just a liberal/left thing. Plenty of conservatives whine and complain about stuff that offends them, too, probably thinking to themselves "Oh, well my complaints are valid and just, unlike those from the whiny commies."

Well, those few "nobodies" got the billboard removed and Fox Studios to apologize so it wasn't insignificant. The big difference between the pointless outrage from the left and that right is that the left actually have their way. So Political correctness is actually a liberal thing.



Chris Hu said:
Lawlight said:

Nopes. The left are who makes everything about politics. Apocalypse grabbed Mystique by the throat - sexism, patriarchy, etc.

Nope, maybe in your world but not in the real world.  The last time somebody had a hissy fit about a movie it was right wingers and Christians because the live action version of Beauty and The Beast had a openly gay character. 

In the real world, Fox apologised for that poster and removed it. In the real world, nothing happened about that gay character because nobody from the right, other than a handful of people, cared to make a big fuss about it.

In the real world, outrage from the left cancels yoga classes or forces businesses to close due to "cultural appropriation". Or actors to quit roles. Get real, man.