• Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Do critical critics exist anymore? I feel like I haven’t seen a good pan in ages. Maybe when Cats came out, but everyone dog piled that one.

    • kronisk @lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      The Pitchfork review of Jet’s album “Shine On” was just an embedded video of a chimp pissing in its own mouth and a 0.0/10 score. That was 2006.

      • AlataOrange@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Counterpoint there has been a measurable decrease in quality of most forms of media as more and more stuff are soulless cash grabs. It used to be that games shipped completed, now they ship broken cost more and expect you to pump even more money into them on top of that. The last move I saw that I cared about was Dune. Many of the restaurants near me have reduced their quality of ingredients and staff, now when going to the nearby sandwich shop my order is wrong more often than it is correct.

        What do we do when the world is measurably becoming worse?

        • potustheplant@feddit.nl
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          9 months ago

          Although mainstream media might be worse, there are stil lots of movies and series that are pretty high quality being released every year.

          • AlataOrange@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            1. What movies would you recommend that have come out since Dune as that is the last movie I have been able to care about at all? This isn’t meant to be read as sarcastic, I’m being completely sincere I would like recommendations.

            2. I’m not going to lie I just don’t trust non-indie series any more. I can’t trust them to not be arbitrarily cancelled part way through, or to be ruined after one or two seasons. There are too many burnt bridges and broken promises.

            • potustheplant@feddit.nl
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              9 months ago

              1. Movies: Marcel the shell with shoes on, the worst person in the world, past lives, aftersun, everything everywhere all at once, the banshees of inisherin, licorice pizza, beau is afraid and I’m surely forgetting several others.

              2. For recent series, I can recommend: Severance, Atlanta, Scavengers reign, Fleishman is in trouble