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I think Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) said it best in season 2 of Ash Vs. the Evil Dead, something along the lines of, "critics have shitty taste." I blame mos

I think Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) said it best in season 2 of Ash Vs. the Evil Dead, something along the lines of, "critics have shitty taste." I blame mostly the mindset that a job like that can create. A critic/reviewer is often pressured to agree with pop culture in order to have their opinions validated. Movies and music are a good example of this (cough Star Wars cough). Actually look at most critics vs audience aggregations on Rotten Tomatoes or the fact that very few outfits even write music reviews anymore beyond Pitchfork. There are very few outliers in this case and are often viewed as malicious, for example Jim Sterling. I personally never read reviews before I ingest some entertainment I have interest in. At most I read the closing paragraph of a review which is likely to contain no spoilers and sums up the critics opinion. Scores are irrelevant to me as well, I have my own scale.

Mediterraneo10 9y ago
> very few outfits even write music reviews anymore beyond Pitchfork. There’s still enough music-review sites out there that it can sometimes feel like a chore to keep up with them if you have varied tastes covered by each of them. Besides Pitchfork, look at The Quietus, Consequence of Sound, Tiny Mix Tapes, AV Club, Classics Today, La Folia, etc.
ClassyJacket 9y ago
>very few outfits even write music reviews anymore beyond Pitchfork. The is probably a pretty natural result of it now being so easy to simply listen to music you're curious about. Reading a review of an album will take as long as just going to YouTube or Spotify and listening to the first song.
- zelos 9y ago
  On the flip side, for most consumers there are probably several million albums/television series/songs/films a few clicks away. Choosing is still hard.
kenoyer130 9y ago
Roger Ebert said it was due to a Film Critic seeing 2-3 movies a Day. If you are seeing that many movies, you start to yearn for something different and challanging. If you see at most 1-3 movies a month on a good month, you tend to be ok with "just" entertaining movies. Also critics like to see movies that move the artform forward in some way. So while Bright on Netflix is a very servicable by the numbers movie, it is not really doing anything outside the box.

Mediterraneo10 9y ago

> very few outfits even write music reviews anymore beyond Pitchfork. There’s still enough music-review sites out there that it can sometimes feel like a chore to keep up with them if you have varied tastes covered by each of them. Besides Pitchfork, look at The Quietus, Consequence of Sound, Tiny Mix Tapes, AV Club, Classics Today, La Folia, etc.

ClassyJacket 9y ago

>very few outfits even write music reviews anymore beyond Pitchfork. The is probably a pretty natural result of it now being so easy to simply listen to music you're curious about. Reading a review of an album will take as long as just going to YouTube or Spotify and listening to the first song.

zelos 9y ago
On the flip side, for most consumers there are probably several million albums/television series/songs/films a few clicks away. Choosing is still hard.

kenoyer130 9y ago

Roger Ebert said it was due to a Film Critic seeing 2-3 movies a Day. If you are seeing that many movies, you start to yearn for something different and challanging. If you see at most 1-3 movies a month on a good month, you tend to be ok with "just" entertaining movies. Also critics like to see movies that move the artform forward in some way. So while Bright on Netflix is a very servicable by the numbers movie, it is not really doing anything outside the box.