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Just out of curiosity recently, I looked up some of the best films ever on RT, to see if they all have 100% from critics.

Bicycle thieves [arguably the best film ever(it is amazing and does seems to top quite few best film ever lists)] does not have 100%!! David Jenkins writing for Time-Out decided to be an edge-lord hipster extraordinaire and give it a thumbs down. Just thought that was funny. The audience scores seem to be a lot more trustworthy than the reviewer ones on RT anyway, there is a lot of talk going around anyway about how Sony for example are getting 100% by letting certain 'reviewers' review the film on RT before any other reviewers.

Link to RLM guys discussing this

https://youtu.be/_HrR5X72_LM?t=9m2s

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Also personally. I dont get why anyone would go to the cinema. Be at their location at a time not of your choosing, pay through the nose, get price gouged for shitty food, be subjected to 10 minutes of ads, in order to watch a mediocre film on a super-loud boomy system with terrible audio balance, in a noisy room filled with potential assholes who may block your view / break your immersion, and also you cant pause the film at any point to piss.

RunPee is a great app that gives you good times to leave for 3-6 minutes to go pee. But yes, it's a problem, and while RunPee is a solution, it's an awkward solution.

Also personally. I dont get why anyone would go to the cinema.

Some films are still better on a very big screen - I've watched Apocalypse Now on TV and then on my local film museum, which has a cinema, and it was totally worth it.

They are also cheap, don't have food, don't show ads, show good films instead of just what's new, and attract a respectful audience :)

Indeed, some films are better on the "big screen" than on a television. But that's a good reason to get an HD projector, not go to the cinema.

I've had a projector for nearly five years now, and I have never once missed going to the cinema. Instead of going out to a rather dingy venue, paying for a ticket, and having to share the space with other people who may not act respectfully of others, I can just torrent Blu-ray images for free and enjoy them in the comfort of my own home.

Gotta have big empty walls to use a projector. Some of us live in small apartments :)

You don’t have to have empty walls: decent screens are cheap (mine cost somewhere around 125€). And if I could long enjoy a big projector screen in a typical Eastern European socialist-era flat, I’m sure many others here could, too.

For the price of a good HD projector and decent surround sound system I can buy a hell of a lot of movie tickets.

How many products do you buy from Amazon that have a perfect 5 stars? 98% is effectively the same as 100%.

> 10 minutes of ads

The last couple of times I've gone to the movies the ads total over 20 minutes if you include the previews for other films! It's absurd.

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