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But now I think about it also as someone who's made movies and friends who have made movies and that the increasing reliance on not just the public but institutions of these aggregated Rotten Tomatoes scores and to an extent Letterboxd scores.

I feel like Letterboxd for a while was a little bit more honest and wonderful.

Because I was mostly interested in what individuals think.

The average is... aren't that important to me on Letterboxd.

I like knowing what my few friends that I follow have to say.

Well, this brings me to back in the day, before all of this algorithm bullshit, right? Back in the day, we had in the newspaper...

On Fridays

only.

Right.

It gave you the star rating.

In the

previous section of the Montreal Gazette, and there were two guys principally when we were kids.

There was Bill Brownstein.

Right.

And then

there was another dude.

Okay.

And they were giving us...

I tended to agree more with

the other dude.

Okay, fair.

But then the other was Roger Ebert.

Yeah, thumbs

up and thumbs down.

Also very idiosyncratic, those guys.

But now I think about it also as someone who's made movies and friends who have made movies and that the increasing reliance on not just the public but institutions of these aggregated Rotten Tomatoes scores and to an extent Letterboxd scores.

I feel like Letterboxd for a while was a little bit more honest and wonderful.

Because I was mostly interested in what individuals think.

The average is... aren't that important to me on Letterboxd.

I like knowing what my few friends that I follow have to say.

Well, this brings me to back in the day, before all of this algorithm bullshit, right? Back in the day, we had in the newspaper...

On Fridays

only.

Right.

It gave you the star rating.

In the

previous section of the Montreal Gazette, and there were two guys principally when we were kids.

There was Bill Brownstein.

Right.

And then

there was another dude.

Okay.

And they were giving us...

I tended to agree more with

the other dude.

Okay, fair.

But then the other was Roger Ebert.

Yeah, thumbs

up and thumbs down.

Also very idiosyncratic, those guys.