Hey, everyone.

This is the outlaw, John Roca with Steve Morris, hello, and we are doing one of our kind

of live previews here for the live show that's happening this week for PMPT this Friday.

And the topic for our live show is critics versus fans.

The debate has heated up again after Shazam and Ant-Man 3 and recently A.O. Scott of the

New York Times.

A critic that I personally loved and read for numerous years at the New York Times.

He has retired as a film critic to go back to being a food critic and walked away from this

because, in part, of the rabbit toxicity of fandoms.

So Steve and I are going to have a discussion about whether film criticism is dying.

I can't wait to have this conversation because I think, because in a way like what you and

I have been doing for the last seven years is film criticism on a deep level.

So I think there's a lot to say and you know how I feel about the toxicity I see out

there in the world and I'm really looking forward to this conversation on Friday.

I agree because it's something that I'm intimately connected to as I know many people who

are critics, legitimately strong critics.

I am still somewhat of a new critic but seeing a lot of them struggle with some of the interactions

with the fandoms, some of the, from all kinds, I'm not even selecting any just all across

the board, any fandom, the toxicity they encounter when they don't like a movie and then

seeing critics and punnets step forward and say ignore the critics.

The same people who are in the sphere with these critics saying ignore the critics, go

and see these movies.

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