Water Cooler: Project Hail Mary, The Last Stop in Yuma County, Ghosts, A Bigger Splash, and More
/Film Weekly
SlashFilm.com
4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On the July 10, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to.
Jake from Ontario wrote to us on June 30: My question concerns the growing disparity between the TV Critic and audience Tomatometer scores on Rotten Tomatoes. The Boys, The Acolyte, and The Bear all received glowing critics scores and negative audience scores. In a recent episode, Jacob mentioned that although he loved the first three seasons of The Boys, he didn’t enjoy season 4 and passed the review to a colleague who liked it more. This practice caught my attention.
Could you discuss the prevalence and ethics of this practice? Wouldn’t it be good business to publish a negative review when 9.3/10 sites are praising a show? In my opinion, Jacob would have been the perfect person to review this season and represent a large contingent of the audience who isn’t just reacting to the anti-MAGA politics, as some suggest is the reason for the lower audience score. Sorry if this sounds prickly, I’m legitimately curious to hear your thoughts.
PS: Please focus on this specific practice and avoid discussing review-bombing or the binary nature of the Tomatometer, as those topics have been covered well by the podcast in the past.
In the Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Reading:
- Jacob read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, and Challenger by Adam Higginbotham.
- What we’ve been Watching:
- Ben watched The Last Stop in Yuma County, A Bigger Splash, The Paper, and Callaway Went Thataway.
- Jacob watched The Bear season 3, Ghosts, and A Quiet Place: Day One.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily. Today is Wednesday, July 10th, 2024. On today's episode of the show, |
| 0:05.3 | we are going to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what we've been up to. My name is Ben Pearson. I am an editor at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode by |
| 0:13.3 | slash film editor Jacob Hall. Hello hello. |
| 0:15.7 | Jacob before we go any further I want to thank the multitude of listeners who wrote |
| 0:20.0 | in with reactions to the discussion that we had on the podcast about the best way to find things to watch. |
| 0:24.9 | Ryan and I were talking about that earlier and we got a ton of emails about this and I don't have time to read all of them, |
| 0:30.3 | but suffice it to say the two services that were mentioned more than any others were just watch and letterboxed. |
| 0:37.0 | And apparently you can create personalized watch lists on both of those apps and mark down what streaming services you |
| 0:43.9 | subscribe to and filter by genre and things like that and then you can also try to |
| 0:48.9 | like narrow down what you're gonna watch based on the subscription services that you have and all that anyway |
| 0:54.8 | it sounds very nice and easy and like exactly kind of what we were asking for. |
| 0:58.4 | Andrew from Austin also wrote in recommending an app called Q-U-E-U-E, which I've never heard of before, but he says it has a best-in-class user interface, |
| 1:07.6 | so maybe people might be interested in checking that out too. |
| 1:10.2 | I personally have been using Letterboxed a lot this year to log every movie that I've seen in 2024, |
| 1:14.6 | but I've not taken advantage of any of the watch list or other functionality that's there, |
| 1:18.9 | so I need to look into doing that. |
| 1:20.9 | But thank you all for writing in. Jacob, I know we're probably going to be running pretty long on today's episode, but real quick, do you have a method for like, it's Friday night, you sit down on the couch and you're going to watch something, what do you do to like figure out a way to figure out what you're going to watch? |
| 1:38.0 | I'm a simple man, Ben. I have a, uh, on my notes app on my phone, I have a list called to watch and I'll open it and go there's a thing and I'll |
| 1:46.9 | compare to my wife and we'll pick one from that list and the list has things on there |
| 1:51.8 | that have been on there for two or three years and things that were added last week. It just depends on which one we decide to watch. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah, I'm pretty much in the same boat. Okay, well thank you all for writing in. Those emails were super helpful. |
| 2:03.0 | Okay, speaking of emails, Jake from Ontario wrote into us on June 30th and had a question for you specifically, Jacob. |
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