“Cleopatra is black!” “Ariel is black!” Outraged, as it turned out, many uttered these two phrases, on the one hand, the image of the Ptolemaic queen in the theatrical mini-series of the documentary Netflixon the other hand, for a Disney princess in an upcoming action movie “Mermaid” .

So much rage that quite a few users tried to “crush” it. “Black Cleopatra” and finally give her your “trophy”. lowest rated television title by the public in his history Rotten tomatoes: 2%. V imdb, the series is rated 1.0/10. Of course, not in the way that “official criticism” swept, since in Metacritic, which is receiving rave reviews in the press, its rating at the moment is 45/100 and correspondingly. However, on Rotten Tomatoes, it only reaches 10%

So be it. Obviously this “Queen Cleopatra” it’s not the best thing ever filmed, but i doubt it’s the worst either, and annoyed users didn’t use the rating feature on said sites because Fahrenheit 451 punishment.

Let’s not get into the black hole of whether Cleopatra came from Egypt or Greece and how dark she was or not, because most likely we will end up Adele James has a physique closer to a historical figure than her Elizabeth Taylor or Angelina Jolie, who have played Cleopatra in the past (and after all, I don’t even know how important it is to play this game).

However, this is a kind of microcosm in itself. ranking, rating and ranking in separate systems of such sites / communities that the strength of some terribly well-read “guru” of the seventh art is exactly the same as that of a “passerby” and everyone’s opinion in the end just numbers.

The people judge, punish or punish at will, where will God knows where it comes from and how it is formed. It really is “The Last Stand: Rita Hayworth” best movie ever made? That’s what his sum has been saying for years imdb, what gives the film 9.2/10 a belief that is perpetuated among the site’s frequent visitors – that is, more or less everyone who watches movies in one way or another – and they seem to be coming back to reinforce it. They may even be ready to deify the film even before they see it.

Let’s move on to the other end of the IMDb list, where it is today. “Disaster Movie” (irony) but for years “Manos, hands of fate” (now in second place from the bottom). An otherworldly horror film made for just $19,000 1966 To Harold P. Warren -which hasn’t dabbled in the seventh art since then- but too many have seen decades later because of it. I also think because Quentin Tarantino stated that it was “one of his favorite comedies” of all time and bought an original copy of the film.

confirmation of how “Any advertisement is a good advertisement” another independent kingdom, cult, is in action, seeking out and paying tribute to forgotten, weird, and sometimes bad films. An audience that likes to give a film a 2/10, whose aesthetic is far from the “Oscar films” and auteur cinema. This does not mean that their aesthetic is worse, it just moved away from the mainstream and other definitions of good and evil concepts are related.

If we transport ourselves back to its insides Mailbox, a community far more cinematically suspect than IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes, we’ll see how things change. For app users, The Last Frontier: Rita Hayworth is the tenth best movie of all time by rating. In the first place is the Russian anti-war drama. “Come and see” while in the top ten they feature japanese movies 60s and “The Godfather 2” passes one place in front of him “The Godfather I”. A typical cinephile post in the end, if everything else hasn’t convinced you that people are “running” on Letterboxd.

Where is all this leading us? In that everything is narrative. I know people who will or won’t watch a movie based on its IMDb rating, and others who will blindly follow their favorite reviewer’s opinion and are therefore very likely to play it on their favorite site in turn.

Anyway, the word “film” means something else for his film. John Carpenter and one of his Stanley Kubrick and it’s bad in a different way “Plan 9 from Outer Space” And “Cocktails” (but both are nice). Some will not even agree with this grouping, and that’s fine. Let’s not forget that everyone should be interpreted in its own context and not every movie, every TV series, and every other work of art are points of a linear system. Evaluation is simply a stigma that reflects approach and interpretation.

There are great films, works that will influence the ages, TV shows that are enjoyable, visuals that serve their purpose (which is often just the studio or creator’s purpose), and others that fit none of these. Not everyone interprets everything with the same recruiters, not all major or minor projects evoke the same feelings for everyone. And this goes beyond any theoretical analysis or evaluation, beyond any acceptance of “objectivity”.

Fortunately. Because it is all these subtle nuances that make cinema, television, music magical for our eyes and ears. And this “opposition” is part of the magic. While this does not happen due to the color of the protagonist.