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Podcast Appearances
That is their job.
But what I thought was interesting is they talked a lot in this episode about the psychology of people who did like the film.
So not only did they say, hey, this film sucked because the story sucked and the acting sucked and the whatever.
But if you like it, you're a bad person.
Exactly.
If you like it.
In particular, they thought that people who liked it hated women and were very sick people.
And it shocked me because these were two, again, like of the best film critics in the world.
And they couldn't separate their personal viewpoint of what they thought of the people who liked the films from just rating and critiquing the film itself.
And so I thought, OK, this has to be studied.
Right.
I know one of those guys passed away decades ago.
Gene Siskel passed away, I think.
before Roger Ebert.
And Roger Ebert passed away in the past maybe decade or so.
It's a whole thing.
I thought the same kind of thing, like maybe times have changed.
That was like four years ago, right?
That was the rise of the women's movement.
And maybe they thought, okay, maybe this is a counter to that.