Mr & Mrs Smith

George · Post by **George** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:05 am

Hilarious. Go see it.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 5:20 am

Best movie I've seen in ages.

George · Post by **George** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:15 am

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/ ... index.html

The crowds for "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" were 56 percent female and 57 percent older than 25, segments of the audience that are typically less inclined to rush out to catch a movie on opening weekend.

I noticed this when I went Friday afternoon (opening day). It was really weird how many elderly women were watching what I thought (and still think) was an action movie. Couples in their 60s or 70s and small groups of women of about that age made up half the audience.

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:22 am

I think some women are secretly hot for Angelina

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:34 am

Got 62 on rottentomatoes.com and 55 on metacritic.com. Is it really that good? It'll be sad if I have to stop trusting metacritic.

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:42 am

Got 62 on rottentomatoes.com and 55 on metacritic.com. Is it really that good? It'll be sad if I have to stop trusting metacritic.

George · Post by **George** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:50 am

Well, I enjoyed it, but what do I know?

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:05 am

Dwindlehop wrote:Got 62 on rottentomatoes.com and 55 on metacritic.com. Is it really that good? It'll be sad if I have to stop trusting metacritic.

A movie that everybody kind of likes is not necessarily a good movie. Similarly, a movie that some people hate but other people love is loved by some people, and I might love it. I find a critic whose views align with my own and generally go with that.

I think a neat tool would be to take massive critic databases, have users enter some movie preferences, and use this information to find the closest critic. Better yet, this information could be fed back into the database: every user could be treated like a critic. I guess Amazon does similar things with "People who buy x also buy", but multiple variables should increase accuracy.

George · Post by **George** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:47 pm

I suggested the same thing for music and for the distributed MMORPG engine a while ago. It does seem to be an elegant solution to a lot of problems.