I wish Rotten Tomatoes would let you select for the time a movie was released

Odradek

So you could go back and see, for instance, The Thing at 60% or whatever

It would put things in context

Anonus

This sounds incredibly useful

It makes me think of how we view Hummer as a "failed business venture" now even though ten years ago the fucking things were everywhere

Tatterhood

Anonus said:

It makes me think of how we view Hummer as a "failed business venture" now even though ten years ago the fucking things were everywhere

I remember I once found a book in my high school library about the failure of apple and how it was a a cautionary tale for future tech companies

this came out about a year before the ipod

Anonus

oh my god

Anonus

i mean that's even funnier given how my mother indoctrinated me into the Cult of Mac before there were even iPods but still

Sredni Vashtar

My parents had stock in Apple from the '80s.

LOAD Cherry

We were a macintosh house before iPod, and my mother continues to work on Mac

Section42L

Rotten Tomatoes really should just put a freeze on adding new reviews to its pages after a certain point.

If it wants to monitor how critical tastes in movies change over time, there can be an option for that too, but it shouldn't be the default.

lee4hmz

Christmas said:

Anonus said:

It makes me think of how we view Hummer as a "failed business venture" now even though ten years ago the fucking things were everywhere

I remember I once found a book in my high school library about the failure of apple and how it was a a cautionary tale for future tech companies

this came out about a year before the ipod

I wonder if whoever wrote that even knew about the iMac. (They probably dismissed it as "not a real computer" due to it not being a purpose-built gaming PC. :P)

Tatterhood

lee4hmz said:

Christmas said:

Anonus said:

It makes me think of how we view Hummer as a "failed business venture" now even though ten years ago the fucking things were everywhere

I remember I once found a book in my high school library about the failure of apple and how it was a a cautionary tale for future tech companies

this came out about a year before the ipod

I wonder if whoever wrote that even knew about the iMac. (They probably dismissed it as "not a real computer" due to it not being a purpose-built gaming PC. :P)

I mean I guess the iMac would've existed at that point but it didn't exactly take over the world.

Though honestly yeah, even before the iPad but them back on the map I don't know if calling Apple a "failure" is really fair.

Princess Alice

Apple of the 1990s was arguably a "failure".

Everything after they bought NeXT and got Jobs back though...that's a different thing.

lee4hmz

The beige Macs of the 1990s are weird and temperamental. They do a good job of reflecting the chaos at Apple at the time.

Princess Alice

From a goon in the IT thread:

Tatterhood

lee4hmz said:

The beige Macs of the 1990s are weird and temperamental. They do a good job of reflecting the chaos at Apple at the time.

We had one of those in my classroom in elementary school. Alongside a couple of iMacs. There was something very depressing about it.

lee4hmz

Even the early Power Macs felt kind of like an unfinished product (they were, by and large, based on existing 68k designs), and it wasn't until the iMac and the Blue and White G3 came out that the PowerPC Mac really had its own identity.

Princess Alice

the early Power Macs got all wet

they're completely useless now

lee4hmz

BWEEEEEEEEEEEEEE