Was without my antidepressants for a little while- roughly half a week- but I was finally able to get them to refill it! The first day back on it was… particularly weird. Was pretty dizzy and sleepy *often* but I’m on day 2 and feeling pretty good again so that’s nice.

That was yesterday.

Today, I’m listening to a live reading a various movie critic reviews of the new Super Mario Bros. Movie on Metacritic and I think it’s more evident than ever that establishment hollywood and establishment movie critics are functionally worthless for the *vast* majority of movie goers when they go on and on at length about why they dislike movies, but those points completely miss the intended purpose and target audience of the movie. Like, there’s opinions ranging from “where is the satire” to “they ruined Peach” to “it’s too much like the games” and I’m like. Literally did any of you actually *like* Mario to understand *why* this movie is what it is?

It really does help contextualize why there are so many abysmal and nonsensical movie adaptations of other things: The people who try to break into movies by trying to appease establishment critics completely miss the mindset of actual normal people who wanted to see these things become movies in the first place. And the movies that make a point to appeal to long time fans or even new fans of the base IP do *fantastic* with the target audience but establishment critics scream and wail about how the movies aren’t new or novel or something *different* than the thing it was supposed to be trying to be in the first place.

If that is going to be what the establishment movie critics continue to do, I see no reason for their job to exist. Which I realize is rude, and I *know* there are some actual movie critics who understand the target audience and do good efforts to keep that in mind when do their review/criticisms, but it’s going to take a lot more than just a couple of good people to un-spoil the reputation of a years long role that exists for a misleading purpose: stoke the egos of the establishment under guise of “helpful reviews to guide consumer decision-making”.