{"id":25234,"date":"2022-12-18T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=25234"},"modified":"2022-12-18T08:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T13:53:21","slug":"the-banshees-of-inisherin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=25234","title":{"rendered":"The Banshees of Inisherin"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2373\" height=\"1602\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/inisherin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/inisherin.jpg 2373w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/inisherin-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/inisherin-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/inisherin-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/inisherin-2048x1383.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I should have known better. When Rotten Tomatoes shows high critic ratings (97 percent in this case) but much lower audience ratings (76 percent), that&#8217;s a red flag for me. I almost always agree with the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Why would a filmmaker waste a superb cast and beautiful settings on a meaningless and depressing story that is not worth telling? I&#8217;ll answer my own question: It&#8217;s because critics are bored. They fall for well-made films with nihilistic themes that can cut through their jaded hides. Critics are rarely in it for the story. They&#8217;re in it for the filmmaking.<\/p>\n<p>As long as made-for-critics films like this scoop up the awards, filmmakers will keep making them. What a waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have known better. When Rotten Tomatoes shows high critic ratings (97 percent in this case) but much lower audience ratings (76 percent), that&#8217;s a red flag for me. I almost always agree with the audience. Why would a filmmaker waste a superb cast and beautiful settings on a meaningless and depressing story that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=25234\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Banshees of Inisherin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25234"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25241,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25234\/revisions\/25241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}