Category: Behind the Scenes at RunPee
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The Dumb Movies – How films earn D grades at RunPee
Here we are near the very bottom of the barrel, after detailed discussion of our A, B, and C range ratings. What films rate the “dumb” D grades at RunPee? How many movies are this bad…and what makes them suck? Just to be clear, a D grade is a FAIL, movie-wise, because you pay money…
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We’re Adding Classic Movies to the RunPee Database
Because of Covid19 there aren’t any new blockbusters being released in theaters right now, but there’s plenty of old classic movies that we can rewatch and add to the RunPee database. We’d love it if you fired up the RunPee app to check out our Peetimes and let us know what you think of our…
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How movies get C Grades at RunPee
To start with: a C grade isn’t considered a bad movie. It’s just not a good one. It’s average. It can be mediocre, vanilla, fluffy, lightweight, ponderous — or most condemning of all: boring. But in all, these are watchable films. And since every movie is somebody’s favorite, we try to look for the positive…
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Our farewell message to RunPee fans on Facebook
RunPee will survive covid just fine. We’ll be back to work adding Peetimes as soon as theaters are open and new movies are released. However, our relationship with Facebook is over. This is a sad message to deliver but we are in the process of phasing out our RunPee account with Facebook in response…
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The validity of movie rating systems
I hope everyone knows you can’t trust any statistics someone gives you if they’re trying to sell you something. Whether it’s the criminally inaccurate graphs that frequent a FOX News story or “4 out of 5 dentists” recommend Brand X toothpaste. Numbers don’t lie, but people… They lie all the time by manipulating those numbers.…
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What makes a B grade movie rank at RunPee (using the Rock as an example)
We’ve discussed movie reviews in the A range at RunPee before, but what about those Bs? To be clear, we consider a B movie as good to very good. But then what do we look for in a B film? B+ movies A B+ movie grade is for very good films. We dicker and dither…
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How movies earn an A Grade at RunPee
We consider an A, any A, from – to +, to be the best a movie in its genre has to offer. And while we sometimes — especially in long-running franchises — grade on a curve, we believe an A movie fulfills our expectations of a feature film of its type. So while all movies…
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter 10th edition (May 20th, 2020)
The app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. A New Hope: Thor Director Taika Waititi Tapped to Fix Star Wars Combine the best of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the potential of stories to be told in the Star Wars…
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RunPee Family CoVid-19 update
Here at RunPee HQ in Asheville, North Carolina we (Dan, Vera, and RunPee Mom) are all doing well. We don’t have movies to go to so, we only need to leave the house about once every 10 days to refresh supplies. For the most part our daily routine hasn’t changed all that much. Vera and…
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Weekly Peeple’s Poll Results for February 03, 2020
It wasn’t a good week for new movies. The two movies that opened this week — The Rhythm Section, and Gretel & Hansel — both failed to meet their low expectations. (Ouch!) But in good news: we finally added the movie Parasite to the database this week. It had been in select theaters for over a month, but we…
