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Post by jordandan53 on Mar 7, 2017 21:59:17 GMT
I tend not to read reviews before I see a movie, I do like to look at metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes just to see the overall consensus, but generally if I wanna see a movie I'm gonna see it. If it's a movie I'm meh on and the consensus comes back negative I'll probably skip it in theaters.
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Post by spiralstatic on Mar 8, 2017 18:26:30 GMT
I seldom read a review of a film before I've seen the film. If a film is good, it is almost always better if you know less/nothing at all. I might occasionally look at reviews if I'm not sure if I want to see a film or not: but it is always to try to get an idea of how I might feel about the film. I don't read reviews because I believe any critic's thoughts are truth: they're not! They are mere subjective opinion. You get a general idea when films have a lot of buzz/critical positivity without reading reviews of course and something with a lot of buzz is likely to make me want to see it more, but it has no impact on what I think of the film when I watch it. If anything it adversely affects my opinion of a film as if there is a lot of buzz I am likely to go to the film expecting a wonderful experience in whatever way, and if I don't feel it it is far more disappointing than a film I'd expected nothing of might be. (Moonlight is a recent example of this effect. It isn't that I thought it was bad, but I really felt very little from it at all which made it seem worse than it is to me because my expectations were sky high.) I get particularly irritated when critics can't talk about a film without referencing 534 other films as though showing off their film knowledge. A review of a film, if for a professional publication, in my view ought to be primarily for the public so it's aim ought to be to let the public understand what they might feel about the film. And it ought not be based on the assumption a reader has seen any other film ever. This is why I loved Roger Ebert so much. It isn't that I always agreed with his opinion on every film. It's that, from what he wrote, whether he liked a film or not, generally I could get some idea whether I might like it. I still sometimes wonder what Ebert might have thought or said about this or that film. In a general sense: the only person's opinion that matters on any thing is your own: never listen to review or the masses and just love what you love say I!
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Post by CookiesNCream on Mar 11, 2017 1:53:39 GMT
Essentially what Viced , Sharbs , jordandan53 , and spiralstatic said. I rarely listen to critics and reviews before a movie and, when I do, I tend to take reviews with a grain of salt. Sites like rotten tomatoes and metacritic represent a collective and subjective consensus on a movie. At most, those purposes are for recommendations. They could serve as good indicators for moviegoers to determine which movies to spend their money. Box office performances can sometime reflect critical reception that way. I could look up some reviews, seek reactions, and such after I saw a film for some perspectives, but I would still hold my own personal opinion. People can’t officially tell me what movies to like or not to like.
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Post by CookiesNCream on Mar 11, 2017 2:21:48 GMT
Truth is that many of the reviewers I trusted the most are gone now. I still like Joe Morgenstern at the Wall Street Journal. Really dislike A.O. Scott.... I don't trust critics when they give raves to things like Sausage Party. I liked critics like Siskel and Ebert. As for Sausage Party... ugh ... tell me about it, and I liked some of Rogen's materials. Those raves for movies like Sausage Party, and the recent Ghostbusters to the lesser extent, seem like jokes. It seem like those critics were being too generous in their acclaims just to appease a certain demographic. One group with an appetite (pun unintended) for mainstream ‘adult’ animation that mustn’t be hold back (even the lowbrow types), and the other group that would likely sent death threats for displaying any kind of misogyny towards a movie. And, of course, those end results by the general audience became an extremely polarizing one. I hear the reception for SP is lukewarm and the wom from some of my friends that saw it have either found it mediocre, disappointing, or outright terrible.
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Post by Real Duality on Mar 11, 2017 3:33:14 GMT
Look at history. Every single masterpiece was hated on by critics when it came out. By their very nature critics are perturbed.
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Post by Film Socialism on Mar 11, 2017 3:43:42 GMT
Look at history. Every single masterpiece was hated on by critics when it came out. By their very nature critics are perturbed. uh i don't think that's true at all lol i mean yeah maybe a critic or two didn't like pretty much everything but there are a number of films with huge acclaim upon premiere that are still lauded as masterpieces today
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Post by Real Duality on Mar 11, 2017 3:47:10 GMT
Look at history. Every single masterpiece was hated on by critics when it came out. By their very nature critics are perturbed. uh i don't think that's true at all lol i mean yeah maybe a critic or two didn't like pretty much everything but there are a number of films with huge acclaim upon premiere that are still lauded as masterpieces today Maybe I exaggerated, but I think most of the true masterpieces are at least divisive when they come out.
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Post by Film Socialism on Mar 11, 2017 3:50:38 GMT
uh i don't think that's true at all lol i mean yeah maybe a critic or two didn't like pretty much everything but there are a number of films with huge acclaim upon premiere that are still lauded as masterpieces today Maybe I exaggerated, but I think most of the true masterpieces are at least divisive when they come out. yeah the non-hyperbolic version is something i would agree with.
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