Critics' Reviews
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Critics' Reviews
When you decide whether or not you're going to see a particular movie, how affected are you by what the critics say?
Do you rely completely on the review?
Or, do you prefer to make your own decision based on what the movie is about?
Something else?
I'm more toward the second statement. I hardly read critics' reviews anymore--they seem to be too biased. I decide based on an objective synopsis of the movie to decide whether or not I'm going to see it. If I like the synopsis, I'll go see it.
How about you?
Do you rely completely on the review?
Or, do you prefer to make your own decision based on what the movie is about?
Something else?
I'm more toward the second statement. I hardly read critics' reviews anymore--they seem to be too biased. I decide based on an objective synopsis of the movie to decide whether or not I'm going to see it. If I like the synopsis, I'll go see it.
How about you?
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Critics' opinions are no more valid than anyone else's. I never pay attention to them, and, like Teaos, rely on friends' opinions. Or I just go see it and make up my own mind. Of course, I get to see films for free, so I can go without gambling $8-10.
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I agree. Critics look for particular artistic values, which may or may not be relevant. I saw the film version of Ghost Rider, for example, to see a guy with a flaming skull for a head (and because I read the comic as a little kid,) not to see a literary rival of Zefferelli's Othello.
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There is a movie reviewer on the local news station. She does 2 movies a week. Usually the ones she says are crap are the ones I enjoy the most.
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I tend to read/listen to a selection of critics, whose preferences I am fairly familiar with.
I am not a fan of amateur critics, who with the internet are supposed to have made the professionals obsolete. Five or six of my former work colleagues told me that the Da Vinci Code was the best book ever written, for example. (Three of them bought into Brown's "theories" hook line and sinker) The thing is that it was also one of the few, if not the only, book they had ever read without been forced to at school.
I like my critics to be able to draw on the experience of seeing countless films, to spot influences from other films, and understand the language of cinema, rather than just tell me it's long and boring, or full of great explosions.
I am not a fan of amateur critics, who with the internet are supposed to have made the professionals obsolete. Five or six of my former work colleagues told me that the Da Vinci Code was the best book ever written, for example. (Three of them bought into Brown's "theories" hook line and sinker) The thing is that it was also one of the few, if not the only, book they had ever read without been forced to at school.
I like my critics to be able to draw on the experience of seeing countless films, to spot influences from other films, and understand the language of cinema, rather than just tell me it's long and boring, or full of great explosions.
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I never really bother with critics. That's pretty much like walking up to some random guy on a street and asking what he thinks of a film. The only difference is that this guy gets paid to complain about them.
I usualy ask my friends what they think of it.
I usualy ask my friends what they think of it.
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You're right about that kind of criterion - Since I have (with books, at least) that kind of experience myself, I rarely feel the need to resort to a "professional" critic.Enkidu wrote:I tend to read/listen to a selection of critics, whose preferences I am fairly familiar with.
I am not a fan of amateur critics, who with the internet are supposed to have made the professionals obsolete. Five or six of my former work colleagues told me that the Da Vinci Code was the best book ever written, for example. (Three of them bought into Brown's "theories" hook line and sinker) The thing is that it was also one of the few, if not the only, book they had ever read without been forced to at school.
I like my critics to be able to draw on the experience of seeing countless films, to spot influences from other films, and understand the language of cinema, rather than just tell me it's long and boring, or full of great explosions.
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
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I dont really trust my local critics, since they're eager to shoot down any new blockbusters comming out, but rank "A Heartwarming tale of a trio of Llama famers battling poverty in peru" To be one of the best movies ever made.
Seriously.
Oh, also, they tried to read too much into Rocky Horror, which is just inexcusable Saw it live, it was AWSOME.
Seriously.
Oh, also, they tried to read too much into Rocky Horror, which is just inexcusable Saw it live, it was AWSOME.
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