TheFeniX wrote: ↑2017-11-19 07:50pm
The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2017-11-19 06:52pm
I am trying to pay exactly zero attention to critical reviews.
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Also, here is a (probably incomplete) list of movies I very much liked that the internet bandwagon decreed were Bad Movies:
X3 was a total trainwreck ruined by tons of executive meddling among other things. But the point is that there's nothing wrong with liking something bad, but many movie critics do not understand this.
I'd say the point is also that a lot of films that are seen as "bad"
aren't, at least not objectively.
Sure, there are some things I would say are objectively
bad- like if a film had a fascist message or something. But for the most part, it comes down to what the audience enjoys- to personal taste.
I value a well-constructed plot as much as most people, maybe more- but if a film lacks that, but has other elements that I enjoy (as
Batman v Superman does), it can still come out ahead, overall.
That said, I agree with you about most reviewers being garbage. I enjoyed all the other movies you listed, to varying degrees. But many critics focus on one thing: either the technical aspects of the movie or ignore those in favor of the "cool moments" or getting wraped in a a plot so convoluted, they think it's "cerebral." They either can't or won't analyze a movie on multiple levels.
I'd say that there's probably still a degree of genre snobiness towards superhero films in general. I'm just guessing here, but I think Marvel escapes the harshest criticisms in part because its films are usually light and fluffy-sometimes too much so-so it gets point for "not taking itself too seriously", ie, knowing its place as a series of campy, silly genre flicks.
DC's films are in a niche where they are not good enough (or well-promoted enough) to qualify as "great films" like
The Dark Knight, but too serious to fall into "Escapist fun that doesn't take itself too seriously."
I will say, I am way out of the loop now, the annoying "copy and paste" rave reviews of Dark Knight was what completely soured me on movie reviews with the exception of one reviewer. Ebert dieing totally made me fuck off. I don't even bother with them anymore.
This is why, to this day, I always enjoyed reading Ebert even though I rarely agreed with him. He's liked movies that were technical and visual trainwrecks, while ALSO pointing out the problems. And on the flip side, he hates movies that do it "right" but still fail for being uninteresting, among other things.
His review of "Scary Movie" (IMHO) is basically a textbook on how to review a movie. And that movie was a popular punching bag at the time.
Unless a film is clearly, overwhelmingly awful, or there's some reason for me to boycott (I will never pay to see a Polanski film until he croaks, because I do not want to in any way risk financially supporting a fugitive from justice), I generally go with my gut feeling on weather I want to see it, and then try not to judge it harshly until I've seen it. Though I find that it helps to go in without really high expectations, as I'm less likely to be disappointed.
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