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I long ago swore off taking overall consensus as a good measure of anything. People are, in general, dumb, and that goes doubly so for anything that requires an iota of attention.
Also, letting other people decide for me what's good and what's not is just ridiculous. We can like what we like and that's fine.
The typical experience when you like horror movies... When horror movies get even slightly a better rating, they are often called "Mystery Thriller" or something else, just to avoid the Horror tag. Because somehow it's the law with movie critics that horror must have low rating.
fully agree, ratings don't seem to be jack to the actual movie content.
I actually enjoy reviews more when they disagree with me, sometimes I can even see where they are coming from (sometimes they kinda sound silly), but whatever they didn't like / did like is just not important for me.
but it kinda improves my movie experience, same feeling as when I go with friends to see a movie and we exchange opinions but when I watch them alone.
Very rarely a review has changed my opinion, but sometimes it showed me cool stuff, like the movie avatar tlab was "okay", but the bad reviews actually showed me how awesome the show was in comparison.
I watched the american version of solaris without knowing anything about it and I really love it. Then I looked it up online and it seems many people hate that movie which kinda surprised me but whatever I still like that movie.
Also I love the Silent Hill movie.
The Silent Hill movie and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are two movies I like that are always shit on when I see them mentioned. (Silent Hill Revelation was awful, though)
Sometimes hearing what other people think about a movie will give me a different perspective. Either better or worse.
This was Mortal Kombat Annihilation for me. It's been listed as one of the worst movie ever but I absolutely enjoyed as a kid and I still do.
Office Space, Waterworld, Super Mario Bros., all legendary movies, none did well at the box office. I've got a running theory that anything Dennis Hopper is in has a significant chance to become a cult classic.
Waterworld is a god damn good movie and I'll happily die on that hill!
Super Mario Bros would have been regarded as a decent sci-fi if it didn't have the Super Mario name slapped on it.
Office space has my all time favourite subplot in a movie.
That ends my lunch break movie review.
Be kind, rewind.
Not a movie, but for me this is Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2. The music, locations, voice acting and UI (visual and audio) are fantastic, while the gameplay and story were okay enough to not drag it all down. I still listen to the soundtrack and think about how smooth the menus were.
Meanwhile to the FF fandom these games are Satan shitting down your neck
I have the opposite effect, popular movies seem bad to me, for the most part.
Literally (ok, not literally) every black movie that I think is a classic has like 30% on Rotton Tomatoes
The Flash (2023) was a good movie, and there's nothing you can say to change my mind.
In high school, we had a movie review section in our student newspaper. The one time I read it was because they reviewed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. They said it was awful and Carey was boring. Haven’t taken media reviews seriously since.
Not me, it's like my superpower. I can tell you if a movie is going to be a flop and panned by everyone within 15 seconds of watching the trailer.
I dont really watch movies because my attention span cannot focus on them, but all the books, all the video games, music, everything I'm into is everything that's considered bad. I try not to talk about pop culture because I'm completely ignorant about main stream stuff and I don't want to argue about why I like what I like. I hate being asked about myself because I spend most of my time with work and school and my very little free time reading, gaming and listening to music, but I don't want to talk about what I've been doing because I just don't want to defend myself or talk about why I like something. And even with some of the more popular stuff I like, I just want to enjoy it, I don't want to analyze it.