I read film reviews when I'm in trying to get the gist of a film. Often times I have no goddamn clue what a movie is about. Like Wall-E for instance, the trailers and previews looked like a long toy commercial, so I read a few reviews and heard there was substantial story behind it, still haven't watched it though, seemed uninteresting to me.
However, film critics... I despise them, most sound like their opinions are suppose to matter to everyone, and yes, some do listen to them. I rather experience and form my own opinion, than listen to another's.
I often like hearing how a movie was from a friend's perspective, it makes it fun to talk about a movie amongst friends or family and then form an opinion based on their words, I prefer that over a movie critic.
I like Kermode when it comes to the field of Horror, I can't think of any names as I don't have any favourites, I do like reviews of films in magazines like Sight & Sound though.
I hate Kermode with a passion. The man is everything i hate in a human being. Ironically though, I agree with his taste in films for the most part. It's just that him and his Newsnight review cronies come across at snobs of the highest order.
Fair enough. I usually read them when I know that my friends (some of them) won't like them, like 'burn after reading' for example, none of the people I watched it liked it--apart from me.
Out of curiousity, I go to rottentomatoes for a consensus, most of the time if a movie sucks, it will be reflected accurately by their percentages (or if it's amazingly good) Sometimes, however, films I love will get bad reviews, etc. so I never rely solely on reviews. Also, I frequent slashfilm and listen to their weekly podcast, which is very entertaining and fairly agreeable.
haha, umm, of course they are all biased and I don't agree with everything that Ebert says(he gave fightclub, clockwork orange and full metal jacket bad reviews), but when we end up agreeing with something, he's brilliant.
The newspaper that is local around where I live, has a movies column that even I used to work for writing film reviews. They still do a good job of reviewing films without spoiling much, and not drilling into gossip. I read them when I don't know what a movie is about, and them watch the film myself.
Hello does anyone else hate those 2 critics that replaced ebert and roeper, and are on the show on sundays "at the movies"
They suck, they both said see quantum of solice, and then they pan it for being boring and slow and the action sequences are too close. to me that says skip it.
the 26 year old says to see terminator salvation (fine)
and then the 43 year old says to skip it cause it wasn't made like star trek for everyone to try and get into it and they are using references to the terminator movies that came out in 1984 and 1991 well duh it is a sequal.
They really grind my gears.
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