Watchmen

*Spitfire* · 12-31-2008, 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by The Ninjinister

I'm not saying this is one of those cases, but a lot of my favorite shows and/or movies get bad reviews and ratings from the critics and public because the plot actually takes some brain power to comprehend. It pisses me off to no end, that I keep hearing terrible things about cleverly written media, or said media is canceled, because the world at large refuses to use their gray matter when watching something.

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You've never seen a single independent film in your entire life have you? You want to see intelligence being mocked look at the box office totals every weekend. Normally, not always of course, the most intellectually devoid movie takes the weekend and the amazing films are all shoved into limited release where only a few theaters show them. "The Wrestler" is a great example of that. It got stellar reviews but I can't see it because only one theater is playing it and it's 100 miles away from me. "Slum Dog" is an amazing movie and it just hit wide but still no ones really going to see it.

Critics watch a lot of movies, a lot more then you and most people. It's their job to nit pick and point out what's wrong with something. I use RT to gauge what my expectations are before I go into a movie. Honestly it's never steered me wrong. More often then not when a movie has lower then a 70% on RT I end up not liking it. Sometimes I check it out before I go see it and sometimes I wait till after to see if I'm alone in thinking it wasn't very good.

Problem for awhile was everything was average. Yeah the movie wasn't that bad but it wasn't grabbing me either. There are thousands of films out there so wasting my time on one that's just "okay" when there's tons that are stellar seems like a waste. Lately though things have been bad and in the last few months nothing really good has come out that's major. In fact the last several good movies I've seen were limited releases.

I don't let critics tell me what's good and what's not. I let them guide me if I'm really unsure cause some I normally agree with. There are cases where stuff I like has gotten bad reviews, like the last few Dirty Harry movies, and cases where I like something but I can see why critics ripped it apart.