Feb 15, 2017

Film criticism is at an all time low

 

Feb 15, 2017

Conjuring 2 is pretty well received but they said you'll die if you watch it or some s---, I think its bs.. however i didnt watch any of those yet but I'll check

 

Feb 15, 2017

Papadook is a f---ing great Auss horror movie

 

Feb 15, 2017

It Follows is a masterwork.

Starry Eyes & The Conjuring 2 are rly great.

 

Feb 15, 2017

Haven't seen Don't Breathe yet tbh.

You should peep Rob Zombie's 31, bes horror in a minute.

 

Feb 15, 2017

Yeah that's a great example of why you rly can't depend on either critics or casual viewers cause they hardly ever know what they're talking about. I'm not trying to say my opinion is right or better, but I feel a person with a more open mind and sensibility to film can appreciate things a lot more. It's one thing to watch movies for entertainment or write about them academically and it's another to make them yourself and actually know what goes into it all.

Basically don't listen to anyone and just watch things to form your own opinion cause you never know what could be great.

 

Feb 15, 2017

opinions vary from person to person

so i'd assume you will occasionally have these seemingly 'odd' splits, but it's only really noticeable because we place such an emphasis on critics opinions vs regular people, even though neither is offering anything different.

 

Feb 15, 2017

Just like with any other kind of critic, movie critics could be influenced by all sorts of factors. I prefer scanning fan reviews on Amazon or Rotten Tomatoes. I feel like I get a better idea of the film and how people are perceiving it. Like with Hip Hop, there are a lot of s-----y critics out there.

 

Feb 15, 2017

Find some horror specific critics. Pretty niche genre. Also, don't obsess over numbers that are the result of aggregation. They're a helpful, convenient overview if you wanna peep something, but they're not explanatory in reverse. On a critical level, I'd call a lot of Friday the 13th movies laughable s---. I still enjoy them all the same. They're incidentally hilarious, tonally inconsistent, brutal, absurd, silly, etc. A beautiful trainwreck. I can point to critically valuable things like witnessing a franchise shift creative hands so often and how that transforms the material or what constitutes a "mean k---" versus an "earned k---" in the horror genre, etc, but I don't need those arguments to defend my appreciation of them. I'd rather rather watch a s-----y 80s camp slasher any day than let a universally lauded snore-teur like Alexander Sokurov put me to sleep.

 

Feb 18, 2017

Most fans don't know how to critique film. Not saying critics are perfect but they put more thought into their opinions. Of course, this is really only for film. In a medium like video games, it can be an entirely different story. It's much more balanced. There have been plenty of games in which I've played that critics have hated but I enjoyed. And the only reason I played those games was because of the user reviews. In film, that rarely happens for me, if ever.