Love 'em, hate 'em, ignore them ?
I read some reviews - mainly Detroit Free Press and News. Usually these guys hardly EVER agree. Free Press likes the more artsy type/foreign films - 3 hours of a guy watching a tree grow. :D Can pin down the critic in the News. He will like movies that I would never see and trash ones that I liked. When they do agree, the flick tends to rate high with other critics. I try to watch At the Movies and still enjoy reading Roger Ebert - who in my opinion is a nerd and should be a member of this forum. Wouldn't that be cool ?
I used to read reviews more and watched Siskel and Ebert all the time back in the day. But now I frankly rarely read a review. I know what I like and want to see and just follow that. I do listen to what friends have to say and people that like the types of things that I enjoy (like most of the people here). But critics just generally don't seem to like what I enjoy. Although, over the last few years I think there must be more "geek critics" because they seem to be liking more and more what I do.
Robert and Ebert (misspelled no doubt) are, in my opinion, the best critics I could listen to. 75% of the time I will agree with them on movies and such. So I guess I don't hate em. However, I will not listen to critics that aren't "official". They tend to be very off and usually their comments are pointless and worthless.
As it will typically go though, I follow Rico's saying. Just go see it if I think I will like it. Works most of the time. :)
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I read (religiously) Total Film magazine and Empire magazine here in England but i do not take much notice of the actual reviews because if i want to see a film then i'll go and see it. It's nice to see what a reviewer says then when the DVD review comes out see what the same reviewer says. Normal its the opposite.
Quote from: Rico on July 24, 2008, 06:00:22 AM
I used to read reviews more and watched Siskel and Ebert all the time back in the day. But now I frankly rarely read a review. I know what I like and want to see and just follow that. I do listen to what friends have to say and people that like the types of things that I enjoy (like most of the people here). But critics just generally don't seem to like what I enjoy. Although, over the last few years I think there must be more "geek critics" because they seem to be liking more and more what I do.
But you could have read a review of Mist and saved all that aggravation. :D
I find Roger Ebert and I tend to like the same movies.
Normally I have my mind made up if I will see a movie or not, and usually do not base any of my decision based off of Movie Critics.
I do like reading Roger Eberts reviews, as I agree with him most of the time on what he says, and he seems to review movies from a more realistic point of view, in terms of will most people enjoy it or not.
Critics shmitics. heh
I never listen or read what they have to say. I much rather go with some friend's recomendation because we may have similar points of view.
Critics tend to hate movies or to recomend boring as hell crap. heh
I also search for what people have to say on forums and blogs.
Though I like art cinema, I also enjoy mindless explotions and action flicks. So I mostly use common sense and word of mouth for picking movies to watch.