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I have a close friend who has absolutely no taste in movies. He likes everything! I've learned to stop listening to his feedback for movies, because it could be the worst movie ever made and he's like "wow, that was such an amazing experience!". I kind of envy his state of ignorant bliss.
I want to be that way. It seems like a more pleasant way to experience everything, like how kids do.
I started to make a conscious effort to do this for the media I consume. I've noticed I've been a far less negative person in general since I started doing that.
The secret is mostly to judge a work based on the intent rather than the execution. Most movies have something about them that is interesting, even if the direction/cinematography/acting completely failed to convey it accurately.
My mom is like this. She liked Battlefield Earth lol
Lmao I'm that person. I'm autistic though and because of that I simply don't notice if acting is good or bad, and I also am very uncritical of the story because I believe everything. Unless it's really egregious of course, but that doesn't happen that often.
I'm currently in a similar situation with a close friend. He's seen more movies than almost anyone I've met and yet his tastes are not at all discerning. He'll also rewatch movies all-the-time which I seldom do.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when critics judge a movie on what they think it should be, instead of what it’s actually trying to achieve. Sometimes it’s perfectly fine for a film to be big, loud, and nonsensical. Sometimes, a movie needs to be “complex” (although what critics call “complex” makes me think that a lot of them consider filmgoers to be idiots with the attention spans of goldfish).
Are there plenty of problems with any given popular film? Yes, but if it satisfies the audience it’s for, shut up.
I knew a dude that didn't like any movie that didn't teach him anything. That's fine. That's preference I guess no judgment... Until you had to work with him and listen to him drone on and on about how uncultured or unintelligent an animated Disney movie is for eight hours. Every now and then I see a review with someone complaining about how they didn't learn anything/the movie is too dumbed down and I wonder if he's still at it lol
filmgoers to be idiots with the attention spans of goldfish
Why do you think big, loud, and nonsensical is so popular?
I had a friend at school who did this. At the cinema, after the movie was over, he would be one of the loudest voices in the group, talking about how awesome the movie was, how it's going to do so well at the box office and how he couldn't wait for the next one to come out.
The very next day, he'd come in armed with research on all the plot holes and ways the movie failed from other critics, and then just lay into the movie as if it was the worst movie he'd seen and how it was a waste of his money.
We would point out how annoying he was for convincing himself that he hated it. The only opinion that counted was the one right after the movie ended; that's the best and most honest review one could give. He kept on doing it. It wasn't cool, Chris.
Who cares, as long as you liked it?
Rotten tomatos had Interstellar listed as 70% fresh, the week it come out.
Thr "critics" called the characters half baked.
I was so stoked for that movie i ignored it. And im so glad I did.
It's really my favorite movie of all time. Literally helped me build a personal philosophy and battle cancer.
But that is like your opinion man, I think the whole "love" thing is hot garbage. Nice pictures, garbage movie.
Ironically, I took that challenge when I first read the XKCD and found quite a few pretty quickly. It's either surprising how little people agree with each other OR how bad my movie tastes are :)
The hard parts are that post-2000 it was harder to find a <50 movie at all... and the fact you can't easily just grab a list of <50 movies after 2000 to read through and pick. In the 90's it's the opposite, since movies were so polarizing. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective sits at a freaking 48%. In fact, almost every movie I grew up loving is <50%... but then 2000 hits and it changes. I spent an hour and found a dozen back then, then moved on. But it's still so much easier to pick your favorite pre-2000 classic and find it's sitting well under 50%.
Ace Ventura, although enjoyed at the time, hasn't aged perfectly. There are some fun moments, and there are... others.
Easy, I genuinely love the Constantine movie.
Everybody else hates it because it's very different from the comics, oh no.
And it's 46% on rotten tomatoes.
Broke: Wahhhh everyone hates the movie I liked. They are all wrong and stupid.
Woke: Yeah that movie was crap. I loved it!
People need to accept that a film can be entertaining without actually being good.
Street Fighter is my go to for this. It's objectively awful. Half the cast can't act for shit. The plot of a 2D arcade fighting game was never going to stand up to a cinema audience trapped with it for an hour and a half. But then Raul Julia shows up and old-school chews the scenery. He knows it's shit too, but by fuck he's going to make you enjoy it.
Why I enjoyed all Resident Evil films and Doom. Bad, but I don't care. It was fun for some reason and that's good enough for me.
I have the opposite problem. Everyone I know loves a movie, and I think it's shit. Looking at you, Donnie Darko.
Same problem, different movies I guess... Donnie Darko is a personal favorite.
Why is that embarrassing? Feels good to break from borg mentality. Means it spoke to you in away it didn't for others. Fly your freak flag.
My wife and I went into The Northman blind, and we honestly loved the experience. I don't give a shit whether or not it's realistic or historical accurate on any front. It was like John Wick with Norse mythology. Just an intense and barbaric ride from start to finish. I was genuinely surprised to learn how universally disliked it was. But people are out there buying tickets to 9 Fast 9 Furious 9, so I don't exactly value the reviews of opinions of strangers.
I have just learned to accept that if I enjoy the movie watching experience and feel it was worth my time, it doesn't really matter what others think. That doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the film in the slightest. I may be curious why people disagree though, at the very least.
Movies don't always have to be a slam dunk or a masterpiece. I watched the detective pikachu movie on edibles and had no clue what any of the plot was but I loved every minute because the visuals were stellar and something I'd wanted to see as a kid. The Ryan Reynolds shit had me mega confused lol
Even if I didn't like a movie, at least I have an experience to share (more applies to watching with someone else) and something to discuss and keep my mind occupied for a bit on something that is low-stakes at the end of the day.
Even if I absolutely do not like a movie at all, at least all I'm out on is a little time and maybe money; and maybe I can bitch to a friend if they've seen it.
Ratings in general are heavily biased. For example, critics have a very different point of view from most viewers. And even the typical non-critic who goes on sites to rate movies isn't the average viewer either. People like that tend to over-analyze every detail and try to look for a deeper meaning in the works. But that doesn't correlate with your enjoyment of something.
I think there are some movies where your first impression when you walk out of the theater is going to be very different than your impression once you've had a couple of days to think.
Speaking of divisive movies, for the people here who watched it, what's your honest assessment of "Babylon"? Just curious.
Rotten Tomatoes is one of the worst rating systems out there. I use IMDB, and even then I take ratings with a grain of salt.
Rotten Tomatoes just combines all the ratings they can get their hands on, they don't rate anything themselves.
not a movie, but a video game.
call of duty black ops 3. (no spoilers, in case anyone is still to play it.)
during my playthrough i was like:
I don't care what anyone says, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is one of the best movies of all time.
This happened to me when recently watching white chicks. Is it a good movie ? No, but how fun it is. I laughed my ass off in front of it. It was absurd.
Sometimes you just want dumb humor that doesn't expect you to take it too seriously.
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 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.