I really wanna see Valerian and the city of a thousand planets but critics have ruined it for me

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StarOcean on 22 July 2017

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Anyone who uses movie reviews for movie quality isn't typically the brightest bulb. The movie critic industry is an absolute joke and anyone who does it professionally is wasting their life away being useless.

Critics for movies are the most hyperbolic fucking crybabies in the world. They say something is either "amazing!" or "worst thing ever". Words like best and worst have lost meaning because of their overuse. Similar to how "Breaking News" in the news industry is rarely anything of importance because it can range from North Korea nuking South Korea to Kim Kardashian taking a shit at a public toilet.

The only reason to watch/read a movie review is to get an idea of what a movie is like, but even then that is limiting because you have to find a reviewer who has tastes similar to yourself. It's an annoying process. But yeah, idk, for me, judge for yourself if a movie is good or bad, movie reviewers are shit

I like how you did not mention game critics. This is a movie thread, but still found it interesting.

Game critics are flawed for different reasons. Movie critics are more corrupt though, and have an ego that is fucking annoying. Plus every "greatest film ever" by them tends to be boring Oscar bait. It's all rigged

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Majin-Tenshinhan on 22 July 2017

Mar1217 said:
Funny, you can already pinpoint in this thread who's less knowledgeable in sci-fi than others. Valerian and the city of thousand planets is the first ever written sci-fi novel.

I guess it might just be a bad adaptation, that's all. But the trailer convinced me to go see it just for the visuals :P

I don't even have words to respond with.

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Thespiralmatrix on 22 July 2017

Critics and their review pieces are easy enough to avoid. If you want a unique experience for yourself then avoid reviews.

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ZODIARKrebirth on 22 July 2017

i would watch it, regardless the reviews, i think everyone should make their own opinion

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SvennoJ on 22 July 2017

Majin-Tenshinhan said:

Mar1217 said:
Funny, you can already pinpoint in this thread who's less knowledgeable in sci-fi than others. Valerian and the city of thousand planets is the first ever written sci-fi novel.

I guess it might just be a bad adaptation, that's all. But the trailer convinced me to go see it just for the visuals :P

I don't even have words to respond with.

Perhaps he meant sci-fi comic, yet those have been around since the thirties. As for sci-fi, even the most blatently obvious sci-fi novelist Jules Verne died 62 years before the first publication of Valerian, who was far from the first sci-fi writer.

I wish someone would start with Asimov's foundation series or Clarke's Rama series, or Williams' Otherland series, or Baxter's Time's eye. So much epic sci-fi to choose from. But maybe it's better to go see something I've never heard of. I've read a lot of sci-fi yet always stayed away from comics.