Reviews - Should Graphics Effect The Score?

[theRepublic]

Fumanchu said:
Yeah that was a bad example - that was graphics sacrificing story...or lack there of.

I shudder to think of what it would have receieved without the eye-popping visuals though, which would have been at the foundation of the few good reviews.

That wasn't a bad example, it is actually pretty representative of the movie industry.  Most of those "summer blockbuster" movies get bad reviews and do well at the box office.  The movies that are critically acclaimed and win awards are usually things that most people have never seen and aren't necessarily box office successes.

Of course, those are generalizations.  There are always exeptions.