What Exactly Is Jim Sterling Reviewing? Not Much Apparently

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ZenfoldorVGI said:

rocketpig said:

Everyone loves bad movies, even many reviewers I follow. On the other hand, not a single one of them has ever written a review that awards a trainwreck movie a perfect score. People may say they like them but when they break them down into a review piece, there's no way they ignore the massive flaws in dialogue, story, acting, etc. and give the movie a 10/10 because "they like it".

Loving a trainwreck movie really has little to do with not seeing its flaws. In fact, loving the movie is usally based AROUND seeing its flaws and laughing at them.

Evil Dead 2 is the greatest movie ever made, and one of my favorites. It's a "bad movie" despite having like a 100 percent on rottentomatoes.

Over 20 years after the fact, the only people who are going to review a movie like Evil Dead 2 are fans of the movie. No one is going to go out of their way to review an old movie they didn't like in the first place. That score isn't surprising in the least bit. If that movie released today, the aggregate score would be WAY lower.

Look at other cult classics in the making... Snakes on a Plane pulls in a mighty 68% on RT while Fight Club, which released shortly after the first Internet boom, pulls a slightly higher 80% on the site.

Besides, I bet if I read through all 40+ of those reviews, I bet I wouldn't find ONE that spent half the piece insulting the movie before awarding it a perfect score.