bugrimmar said:
pokoko said:
What I disagreed with was the childish way you insulted an entire segement of people because you disagreed with some of them. Generalizations like that, to me, are a hell of a lot worse than a difference of opinion over a movie. But let's not fight.
It bugs you that professional movie critics like different things than you, while it bugs me that someone would call someone else "trash" over something as trivial as that. Let's just agree to disagree.
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I'm calling them trash because they're irresponsibly leading people toward things that aren't as good as they claim it to be. I feel that as journalists, they should hold themselves to higher standards than just "artsy expressions" and be more connected to the general public that will see the movie anyway. I mean, if they're reviewing the film solely by themselves, they aren't fit to be reviewers. The majority of the film viewing universe doesn't really care about what they like to emphasize on so much while their function is supposed to be to guide viewers to good films. It's an moronic waste of space and time.
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Professional reviewers are usually people that are very passionate about the art of film (as is the general audiance for such reviews). And they rate bassed on their own aquired tastes which will naturally be different from your average moviegoer. There is however nothing wrong with that, and using agrigate scores is in general rather silly for a subjective medium. You wouldn't expect someone who reviews horror movies to try and rate movies bassed on what they think the general public who isn't into horror movies would like them would you? Reviews have to reflect the oppinions of the reviewer trying to guess what the average joe would think of a movie would be a moronic exercise in futility. Ignore agrigate scores and find reviewers who share your taste in movies (rather than expecting all reviewers to reflect your taste in movies), you will be much happier for it.
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