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j.thomaz said:
I'll take your word and will watch. Thanks for the advice.

But you know, critics try to help, I'm not sure works 100%, but people are dumb. Look those awful superman vs batman with that tetrapod ben affleck. Critics trie to flop it for us, and yet masses of dumb people went there and watched it. Look at that box office.

I'll watch your movie, I'll trust a fellow gamer. Though, I have not lost faith in critics but in people.

I honestly don't think its always about intelligence. I've met many very intelligent people that like all sorts of simplistic movies from basic laurel and hardy slapstick to hong kong martial art's movies where you could probably be drunk, drugged up and slipping into a coma and still understand the plot and scenes with nothing really beyond what is on screen at the time. We shouldn't have elitism about what we watch compared to others. If your taking your family out for a movie with a wide range of ages you aren't going to watch donnie darko etc. I have no problem with people liking films with strange plots, wierd directing styles and generally ackward soundtracks and acting which don't really have a beginning or end or make any form of sense but that's not my style of film and I don't like to watch such films or ponder afterwards about their greater meaning. I look for the fantastic in my movie experiences, ideas beyond our time and location with imagination used to the fullest but still within a basic premise you can believe. 

I'd rather watch one of those low cost asylum movies than a arthouse movie even if its just for laughs how bad they are.

Because of Adam West's death recently I fancied watching 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars' again, a really cheesy old scifi movie. Really enjoyed it, that is my idea of movie bliss, the science is wrong and its dated quite badly but still for me is very enjoyable. I guess you could see it as an early version of the martian.

Different people look for different things in movies but my criticism of critics is they aren't really providing a service for the majority because their opinions are too far away from the majority. Obviously this doesn't apply to all critics but there is a large percentage who criticise movies the majority like and favour and promote movies the majority dislike.

https://archive.org/details/RobinsonCrusoeOnMarsEn