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Simpleton on 01 January 2018
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Aeolus451 said:
thismeintiel said:

Shh. Critics are to be worshiped. We are to obey when they tell us what is good or bad.

All hail the great critics. Their opinion is all that matters.

Goodnightmoon said:

Of course they can and they have been wrong about some great films in the past, they are only humans, however I would argue they are usually way more right than wrong and I don't think they failed in the judgement of this movie at all. Critics do not hate comedies, sci-fi and horror movies that's nothing more than a myth, every year there are movies of those genres very well received by them and yes I'm aware critics and general public do have their differeces, but that's obvious, the general public is for the most part like most people in this thread, clueless about cinema and with a very uneducated taste, while critics are usually very into cinema, they have spent their lifes watching all kinds of movies from all ages and many times they have studied cinema or even work on it, so of course there is gonna be a differece of opinion between those 2 kind of profile.

I disagree. They tend to give dramas or films that promote pc, critical acclaim while rarely giving any film from those genre a passing grade. These critics are no different than the guys behind the art or fashion scenes. They live within an echo chamber and they value their own opinions too much. They might as well live on another world with out of touch they are with the consumers on those products. 

Have we forgotten that people wanted to shut down rotten tomatoes because they give bad DC films bad scores? Maybe the general audiences value the opinions of critics too much.

The rest is kinda nonsense. Lots of movies in other genres have gotten positive reviews. Just because the critics disliked Texas Chainsaw 3D doesn't mean The Witch, The Conjuring 2, Lights Out, Don't Breathe, It Follows, It Comes at Night, Annabelle Creation, The Shallows, and Ouija Origin of Evil didn't get high praise. All horror movies from the past 2 years. Just because a movie gets good reviews doesn't mean it's a good movie and just because a movie gets bad reviews doesn't mean it's a bad movie, but there's no great conspiracy here.