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[Lucca]

irstupid said: 

LuccaCardoso1 said: 

User reviews are bullshit, just read some on Metacritic and you'll find out why. Out of the 140 user reviews, only 11 are "mixed". A lot of people just rate it as 10 if they want the movie to have a higher score or 0 if they want the movie to have a lower score. One of the feature reviews is someone saying "I do not understand the critics, although there were a couple of ridiculous moments" and giving it a 10/10. Meaning the person knows the movie has noticeable flaws but still gives it a 10/10.

Honestly, what do you think is more likely?

a) Film critics, adults who have been reviewing movies for a long time and studied to be able to argue and defend their points, and can lose their jobs if they just go crazy and give random grades without justifying them not being able to "tell a good movie from a bad movie" or
b) Users, kids included, who went to see the movie right when it released (and consequentially are most likely fans of the character) and can just give whatever grade they want without any consequences and who don't even have to justify anything, giving high grades just because they're fanboys?

I can't tell if that's irony or not, but the statement is so absurd that I'm just going to assume that it is, for my sanity's sake.

 

I don't understand the amount of hate I see directed toward critics in this forum. You know that the only difference between a critic and a normal person is that the critic is trained to defend their point, right? It makes no sense to trust the user reviews but not the critic reviews.

 

You mean I should trust critics and journalists who get paid by the number of people that look at their material. How does one get viewers over another aritcle/review? By having unique, new and original material.

Well let me ask you this then. What are the chances that Disney invites you to one of their closed door events, or a private screening, or many of the other things they do if your reviews are largely negative towards them? Probably not. How about gaming. Lets say you give shit reviews allt he time. What are chances Sony sends you a review copy?

What about all the free swag you see companies send reviewers/critics that they open for viewers? Ect.

How can I trust someone who's livelihood is dictated by a company that they are reviewing giving them stuff or letting them see stuff only "press" get to see? 

That logic does make sense theoretically, but in practice things are very different. Let's take Disney as an example since you mentioned them. Critics should be afraid of giving bad scores to their films since they make up more than a third of every released movie, right? But the last Pirates of the Caribbean has a 39 on Metacritic, one of the scores being a 0. Alice Through the Looking Glass has a 34, with one of the scores being a 0 too. Those are just two examples.

Let's talk about gaming. Using Sony as an example, since you mentioned them too. Here is a list of games published by them in 2018 with yellow ratings (mixed or average reviews, what people usually consider bad scores): Track Lab, Animal Force, Salary Man Escape VR, World of Warriors, Frantics, The Inpatient. And Bravo Team, also published by them, has a 45, a red rating (generally unfavourable reviews). Out of the 14 games published by them this year that have Metascores, only 7 have green ratings (generally favourable reviews). And still, Sony seems to be letting these reviewers get exclusive "press stuff" and sending review copies to them.

You're hating critics for what you think they do, and not for what they actually do.

irstupid said: 

Then you have the reviewers that write a review with words that no one ever uses. They just sound like they are smelling their own farts like their a fine wine. That's great and all you spent 100k+ on an education to write about how amazing Ant-Man and the Wasp was. Good for you.

That's called writing a compelling text. If you just keep reusing the same words over and over, your text will get stale and boring. They're not trying to look fancy and smarter than you, they're just trying to write a good text. Don't blame them for your lack of vocabulary.