Movie Reviewers Goin' Down.......Down,Down.......

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Permalink Reply by Orbital Drop Shock Trooper on October 3, 2009 at 1:20pm

Hardly.

As long as there will be a medium to be interpreted, the critic shall always be present.

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Permalink Reply by AcE! on October 3, 2009 at 9:25pm

*obligatory "there have always been bad films" post*

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Permalink Reply by Brock on October 3, 2009 at 10:00pm

Even since the beginning of film, there has always been bad movies. Sure there have been more and more terrible movies coming out and sure the studios know it and won't give previews because of them.

However every year has more then one good movie amongst the terrible ones, this only means that the good movies will get more recognition because the studios actually want to give previews for them, meaning critics give reviews that people look at and base judgment off of, meaning they decide to go visit it or not.

Bad movies won't be the death of cinema, however audiences who are far more critical and unable to sustain disbelief, that will be the death of cinema.

When a person gets pissy over some minor thing that happens in a movie, that will bring cinema down. It's the people who let Nuke the Fridge from Indiana Jones 4 and Alien to English Language in District 9 get to them that will bring down the cinema. Some people call that nitpicking and that is what will bring down cinema....audiences who nitpick.

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Permalink Reply by AcE! on October 3, 2009 at 10:17pm

I will swear on my soul that it isn't nitpicking to criticize the fridge scene, but I digress.

I don't think the majority of audiences are as nitpicky as some of the bitter people on forums. I've rarely seen any nitpicking of District 9 and everyone loves it, and Indiana Jones 4 just wasn't a good movie, which actually brings up something else.

It's weird how there are films like Star Trek or District 9 that have their minor plotholes forgiven (because it's actually good), but when a film like Indy 4 comes out and it just isn't good because of the story and writing, everyone jumps on the minor plotholes as if they were the things that ruined the movie. In short, they're actually irrelevant 80 percent of the time.

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Permalink Reply by Brock on October 3, 2009 at 10:31pm

The forums on IMDB show how critical people are these days. They complain that because of something as little as Aliens talking their language but humans talking English and each understanding each other, that is a good enough reason it only give it 4/10 stars.

Granted Indiana Jones 4 wasn't as good as the originals but it's amazing that they let something like the Nuke resistant Fridge get to them, when in Temple of Doom they jump out of a plane using only a inflatable raft to stay alive from the fall. Then slide down a hill missing every rock only to land in water and fall of a waterfall and survive. When people complain about that movie they mention the Nuke the Fridge instead of mention the bad dialogue and horrible new characters like Mutt and the triple agent whathisname.

I agree with what you said about everyone jumping on the plot holes like that is what makes the movie bad. It's funny because if a good movie has a plot hole and someone mentions it, the lovers of that movie defend it and try to make sense of the plot hole.

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Permalink Reply by AcE! on October 4, 2009 at 12:25am

Heh. This isn't an attempt to start an argument (I agree with everything you're saying), but I've always found it odd that people always bring up that scene from Temple of Doom. Of all the movies, you pick a scene from the film that was least liked before Crystal Skull?

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Permalink Reply by Brock on October 4, 2009 at 1:06am

hmm you got me there.....what about the scene I can think of that is unlikely to happen was the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark at the beginning when Indy is being chased by the bolder and runs across the area that shoots poison darts and manages to make it through without get shot by a single poison dart.

I accept defeat when it comes to knowledge of Indiana Jones.

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Permalink Reply by AcE! on October 4, 2009 at 1:14am

I think it's just that people draw a line at a certain point.

If it's magic, whatever. It doesn't have to follow logic.

Darts ... whatever.
Boulders ... whatever.
Falling from a plane ... whatever.

Three waterfalls in a row? .... eh. whatever, I guess. Deal with it.

A NUCLEAR FUCKING EXPLOSION. No. No no no no.

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Permalink Reply by Lab Rat on October 4, 2009 at 1:45am

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