I am sorry to say this but I DO NOT like our ever popular Movie/Film Critics, Roger Ebert, Cole Smithey, or Armond White. They call themselves experts on being able to Judge to Movies/Films, but from my experience they are 80% of the time wrong.
How did I come up with 80% you ask? Well I will tell you how, I have many friends on Facebook (320), I have a large family that I am close to (42 members including all distant relatives), and then in this small town that I live in of 500 people, I am friends and acquaintances of 375 of them. I then went through thousands of Movies/Films that were rated a C or less and deemed un-seeable, until I found 100 of them that all 737 plus me have seen. I then asked all 737 people their opinion on these Movies/Films such as if you were to give these Movies/Films a school grade what would it be, would you recommend this Movie/Film to your friends, family, and strangers, would you watch this Movie/Film more then once, etc.. Then I took their answers and mine and 80% of these people gave these Movies/Films a B or higher, they would recommend them, and they would watch them at least one more time or more.
I have actually turned my nose up at Movies/Films at the Video Store or on Pay-Per-View just because of the reviews I heard about them, but then later on come across them on regular TV and find that it caught my attention and I ended up really liking or loving the Movie/Film.
I do not just criticism these Movie Critics because they have cost me and others the enjoyment of Movies/Films that were worth watching, but they also have costed many Producers, Directors, and Actors they dignity and worthiness, let alone stardom and money.
I guess it just boils down "to each their own" when it comes to what we like in Movies/Films. I love Movies/Films from the Classics to the New, and I love finding their differences, but then if you look real close you will find some of the Classics techniques in them too. The Classics will never die when it comes to Movies/Films, and why should they? When you do something perfect the first time why change it?
Now I know if we did not have these Critics then the Produces, Directors, Actors, and others would not strive to put their best foot forward. I just think that these Critics need to be a little less harsh,
Please note that I have nothing against these Movie Critics, I just wish they would see these Movie/Films through the eyes of others, and not have tunnel vision.
