none of this shyt is science. Not a single one of them. It's all about who you agree with. Either you agree with critics who (mostly) get paid for their work or fans who vote on IMDB
you take your pick and you roll the dice.
Well, yeah, we all gotta make our own view on stuff (which I stated), but there are times where we lean on other opinions to guide us, especially with media.No
Personally, I don't "trust" anyone's ratings because, as a film critic put it s bluntly recently, the person reviewing the film isn't me. They have their opinion, I have mine. And I'll be damned if I let someone else's opinion deter me from seeing something I really want to see. All of this shyt is opinion at the end of the day
Elaborate.
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Cats live and die off Rotten Tomato scores and Metacritic scores but a lot of the people who contribute to that stuff don't see it as that important at all. They feel like they're one voice in a sea of many and they acknowledge they could be wrong. I've heard critics question if someone will look at their words in 10-20 years the way they look at the critics who bashed The Thing in '82.
I'm not a dude who swears by these sites. I just use IMDb for guidance on certain flicks.Writing isn't a science. Film criticism isn't a science. There's no formula to it man. I've seen writers go to press screenings and have their feelings immediately. I've seen some shyt on shyt and wait until they really know how they feel and what they want to say. And then there are those who actually do what we do here: they talk it out amongst their peers to figure it out or actually just go with what everyone else is saying because they're human and don't want to be the oddballs. Some film critics are actual film students and talk about it from an educational standpoint. Then you've got some who simply said they wanted to do the entertainment beat so that was the job they got and they like movies and tv so why not get paid to talk about it?
Also, the internet (as a collective) puts a lot more importance on their work and their ratings than they do, which is always the most hilarious thing about it
Bottomline, for the most part, they're just like you man and the minute you realize that, the less all of this shyt will mean to you. The only thing that separates them from the layperson is they get paid to write and most of them are good writers. Other than that?
I'm not a dude who swears by these sites. I just use IMDb for guidance on certain flicks.
Only 24 hours in a day, is the 20-120 minutes or so worth the time to watch this movie/show? Is the blu worth buying?
I normally go with the director or the actor or the subject matter. If I'm down with any of that, there's a good chance I'll cop
