How often do you listen on movie critics, online or otherwise?

Question

I have noticed that I haven't agreed with most movie critics in a very long time. I find that most of them nitpick. How often do you listen to movie critics and are they still necessary?

Answer 1

I never have...there have been too many times a critic will diss a movie that I go to see and ended up loving (Howard the Duck, which is voted by critics to be one of the 50 worst movies of all time) and praised movies that were too boring to sit through even thought I paid full price, ended up walking out of the movie theater (Out of Africa).

Are they necessary, for the most part, no. The only value they have ever been to me is to provide a peek into the subject matter, director and actors and I decide from that information, not their opinion of the movie, if I want to go see it.

Answer 2

I dont think critics are necessary at all. Every person has a different sense of humor, like different action shots, and like different types of movies. I dont see how one person saying the movie was good or not should affect if we see the movie. I am into dumb humor and none of the critics are so every movie with it is ranked low. It almost works that if critics like the movies, i dont see them and if they hate it, i go watch it and love it. Like the award shows, most people havent even seen a lot of the movies. I hear it all the time and wonder what the movies are even about. So, no i dont think critics are helpful.

Answer 3

I don't really listen to them. I do read what they have to say about some movies. Mostly to find out more about the movie though. If it gets a really bad review from alot of sources I tend to think there may be something to it. Now some of them though it's as simple as it wasn't the type of reviewer for the movie. For instance Final Destination 3. I don't think it did well with critics. It wasn't a movie FOR critics though. It was a movie for people who enjoy basically cheesy horror movies. It was an improvement over cheesy horror movies but not as good as the first.

Answer 4

I think the key is to find a movie critic that likes the same movies as you and dislikes the same movies as you. Those are the ones you should pay attention to. There is a local critic that hates all the movies I like and likes all the ones I hate, so I pay attention to them and then do the opposite. It's all in figuring out what works.

Answer 5

I get info from the critics that gives me some insight but really don't worry about how they rated a movie.

Answer 6

I think they're helpful at contextualizing films, assigning them to genealogies or places in history, but I don't find their evaluations very useful. The standards of quality they develop as a consequence of their training (assuming they have some) can be extremely limiting. They tend to value particular gestures of content, style, and performance, and I tend to value different things.

Answer 7

I find my tastes are pretty close to Roger Eberts so I generally listen to him. I think if you find a critic that mirrors most of your opinions and views then you can probably reply on their views.

Answer 8

he** no!!!! Most of those movie critics are geeks anyways and why should I trust their opinions. I'm my own movie critic and go with what I think.

Answer 9

I always check Rotten Tomatoes site to find out the general opinion of a film, and it has only let me down one time--that was for "A Beautiful Mind" which was not a beautiful film.

Answer 10

I always listen but do the opposite of what they say