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Originally posted by gregor@Jan 5 2006, 09:39 AM
same here.
i also never understood why they rated it bad.
especially here in my country i hate these film critics. they never understand the gist of movie. Like Doom - it wasn't ment as a broadway show or Gone in the wind movie damn it! the doom is ment as a tribute to DOOM. especially the 1st person sequence.
same like Resident evil - good movie. and then the most stupid thing is when i see movie ratings and then when they are repating the same movie on tv same persons give it different rating (much higher).
Or Mortal combat which really isnt' that bad action movie. they simply rate it low because of their poor knowledge on it's background. to them it's enough that the story is based on computer game or comic book.
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C. S. Lewis put his finger right on it when he explained why he would never do a review of a book written in a genre that he disliked. If you do not like the genre of english boarding school fiction, Harry Potter will never please, no matter who writes it. I read two reviews of the film The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which were complete opposites. So complete that the only thing that the first reviewer hated (the beaver couple) was the only thing that the other reviewer liked.
How you see a film depends on what you are expecting. Lots of people panned Darkman, and I can understand why. One the important reasons that I enjoyed Darkman was that the friend who recommended it to me said that if I cannot appreciate that it would be a live-action comic book, I should stay away. I can enjoy a good comic book, so I enjoyed the film.
Use or overuse of CGI is not an evil, by itself. It is only a problem when it is done wrong. Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring has a really bad CGI scene when Boromir battle the cave troll. A much more effective shot would have had the badly CGI'd Boromir leap onto the cave troll's shoulder followed by a cut to a blue screened Sean Bean on a tricked up mechanical bull (reminiscent to the fight between Sinbad and the cyclopean centaur in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad [I do not want to talk about the animated greek of the same name, the proper Sinbad is an admirable muslim arab from Scherezade's tales]).
A good film can be a bad film if it is not what the audience expected. The 1998 CGI'd Godzilla was a phenomenal flop, because it betrayed its core target audience. If I am typical of the breed, Godzilla fans do not want to see Juraissic Park. We want to see, and will pay to see, a man in a large rubber suit stomp all over a model city. The Thomas the Tank Engine film got this right when they did not animate the faces of the trains.
I will stop rambling and get back to my point: the review of something depends on whether or not it is the sort of thing that the reviewer likes.