A Sad Day in Movie History -- Terminator Salvation

[BreakABone]

Oh gawd, I saw Vantage Point with one of my co-workers, it was a slow day at work.

And it was an awful awful movie, I expected some cool stuff from the time aspect, but it just repeating the same stuff over and over to the point where the movie was maybe like 20-30 minutes of content spread over almost 2 hours.

Hell saw Mad Money that weekend, and even thought it was better.

As for critics, it is kind of funny the difference between reviews and box office appeal sometimes. I mean looking at the top 5 movies this past weekend only one of them was fresh (Star Trek), while I agree with Wolverine. Most people who seen it generally thought that Angels and Demons was a good movie or watchable. And the same goes for any other movie, I remember the first big debate about this came from 300 as it was critically panned, but most audiences loved it.

[Seth]

Typh, which critics do you usually pay attention to? I'm trying to cut down my preview film searching and would like a more refined filter.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Seth

Typh, which critics do you usually pay attention to? I'm trying to cut down my preview film searching and would like a more refined filter.

I don't pay attention to critics. I don't read review sites or anything like that. Maybe to get the gist of a movie, but that's it.

Typically, I pick up things just through what my friends say, or what people in the various online communities I belong to say.

I find that the consumer is a much more credible resource in telling you what is and isn't a good movie, than the critics are.

[The Germanator]

I like to read movie reviews here and there for certain reasons. For example, I find a site like Rotten Tomatoes to be very useful. Even I never read a single individual review on the site, a collection of either thumbs up or thumbs down is actually quite useful to me.

For example. My interest in the new Star Trek movie, before having seen any reviews, was tepid at best. But now, the fact that it has a 95% rating means a hell of a lot to me. A 95% rating means it's probably pretty good and I actually want to see it now. If it was hovering at 50-60% I'd probably never see it, and with good reason.

Now, this isn't a perfect system. Another example: One of my favorite comedies of all time, Wet Hot American Summer has about a 20% tomato rating. Ebert's review of the film is absolutely asinine, and it's clear he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. In my mind, the film is hilarious, but I also understand how it isn't for everyone and the rating from that many critics doesn't surprise me.

Basically, if the film is directed by someone I'm fond of or if it's a subject matter I'm fond of etc., I'll see it no matter what the review. If I'm unsure going in, however, I'll rely on Rotten Tomatoes to give me the gist before I jump in to a potentially crappy movie.

[BreakABone]

I agree with Germy to an extent, I use critic reviews and general opinions when it comes to movies I'm on the fence about.

if the Dark knight had come out to reviews in the teens or whatever, I still would have gone to see it.

On the other hand, if something like Night at the Musuem 2 comes in with luke warm reviews, I may be less inclined to see it. While I enjoyed the first one, the second one seems to want to replicate that. I don't know if you can recapture the magic twice.

With that said, I don't read reviews often, and usually only after I see a movie.

[BreakABone]

Ahh finally saw this movie after avoiding it all summer, and it wasn't bad, but it wasn't memorable either.

It was probably the worst of the Terminators, and while I understand they couldn't keep pushing back Judgement Day, the war with the robots just seems so bleh.

Anyhow, one major beef I've had with the movie, and some of you may have had the same, the first time John Connors sees the Arnold skinned robot, he just shooting at it.

It was established in 2-3 that he feels a special connection with these robots and it became like a father figure to him in 2... so the first thing he does when he sees it again is to open fire? Nice.

And was also disappointed that Marcus turned out to be exactly what they had said he was.

[Fox 6]

3 is the worst.