When was the exact moment you realized that reviews are bought and paid for?

When was the exact moment you realized that reviews are bought and paid for?

when i realized that i don't let others dictate what i watch or listen to, or like in general.

SW:TFA

star trek into darkness

That's consistent with the audience score, though.

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but also this

Fuck off Mad Max is the best action movie of the last decade

Fuck off Mad Max is the most overrated action movie of the last decade
fixed for you

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Name some better action movies

>Raid
>Raid 2
>Dredd
>Edge of Tomorrow
>John Wick
>Baby Driver

when they gave Civil War a pass for the same flaws they dragged BvS

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>the absolute state of Fury Road fans

>BvS is good because Civil War is bad
snyderfags are the worst

None of these even compare to Fury Road except maybe the first Raid.

Film critique isn't about conveying the quality of a film. That is not the currency they trade in.

Film critique is about how much impact can a reviewer have on the box-office. Like actors have the metrics of how much the films they appear in make, critics similarly operate on their impact per property. Predictive, if the review matches the quality of the box-office take, a critic's stock rises. As they rise, their voice mattering more and more, it becomes self-fulfilling prophecy as they then dictate.

Exception abound, films that are going to take huge amounts regardless despite bad reviews, it all goes back to what the take -would- have been in a climate of good reviews. Speculative, but the metric.

Are these reviews bought and paid for? Yes, which is how this system arose. Quotes used in marketing are the most glaring example. They are why you know Peter Travers' name, because he is big business to the synergy of critique and marketing. Just as bad reviews which come in droves.

A lot of smaller critics follow trend, this sycophantic behavior also feeding the beast.

It's a bit cliche and arguably anecdotal but mixed review films tend to be interesting films as a result because they break the combo, so to say.

Determine if something looks good to you and give it a shot. If you want consensus, take it from civilians. But truly, exercising individual taste and opinion is the only way to fight to make professional film critique obsolete.

They all have a coherent story and character motivations, which Fury Road utterly lacks.

It was recently...

Birdman

This holy fuck. What a boring and utterly mediocre flick

When 6 Marvel Studios films debuted at 90% or above on RT in a row.