• SchizoDenji@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Counterpoint: Movie “Critics” are supposed to be the ones who judge movie on how well made it is rather than their personal taste. Roger Ebert disliked a lot of films but didn’t deduct the scores because of it.

    Funko critics on RT are not qualified to be critics.

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      8 months ago

      I always gave Ebert credit for his review philosophy. Like you said, he would review a slasher movie and he said he didn’t care for them but he would review it from the angle of slasher movies and if it was a good slasher movie. He seemed to have a strange hangup on nudity even though he wrote the script for “Valley of the Dolls.” For instance, he didn’t like “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” because Jennifer Jason Leigh had a nude scene.

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      8 months ago

      Pedestrian reviewers are fine too so long as you can depend on them to endorse certain types of films.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t think it’s contradictory to my post. RT is one of the boards I check for the angle of supposedly professional movie critics, though I’ll be the first to admit the standards are pretty low.