Film Critics

I wrote the following in an online forum and thought I might as well post it here. The topic was about film critics, particularly Ebert and Roeper.

I particularly like Ebert's review of The Passion of the Christ. I felt it was honest. And since then I've been reading his review on the movie that I am about to watch, though not to stop me from seeing it if the review is bad but just to have an overview of what I am about to see.

The Passion of the Christ is a very special movie to me. It greatly minimized my once high regard of the Rotten Tomatoes tomatometer. Not to mention that it also changed how I feel about certain reviewers. I feel that reviewers will oppose a movie no matter what if they want it not to succeed. Of course it would be wrong to think that critics will treat all movies the way they treated The Passion, but the reviews that came out are particularly telling of how certain critics are unable to objectively review a movie. I know that a movie is an art form so therefore critics are naturally subjective in their reviews. But I tend to forget this and the reviews for The Passion sort of reminded me about it big time. Maybe I was just naive for relying on the venerable tomatometer too much. But what can I say; there are things in life that are obvious to some and not so obvious to me. We live. We learn. Better late than never.

What's the big deal? Well, say you have been using a gadget thinking you know how it works, and it was very helpful and that it help you decide things, and then after say after several years you realized it wasn't working the way you thought it was working. Bummer! Big waste of time.