"Its easy to impress a beliver, little difficult to impress a non-beliver but impossible to impress a critic." I was just reading reviews about some very famous & commercially successful movies of our times. But I was surprised to see some of the very best movies like LOTR, POC ,Scent of a woman, Forrest Gump , The Pursuit Of Happyness drawing heavy flak from some self-proclaimed critics.(See Reviews). I know that each person may have diferent opinion about a movie but the manner in which the criticism is directed (or mis-directed would be more truthful) is rather shocking !! Like
1) a critic having a go at Peter Jackson's directoral work.... " When we talk about Jackson's directorial style, what exactly are we talking about? The ability to juggle a production this size is a feat, but what else does he bring to it??".........
Peter Jackson's LOTR is one of the very few examples where the movie does not mar the reputation of the equally illustrious original work (in this case by JRR Tolkien).
2) another fathead having his say about Will Smith's performance inThe Pursuit Of Happyness as mediocore & calling the movie a 'crowd-pleasing hollywood style self- help video '......
And I thought I recognised a good movie when I saw on :P. Shame on me :(
The film industry had critics right from the time the fine art of film-making started &
they will be there till the very end of this world....
I think there are only two ways to proceed from here.-
a) To convince urself that u dont understand a bit about movies & submit urself to this mighty power and form ur opinions accordingly...
OR
b) To watch movies & form ur opinions without giving a shit about what the critics say always keeping in mind that movies too follow Darwin's Law of Natural Selection(in most cases)
I prefer the second one......
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Good morning, my name is Michalis. I have seen your blog and see πολυ well. We follow your blog from Greece and I wish you good fun and joy
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its a well established fact that critics have associations with studios and in India "camps", how then do we explain taran adarsh giving Dev D 1.5 stars while heaping praise on Om Shanti Om types of movies.
The above average movie goes, knows mostly from trailers itself what movie to go for and what to avoid, critics are for those who'd rather take up someone else's view as their own. I for one wud rather trust my movie instincts than go with the critics.
its ALWAYS option b...
i prefer option B
we have to make ratings ourself
and believe in our own movie instinct
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