Hey everyone and welcome back. So...as of recently I'm not really enjoying film critics and/or the film community. Now yes I know not every single fandom is perfect but that's still no excuse to be what's the polite wording...exhausting, yeah let's use that word. So enough of this very terrible opening, let's get to it. Here are my top five problems with film critics and the fandom.
#5. A Race to Be The Snarkiest
Yeah you all have probably seen this. You know whenever a new film comes out and it sucks the reviews on film reviews websites like Rotten Tomatoes (ugh!) everything starts out as a review then turns to an insult contest. And that's what I don't like. For some reason nowadays whenever a film comes out whether it be good or bad someone anyone has to act this way. They say their reviewing the film but their not. Both critics and fans need to realize there's a differences between criticism and just being a troll.
#4. Not Finding a Grey Area
For some reason as of late it feels like no one whether it's a film critic or film fan can find a grey area in movies. It's either the film is super amazing or it's awful and should never be heard of again. The reason why I hate this is because while yes you have your good movies and your bad movies there is still a lot of films that fall in the category of being okay. Not awful not spectacular just okay. One example is 2016's Suicide Squad or last years Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets. While those films had problems there still was a lot of good things in them. But nope they sucked they didn't fall in the only two ratings. Anything that isn't rated certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes or 10/10 on IMDb it's an awful film. I just hate how black and white the fandom/critics have made films.
#3. Thinking They Know What Goes Into Making a Movie
This one's going to a bit longer so bare with him here. Basically what I'm trying to say is a lot ofcritics/fans have been acting like they know what goes into making a film. Even though I lot of them can be broken into two categories. On one said we have the filmmaker who's also a film critic. My problem with this these filmmakers/film critics have this attitude as if the film their reviewing is something they could have done better. But then you look at the filmography and they mostly deal with very very VERY small independent movies. I'm talking a budget they were lucky enough to get at the $25,000 mark. In short these filmmakers/film critics really need to stop acting like they could do better then their more high budgeted directors. Because I guarantee if you were do give them the job of directing a big budgeted blockbuster mostly likely some of them would crack under that pressure. Then we have the film critic who's just that a film critic. Not somebody who was a stage hand, VFX artist, or even the mic guy, just the film critic. My problem with them is they sometimes act like they know the behind the scenes process but some of them don't. Now they do have a good moment that says they have some kind of idea of what's going but I large majority of the time not so much. So filmmakers/film critics and plain regular film critics please stop acting like you know something when even you know you don't.
#2. Not Knowing What They Want
So to my recent memory both critics and the film community can't seem to know what they want from filmmakers. One of the biggest examples is when Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice came out they complained about how the film was so dark and serious. So Warner Bros. decided to make Justice League more lighter than the previous movie. But even with this change they still complained and said things like it lacks substance unlike Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. I couldn't believe they said that since that's what they wanted! Okay so critics/film fans want movies to be more "fun" than dark fine. Then Rampage came and it's basically what they wanted. Even though the film was dark in some places it was still a turn-off your brain flick. But they still complained! The main complaint being they wished for more drama by having the giant animals to be human first then transform to animals, instead of animals being made bigger. What they were saying is can this be a little bit darker? But they previously said they don't want dark stuff in their movies. So it's this consist they got what they want but they still want to moan and groan.
#1. Judging a Movie Before It's Release
Oh my god! This one drives me absolutely crazy! I can not stand this! Now a lot of times this is to be expected whenever a poster, trailer, or even a commercial has been released people feel the need to criticize it. But their not criticize any of those their judging the whole film based on a bad poster or trailer. One example of this is when the first Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom trailer came out people were saying it looks dumb or the writers were ripping off The Lost World: Jurassic Park II. Remember this was a teaser trailer not the actual film, they were criticizing a teaser. The number one rule for me is review the final product not the marketing. For example in my opinion Spider-Man: Homecoming had some pretty bad marketing. One trailer spoiled how Spider-Man gets out of that boat that was splitting apart, the choice of song for the first trailer was terrible, Iron Man was involved in so much of the marketing fans were worried it would be Iron Man: Homecoming and let's not forget this horrendous excuse of a poster.
For some reason as of late it feels like no one whether it's a film critic or film fan can find a grey area in movies. It's either the film is super amazing or it's awful and should never be heard of again. The reason why I hate this is because while yes you have your good movies and your bad movies there is still a lot of films that fall in the category of being okay. Not awful not spectacular just okay. One example is 2016's Suicide Squad or last years Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets. While those films had problems there still was a lot of good things in them. But nope they sucked they didn't fall in the only two ratings. Anything that isn't rated certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes or 10/10 on IMDb it's an awful film. I just hate how black and white the fandom/critics have made films.
#3. Thinking They Know What Goes Into Making a Movie
This one's going to a bit longer so bare with him here. Basically what I'm trying to say is a lot ofcritics/fans have been acting like they know what goes into making a film. Even though I lot of them can be broken into two categories. On one said we have the filmmaker who's also a film critic. My problem with this these filmmakers/film critics have this attitude as if the film their reviewing is something they could have done better. But then you look at the filmography and they mostly deal with very very VERY small independent movies. I'm talking a budget they were lucky enough to get at the $25,000 mark. In short these filmmakers/film critics really need to stop acting like they could do better then their more high budgeted directors. Because I guarantee if you were do give them the job of directing a big budgeted blockbuster mostly likely some of them would crack under that pressure. Then we have the film critic who's just that a film critic. Not somebody who was a stage hand, VFX artist, or even the mic guy, just the film critic. My problem with them is they sometimes act like they know the behind the scenes process but some of them don't. Now they do have a good moment that says they have some kind of idea of what's going but I large majority of the time not so much. So filmmakers/film critics and plain regular film critics please stop acting like you know something when even you know you don't.
#2. Not Knowing What They Want
So to my recent memory both critics and the film community can't seem to know what they want from filmmakers. One of the biggest examples is when Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice came out they complained about how the film was so dark and serious. So Warner Bros. decided to make Justice League more lighter than the previous movie. But even with this change they still complained and said things like it lacks substance unlike Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. I couldn't believe they said that since that's what they wanted! Okay so critics/film fans want movies to be more "fun" than dark fine. Then Rampage came and it's basically what they wanted. Even though the film was dark in some places it was still a turn-off your brain flick. But they still complained! The main complaint being they wished for more drama by having the giant animals to be human first then transform to animals, instead of animals being made bigger. What they were saying is can this be a little bit darker? But they previously said they don't want dark stuff in their movies. So it's this consist they got what they want but they still want to moan and groan.
#1. Judging a Movie Before It's Release
Oh my god! This one drives me absolutely crazy! I can not stand this! Now a lot of times this is to be expected whenever a poster, trailer, or even a commercial has been released people feel the need to criticize it. But their not criticize any of those their judging the whole film based on a bad poster or trailer. One example of this is when the first Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom trailer came out people were saying it looks dumb or the writers were ripping off The Lost World: Jurassic Park II. Remember this was a teaser trailer not the actual film, they were criticizing a teaser. The number one rule for me is review the final product not the marketing. For example in my opinion Spider-Man: Homecoming had some pretty bad marketing. One trailer spoiled how Spider-Man gets out of that boat that was splitting apart, the choice of song for the first trailer was terrible, Iron Man was involved in so much of the marketing fans were worried it would be Iron Man: Homecoming and let's not forget this horrendous excuse of a poster.
| By the way, that Iron Man pose was used at least three more times for other posters. |
So yeah the marketing was not filling me up with the best confidants for this movie but I still didn't want to judge the movie based on marketing. Then July 7, 2017 rolled in and you know what the film was good not perfect but good. This is what every critic/fan should be doing. They can criticize the marketing all they want that's fine but they need sit and wait for they actual film to come before making any sort of judgment on the film's quality.
That's going to do it for me folks. So enjoy the rest of your day.
State of The Project (Jul 7th - Aug 2nd)
Jul 7th - Ant-Man and The Wasp Review
Jul 16th - What You Probably Didn't Know About The Terminator (1984)
Jul 19th - Raiders of The Lost Media - Star Wars: Battlefront III
Jul 23rd - A Look Back at Superman: Doomsday (2007)
Jul 26th - The Death of Superman Review
Jul 30th - My Top 5 Problems with Today's Film Critics and The Film Fandom
Aug 2nd - Is It True? - Andy's Mom is Jessie's Owner
NOTE: IF ANYTHING CHANGES I WILL TELL YOU!
Jul 7th - Ant-Man and The Wasp Review
Jul 16th - What You Probably Didn't Know About The Terminator (1984)
Jul 19th - Raiders of The Lost Media - Star Wars: Battlefront III
Jul 23rd - A Look Back at Superman: Doomsday (2007)
Jul 26th - The Death of Superman Review
Jul 30th - My Top 5 Problems with Today's Film Critics and The Film Fandom
Aug 2nd - Is It True? - Andy's Mom is Jessie's Owner
NOTE: IF ANYTHING CHANGES I WILL TELL YOU!
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