| Saturday, December 08, 2007 |
| Ignore the critics! |
| "The Golden Compass" got a mediocre 44% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes, so chances are that if I hadn't attended the sneak preview last weekend, I would have skipped it, figuring it must not have been very good. And I would have missed a film that I really enjoyed. (Roger Ebert gave it four stars, but he seems to have been giving half the movies he sees four stars since he returned from his long period of convalescence; I suspect surviving a life-threatening illness gives one a certain joie de vivre.) I think the lesson here is that if something looks interesting, go see it no matter what other people are saying. Trust your instincts. I thought "Superbad" looked stupid, but I went to see it anyway because it got such rave reviews, and I hated it. "The Big Lebowski," which is one of my favorite films of all time, was greeted in its day as a disappointing follow-up to "Fargo"; I loved "Lebowski" immediately and have always felt that "Fargo" is the most overrated film in the brothers' canon. ("The Man Who Wasn't There" may be the most underrated, now that "Lebowski" is a screaming cult sensation.) |
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I enjoyed COMPASS, too (http://blog.mlive.com/james_sanford/), and was startled by the low rating on Rotten Tomatoes. And I'm remorseful that I urged you to see SUPERBAD, since you hated it. Now you'll never see ENCHANTED, will you? It's sometimes bizarre to see the critical consensus on certain pictures. At the critics' screening of LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD that I attended, everyone squawked about how idiotic it was; yet it got something like a 77 percent favorable rating on RT.
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I just borrowed Lebowski from my brother-in-law. Now I just need time to watch it.
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I enjoyed COMPASS, too (http://blog.mlive.com/james_sanford/), and was startled by the low rating on Rotten Tomatoes. And I'm remorseful that I urged you to see SUPERBAD, since you hated it. Now you'll never see ENCHANTED, will you? It's sometimes bizarre to see the critical consensus on certain pictures. At the critics' screening of LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD that I attended, everyone squawked about how idiotic it was; yet it got something like a 77 percent favorable rating on RT.