NintendoKing
Smash Champion
Skip the first 4 paragraphs if you don't care for back story...
It's way too early in the morning and I just got finished watching Cop Out. I had a few laughs here and there and thought the movie was entertaining at best but it definitely wouldn't go into my Kevin Smith collection.
I wanted to see other people's opinions on the movie so I hopped on over to rotten tomatoes to take a gander on what the 'critics' were saying, then ran over to see what Ebert said about it. The general consensus was the movie was mediocre to bad basically. I felt my opinion greatly mirrored there's.
Then I got to thinking, "What about all my other favorite movies?". So I did some hunting and once again found myself agreeing with a lot of what the critics were saying, but not all of them.
All these reviews began turning some gears in my dome and I thought just briefly, "I could read some reviews to determine whether or not I should go see a movie in order to preemptively save some cash." I immediately stopped the gears from churning on that idea for I remembered that I love seeing movies, good or bad. I love the fact that I can go to a movie with only my friends' opinions (not all of them awesomely articulated), my preconceptions of what the movie will be liked based on commercials, and an open mind as to take in the movie's feeling it's trying to convey to me.
So that's my take on reading reviews before a movie. So what about ya'll? Yay or nay? And hell give some back story if you'd like.
It's way too early in the morning and I just got finished watching Cop Out. I had a few laughs here and there and thought the movie was entertaining at best but it definitely wouldn't go into my Kevin Smith collection.
I wanted to see other people's opinions on the movie so I hopped on over to rotten tomatoes to take a gander on what the 'critics' were saying, then ran over to see what Ebert said about it. The general consensus was the movie was mediocre to bad basically. I felt my opinion greatly mirrored there's.
Then I got to thinking, "What about all my other favorite movies?". So I did some hunting and once again found myself agreeing with a lot of what the critics were saying, but not all of them.
All these reviews began turning some gears in my dome and I thought just briefly, "I could read some reviews to determine whether or not I should go see a movie in order to preemptively save some cash." I immediately stopped the gears from churning on that idea for I remembered that I love seeing movies, good or bad. I love the fact that I can go to a movie with only my friends' opinions (not all of them awesomely articulated), my preconceptions of what the movie will be liked based on commercials, and an open mind as to take in the movie's feeling it's trying to convey to me.
So that's my take on reading reviews before a movie. So what about ya'll? Yay or nay? And hell give some back story if you'd like.