Kevin's Watch

I usually don't bother too much with what people think, and I sometimes find it interesting to check out what the consensus on a film is. I do read reviews (mostly 'cos good ones of bad films are hilarious ) and I do not go to films I know I won't like anymore.

I'm interested in people's furthest divergences from both the Critics and the Audience scores, especially for films you love.

So far, mine is 'Sideways' (Critics: 96%, Audience: 78%). I love this movie and so diverge from the audience here.

u.

My hatred for Silver Linings Playbook is well-documented.

Cail wrote:My hatred for Silver Linings Playbook is well-documented.

I haven't seen this yet, but that's an impressive level of divergence (Critics: 92%, Audience: 86%). Anything in particular that set you off?

u.

I have a ton of them.

Tom Cruise War of the Worlds HATED it. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 74. The one thing that might have redeemed it is if that screaming little brat Dakota Fanning had been used for fertilizer early in the film.

Man on Fire - Denzel Washington. Liked it a whole lot DESPITE Dakota Fanning. I think it was one of Denzel's best performances. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 39.

Prometheus hated hated it for a million reasons. Stupid film. RT gave it a 73.

want more? I have tons.

lorin wrote:Man on Fire - Denzel Washington. Liked it a whole lot DESPITE Dakota Fanning. I think it was one of Denzel's best performances. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 39.

Wow! I would have thought that your first mistake was even watching that film I took one look at the trailers and thought 'Avoid!'. I have the same feelings in relation to those Liam Neeson vehicles - it's the 'lets put a quality actor into an action movie and rake in the cash' tactic. Still I'm obviously missing something as it has an Audience score of 90% on RT. 90%!!!! The Critics' score is 39%. Is that some kind of record? A 50% difference.

lorin wrote:Tom Cruise War of the Worlds HATED it. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 74. The one thing that might have redeemed it is if that screaming little brat Dakota Fanning had been used for fertilizer early in the film...

Prometheus hated hated it for a million reasons. Stupid film. RT gave it a 73.

I thought both of these were okay, if lacking anything that interesting or novel. (I will watch any sci-fi movie though (except those with Vin Diesel in them. He sucks!))

u.

ussusimiel wrote:

Cail wrote:My hatred for Silver Linings Playbook is well-documented.

I haven't seen this yet, but that's an impressive level of divergence (Critics: 92%, Audience: 86%). Anything in particular that set you off?

u.

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ussusimiel wrote:

lorin wrote:Man on Fire - Denzel Washington. Liked it a whole lot DESPITE Dakota Fanning. I think it was one of Denzel's best performances. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 39.

Wow! I would have thought that your first mistake was even watching that film I took one look at the trailers and thought 'Avoid!'. I have the same feelings in relation to those Liam Neeson vehicles - it's the 'lets put a quality actor into an action movie and rake in the cash' tactic. Still I'm obviously missing something as it has an Audience score of 90% on RT. 90%!!!! The Critics' score is 39%. Is that some kind of record? A 50% difference.

lorin wrote:Tom Cruise War of the Worlds HATED it. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 74. The one thing that might have redeemed it is if that screaming little brat Dakota Fanning had been used for fertilizer early in the film...

Prometheus hated hated it for a million reasons. Stupid film. RT gave it a 73.

I thought both of these were okay, if lacking anything that interesting or novel. (I will watch any sci-fi movie though (except those with Vin Diesel in them. He sucks!))

u.

I wasn't much for the story in Man on Fire, although there is a big 'revenge' thing going on inside me (to my shame). I also thought his performance and the unusual filming gave it something special.


btw - Vin Diesel ..........."I am Groot" He really nailed it.

Cail wrote:

ussusimiel wrote:

Cail wrote:My hatred for Silver Linings Playbook is well-documented.

I haven't seen this yet, but that's an impressive level of divergence (Critics: 92%, Audience: 86%). Anything in particular that set you off?

u.

kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=23409

Get that. I feel the same way about films like 'Old School' (and just about anything with Vince Vaughan in it), which I find unbelievably insulting in their depiction of men as borderline infants

u.

Man on Fire I think I completely agree with the critics. Just didn't appeal to me at all and I don't really remember the ending as I think I started reading a book while it was on (my father-in-law was visiting and he was watching it)

But as for disagreeing, I think there are a lot. One that I have noticed not doing so well is Christmas Vaction (64% on rottentomatoes), which we watch pretty much every Christmas.

For me, it was the Vanishing. It was touted as one of the best psychological thrillers of the year! Edge of your seat suspense.

I have never been so bored in my life. Might (and I stress the "Might not" part of that statement) have made an OK short story. But two hours of reading Dutch for this was just not worth it.

That was the day I told my friend that she was never allowed to choose a film again. Never....

Doc

(And for the record, I loved reading Pans Labyrinth, La vita e bella, other films and most operas I see, so it isn't the super-titles...it was the wretched piece of dreck...UGH!!!!)

Just looked up another one - Blair Witch Project. It has an 87% score but I thought it was the biggest piece of crap I had seen in years and failed abysmally at living up to the hype.

I was so bored during the first 30 minutes when absolutely nothing happened, and the rest of it didn't really get much better.

michaelm wrote:Just looked up another one - Blair Witch Project. It has an 87% score but I thought it was the biggest piece of crap I had seen in years and failed abysmally at living up to the hype.

That movie scared the crap out of me, even though I knew the story. It got under my skin somehow and kept on going. I saw it when I was in my early thirties and I had nightmares for two days afterwards

u.

Nothing could have lived up to the hype Blair Witch got.

Blair Witch was one that you either got, and thought it was good to great, or didn't get at all and found it boring as hell.

I thought it was great, really creepy and weird. But some of that boring stuff at the beginning is important later on.

ussusimiel wrote:

michaelm wrote:Just looked up another one - Blair Witch Project. It has an 87% score but I thought it was the biggest piece of crap I had seen in years and failed abysmally at living up to the hype.

That movie scared the crap out of me, even though I knew the story. It got under my skin somehow and kept on going. I saw it when I was in my early thirties and I had nightmares for two days afterwards

u.

Same here. I saw it with a friend and we literally stood by the car and shook for a good 5 minutes before we were able to drive away from the theater (to a pub, where we got knackered).

I understood the intent of Blair Witch, but didn't find any of it scary. I generally like implied terror rather than the hack and slash gore horror movies, but it all seemed to be so directionless and almost without plot.

4 of us went to see it, one fell asleep during the first 30 minutes and the other 3 of us really had a feeling of "meh" after seeing it.

Yeah, I never understood the hype for it...didn't catch me at all.

--A

Avatar wrote:Yeah, I never understood the hype for it...didn't catch me at all.

--A

I just wish I hadn't been taken in by it, but I've go nobody else but myself to blame.