This is your film on democratic review

[jack]

I was reading the imdb reviews for recent films, and was amused at the consensusity.

Date Movie

* This movie is one of the most horrible experiences of my life.
* Its true. Everything you've read is true. This really, really, really is the worst parody ever.
* This movie was so bad that ... that I couldn't come up with the vocabulary to describe how I felt about it.
* IT IS NOT FUNNY.
* This movie is one of the most horrible experiences of my life.
* If I could vote it 0, believe me I would. Watching paint dry would be a more cultural experience.
* They actually re-created scenes from existing comedy movies & virtually did them note for note. Can somebody explain the word parody to the film makers???
* Random scenes pop up, trying to get a laugh by basically reenacting the scene, not exaggerating it or making fun of it.
* This has got to be one of the worst parody movies ever. No, wait - scratch that. This is one of the worst movies ever.
* I didn't think it would be that bad. I'd say that's the worst parody I've ever seen.
* This movie is not just bad, awful, disgusting (pick your favourite) but is nasty and cruel. Did I mention "not funny"?

Whoah. I wasn't going to quote so much, but feel the vitriol? Did someone bribe people to review it negatively? Literally literally every review on the first page says something like this. There about three sentences of mitigation in the entire thing, with such praise as might be worth watching if you've never seen a parody movie (most authors disagreed) and 2% of the movie had some moments that had some redeeming features.

I normally make a fetish out finding the good in works everyone else hates, but I might not bother.

Of course, I didn't see page two. Maybe a gang of friends slated it for a laugh. Well, they did a good job, there's true art in a completely merciless tearing apart.

Lucky Number Slevin and Inside Man

Here, every review for both said "I was expecting a standard crime caper, but the plot was intricate if initially confusing, the dialog snappy and funny without sapping the tension, the acting good, the action continuous and sometimes graphicly violent. I wasn't sure what to expect, but it turned out really well."

Also, they were both compared to The Sting, one of the most beautiful movies ever, and if you've ever heard me exclaim "Those aren't Paul Newman's hands shuffling!" you'd be less puzzled if you'd seen it.

I think at least one of these should be watched.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Both!

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

oops

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Both what? Both should be watched? Though if you're still in Norwich we'd have to have a distributed cinema trip :)

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

Both should be watched, because I couldn't choose between them. With spending days in Cambridge (and there ought to be more of those, as I do my studying at UL), cinema there is as easy as in Norwich. Provided I find out in time: sometimes I get back here, log on, and discover that there was an interesting arrangement that I've just missed.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. Back-to-back would be a bit much, but I hope to get to both at some point.

provided I find out in time: sometimes I get back here, log on, and discover that there was an interesting arrangement that I've just missed.

I know the feeling, I've taken to checking -- briefly -- before ever going out, just in case. I was thinking maybe one or the other on saturday, but I don't suppose that's your librariest day :)

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

It can be a Cambridge afternoon or evening, because work->Norwich is 45-60 minutes and work->Cambridge is 60-75 minutes.

This weekend is not yet planned, though there are possibilities. Cambridge is on the way to all of them, and a small detour for a few hours would be easy. I prefer not too late because I have to find somewhere to sleep afterwards :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

When I'm feeling competant to have company (unfortunately not as often as would be nice) Mole is known to burrow into my spare room. You would be welcome to do the same occasionally.

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to contact pseudomonas to see if I could stay there, but if not, may I use your spare room post-cinema?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if anyone else is interested :( but I still want to go. I'll arrange where to meet tonight, too?

if not, may I use your spare room post-cinema?

Yes, please do. This weekend I'm blessedly free of anything, so you'd be very welcome.

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

Pizza first is good. In case it doesn't get arranged online, my mobile phone number is on a post near the top of my journal. It will be sans signal tomorrow for 2-3 hours while I'm at work.

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

Had I thought to do this at the time, I would have wrote a review of a film starting "This film made me feel physically sick - so much so that I left the cinema before the film ended", and still given it a decent review and a good score.

The film was Dogville - the wobbly Dogme95-esque camera work gave me serious motion sickness.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL.