The incorrectness of professional critics

[Valiere]

I agree with critics most of the time. I like that they tend to have a conscience regarding movies and slam any they feel are mean-spirited or offensive. The last time I recall disagreeing with critics was regarding a chick flick called "Rachel Getting Married"...the critics loved it, I found it completely tedious and filled with long stretches of musicians playing rather than any attempt to move along the story.

The only time you should disregard the critics is if you're seeing a movie that's purposely silly and off-the-wall, like a Ben Stiller or Vince Vaughn comedy. They tend to look for some sort of artistic merit in movies that don't need any. Although I should say that critics are getting better about this ("Dodgeball" got good reviews because critics saw it as wacky, generally good-natured fun).

[Uberpwn_w00t]

I actually do find that many professional critics seem to be writing from the perspective of a fifteen-eyed, soulless, nitpicking space alien rather than, you know, a human being. It doesn't have to be flawless to enjoy it... Jesus.

[SaiKar]

Dodgeball was AWESOME.

[HobomasterXXX]

Of course the Playstation magazine will praise it. But that other thingy that called it the best final fantasy of all time deserves a kidney shot. I believed them to be gin with, and all other reviews and such. But when i finally completed the game I only felt emptiness since i wasted a good couple of hours on a game so crappy.

But it's all opinion. Someone who hates turn based/ATB/whatever gameplay could well think it is the best Final Fantasy.

[Legacy of Elecrusher]

If anyone thinks that XII was better than VI, I will gladly kill them. Words hath been mended.
 

But it's all opinion. Someone who hates turn based/ATB/whatever gameplay could well think it is the best Final Fantasy.

I'd just get XI if I were them. :V Less screwy gameplay.

[fruckert]

If anyone thinks that XII was better than VI, I will gladly kill them.

Fixed?
I hope so.
VI was awesome.

[Legacy of Elecrusher]

If anyone thinks that XII was better than VI, I will gladly kill them.

Fixed?
I hope so.
VI was awesome.

Counter fixed. Yeah, I don't know what happened there.

[fruckert]

Neither do I.

[Darkfox]

Ah, FF6... one of the last FFs I actually enjoyed.

[Deathreaper]

Even movies have objective flaws and upsides. They can be actually spotted by someone who wants to use less opinion. However, critics just do whatever instead of their jobs, usually. 95% of all modern films are bad. So I don't care very much for their reviews. I just stay in the past when people actually knew how to act and special effects worked more.

[Cerebus]

But back then, these special effect were actually awesome considering the lack of technology compared to today's.
And special effect don't mean much if the story or acting suck, just like a video game with incredible graphics but shitty gameplay and story aren't necessarily fun.
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.

[Deathreaper]

But back then, these special effect were actually awesome considering the lack of technology compared to today's.
And special effect don't mean much if the story or acting suck, just like a video game with incredible graphics but shitty gameplay and story aren't necessarily fun.
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.

You got a point there and I agree

But concerning special effects, in this present day we're in the sort of illusion that good special effects are CGI. While they can be, they're no replacement to a simple effect or a costume or puppet if one is available. CGI has been abused heavily in this day and age, where the effects don't really look organic. Costumes and such used correctly do better in my opinion than a CGI character depending on how it's done. Typically the CGI conflicts with the natural environment, rather than blends with it as much as possible. This is why I think that puppets and costumes should still be used if it'll work in the context of the movie.

But all in all, it's how the CGI is done. It's just been way abused in my opinion, so I can actually say because older movies special effects blend in better to the environment of that movie, I say that 10, 20 years ago special effects are better than they have been in the past 5 years, but this is me

[Deathreaper]

I don't mean Avatar or anything. I mean for just general effects themselves. And I can't be very specific right now, I got a thousand people IMing me >_> What I mean is, do they have to have CG replace EVERYTHING? I mean, they would go out of their way to replace any given effect, be it an unusual character, flames, blood or shattering glass. Since those type of effects don't look that much like the actual object they are supposed to be representing except when it comes to shape, I can say that the older effects would be better in that context.

Like I said, you can tell when CG is there. It very rarely blends in with movies nowadays. Movies back then when they used actual explosions and the like where more believable with their effects since those effect blended in since they were actually tangible. CG can look rather tangible and fitting to the movie, but this depends on how they pull it off.

[Darkfox]

What we are seeing today is the McDonaldization of modern films. Quantity over quality. The same plot (or lack thereof) tweaked and reused. And of course, critics will give it great reviews for some special effects and features and not mention the cons. They make money for giving POSITIVE reviews, while negative ones can get them fired. Has happened before... =/

Anyways, we get a lot of cheap plot and story movies that make little or no sense and are full of gaping holes. Or cover the plot holes but the movie is still cheap and not worth sitting through.

[supasora]

If anyone thinks that XII was better than VI, I will gladly kill them. Words hath been mended.
 I'd just get XI if I were them. :V Less screwy gameplay.

Man I hated Final Fantasy 6. I couldnt stand tina branford. But the concept art for the game is cool, I'll give it that.