What general film/series have you just seen.. marks out of 5

[Shingster]

Nothing wrong with appreciating a film more than liking it and marking up because of that, but I was going on your original post and wording, which basically says you wern't keen on it nor would you recommend it to anyone, but it's well made so 4/5!! That's a little much!

[luckystars]

No no. I meant (but didn't say) I'd be more likely to talk about with friends who appreciate movies or a horror/zombie nut. No just like a bud at work, or invite someone round for a vid night and stick it on. Or randomly lend it to someone not knowing what they're into etc.

[HungFist]

Totally disagree. What is a critic for if you can only enjoy the things he likes...by being him?

Example 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' rated 1/10

Reason I don't like dramas.

What do ratings have to do with good reviews? Nothing. The just happen to be on the same page.

A review analyzes the film. Rating is just an additional summary of the personal opinion slapped at the end.

Seriously kids, don't tell me you still value ratings critics give films??? That you let 1/5 or 5/5 rating affect on your viewing decisions??

No. That's not what I'm saying at all. Or what were talking about.

Then what are you saying?

Theoretically speaking I don't see anything wrong with the Cuckoo's Nest 1/10 rating. Of course, in practice I suppose (*) it would take pretty damn good reasoning not to make your film taste look like a horse's ass. But it wouldn't make the review any worse, and hence (writing reviews being a critic's job) the reviewer any less useful.

A good review
1) analyzes the film objectively (= provide the information the reader needs)
2) explains the critics own opinion (= provide entertainment for the reader)

The rating... it's just like the star in Mercedes Benz. There just for the sake of look.

Should I have slammed it instead of pointing out the good bits too?

Here we again. The rating is your sledge hammer. The review is your constructive tool. As far as you're allowed to write, there's no contradiction between disliking and appreciating the one and same film. You can express both aspects.

As for Gas' 1/5 rating for The Beyond I don't have any problem with that. I was just wondering how on earth he managed to develop such a poor taste And with not a single word of comments, I was forced to ask him.

[luckystars]

Now I don't get what your point is. Other than stating some pretty obvious things about good reviews/reviewers.

[HungFist]

ok, we're in dis-understandment (is that a word? ). Let's move on.

[luckystars]

ok, we're in dis-understandment (is that a word? ). Let's move on.

Ok, I'll draw a line under it -------------> our dis-understandment

[HungFist]

ok, we're in dis-understandment (is that a word? ). Let's move on.

Ok, I'll draw a line under it -------------> our dis-understandment

Now it looks like you wrote it. People will think you're stupid. Ha-ha!






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[luckystars]

Fucking hell. That's like Tweeting you're out of Toilet paper or something

[Markgway]

I've seen 'The Beyond', 'Zombie', 'City of the Living Dead' and 30 mins of 'House By the Cemetery' (I tried twice but couldn't get past the half hour mark). Don't care for any of them to be honest. I think they're all rather poorly made and cheesy. Sure, there are the expected gross-out set-pieces, but that's all there is, and if like me you're not a gorehound there's really no reason to watch.

[saltysam]

City Of The Living Dead is a great movie.Genuinely eerie,the buried alive sequence early on is up there with the best sequences in movie history

[romerojpg]

I've seen 'The Beyond', 'Zombie', 'City of the Living Dead' and 30 mins of 'House By the Cemetery' (I tried twice but couldn't get past the half hour mark).

God I shudder sitting though them pieces of cinematic garbage ever again, His films are like a list of the worst films I have seen in my life

Zombie / Zombie Flesh Eaters is the only "film" he has made, I think everything he has ever done bar that film is just as bad as films get, incomprehensible trash.

He makes Argento look good, and that is hard to do.

[saltysam]

He makes Argento look good, and that is hard to do.

See,i can accept the Fulci slating as he's very much an acquired taste.But you reckon Argento hasn't made any good films?

[romerojpg]

I really cannot get even one Argento film, hate the mad style and the films bore me to death more of an acquired taste than silly Fulci films thats for sure.

[saltysam]

I really cannot get even one Argento film, hate the mad style and the films bore me to death more of an acquired taste than silly Fulci films thats for sure.

Aren't you a fan of Paul WS Anderson?would he say he's a better director than Fulci or Argento?

[romerojpg]

You are obsessed with bringning Anderson into every conversion

Anderson is an Oscar winning director compared to them hacks.

[bradavon]

Yet Oscars suck?

[saltysam]

You are obsessed with bringning Anderson into every conversion

not really,it's just that you slate the likes of Argento while not having a word said against Anderson,who at best is a journeyman director.He's never come close to producing a memorable scene in a movie like Fulci & Argento have.

Anderson is an Oscar winning director compared to them hacks.

Any director who coaxes a performance from an actor as bad as the one he got from that guy who played Wesker in Afterlife is not a director to be taken seriously

[bradavon]

i rate films on whether i like them or not,not because they are well made.for example 2001 & Blade Runner are well made but both bored me to tears so they'd both get low marks from me

Surely most rate on what they think of the film? If a film is very well made, it should be included in the rating though.

ok, we're in dis-understandment (is that a word? ). Let's move on.

No . WTF were you trying to say? Did you mean misunderstood?

[romerojpg]

Salty not at all, I hear every bad word about Anderson and his films. I just couldn't give a shit
I dont cry and run out to defend films like most people do, what I like I like. I couldn't care less if everyone in the world hates films I like - Others sadly dont think like that and want blood when you say even one small bad thing about "Their" films

I dont see the point in defending every film someone stranger on the net dislikes. They are wrong you are always right

Yet Oscars suck?

Nahh! you dont say

[bradavon]

Like you've never defended a film, others dislike.

[saltysam]

yeah but what did you think of the performance from the guy playing Wesker!it was fucking awful!

[gasteropod]

(yes the spider scene looks crap, but there's no way to convincingly film tarantulas biting someone's face off without CGI is there?)

I was actually referring to the two fake ones approaching his face in a really comedic manner, not the biting bit.

I don't think The Beyond is imaginative at all, because basically all this film consists of is a jar of acid spilling on a woman's face, a spider attack, a killer dog scene stolen straight from Suspiria, and some zombies looking menacingly at people. If a gateway to Hell is opened, I'd expect much more.

P.S. After the comments on here I gave it another viewing late last night, I'd say it bored me less than the first time, but ultimately I'm sticking to my guns I'm afraid.

[romerojpg]

Wesker - he did exactly what he was required to. I didn't really see any problem at all with the guy. He was 10 times better than the dire game voice actors ever do in the entire series. It is what it is, silly entertainment. Its not like Wesker lives next door to me in reality and is a real guy mind you our neighbor is a inbred zombie, but he dont have special powers.

Like you've never defended a film, others dislike.

Defend is a strong word

[saltysam]

Buried 3/5 Well made thriller with an interesting concept.Ryan Reynolds wakes up in a coffin somewhere in Iraq with only a lighter & a Mobile phone slowly dying for company.Very claustrophobic,Reynolds gives a good performance,he's on screen throughout the whole 95 minutes.This uk BD has for some reason been cropped to 1:77:1, the USA one is apparently 2:35:1

[Markgway]

BODY OF LIES ***
Absorbing, intelligent thriller.

PROM NIGHT **
Standard issue remake with an uncommon lack of bloodshed.

THE PRESTIGE ***
Impressive, complex puzzle from the Batman team.

TIMECOP **1/2
Flawed, but entertaining action-sci-fi comic adaptation.