You know, the difference in your, and your fellow critics' opinion, and say, the opinion of everyone else, captures perfectly the void between people who get paid to watch and review movies for a living, and people who do it recreationally.
Just because something isn't intellectual on all grounds, doesn't mean it can't be fun. So, if you're going to watch this movie, and you don't like wearing a monocle and pointing out how much better you are than everyone else when in fact you have no real reason to because you are most likely, in fact, the one everyone points out how much better they are than, then yes, you'll enjoy the fuck out of this movie.
If you want to see a bunch of iconic movie stars all in the same place beating the crap out of everything and eachother, and if you're the type of person who enjoys Mortal Kombat as a series for the, you know, just plain unrestrained violence every once in a while, then go see this movie. You will not be disappointed.
Back to my original, more constructive point. Guys, Bob, like most critics, is a critic. On top of usually being jaded on an extreme level (expertise in cinema), unless you share the exact same interest in movies that they do, you shouldn't take their words as more than a grain of salt. A movie they find good, may not be that great, for you, because the way they judge movies is different, and hell if I'll say better (it's not) than the way you or I judge them.
If you want real advice on whether or not to see a movie, and you aren't a critic, your peers are your best people to turn to. For, unless your peers, those that you would turn to for advice, are critics themselves, you are at a fundamental disconnect with people like Bob; this is by no means a bad thing, it just means you, like me, don't watch as many movies.
It'd be like, if I decided to critique guitars and decided to give everyone a slap on the wrist for buying Schecter because their old C8s have shorter scale lengths in an effort to balance the high and low ends, while taking away all versatility in the tuning. You won't care if you're not a hardcore guitar nut or at least someone who knows alot about guitars. They play nice, resonate sound well, and they look pretty and have great specs for the price. That's enough for most people to buy them and enjoy them. Doesn't make you less of a person. Should I really expect everyone to know all of that stuff and how to differentiate it? No. Should I call them idiots or gawk at their 'intellectual inferiority' because they don't? Fuck no. Am I making my point yet? I don't know.
Just because something isn't intellectual on all grounds, doesn't mean it can't be fun. So, if you're going to watch this movie, and you don't like wearing a monocle and pointing out how much better you are than everyone else when in fact you have no real reason to because you are most likely, in fact, the one everyone points out how much better they are than, then yes, you'll enjoy the fuck out of this movie.
If you want to see a bunch of iconic movie stars all in the same place beating the crap out of everything and eachother, and if you're the type of person who enjoys Mortal Kombat as a series for the, you know, just plain unrestrained violence every once in a while, then go see this movie. You will not be disappointed.
Back to my original, more constructive point. Guys, Bob, like most critics, is a critic. On top of usually being jaded on an extreme level (expertise in cinema), unless you share the exact same interest in movies that they do, you shouldn't take their words as more than a grain of salt. A movie they find good, may not be that great, for you, because the way they judge movies is different, and hell if I'll say better (it's not) than the way you or I judge them.
If you want real advice on whether or not to see a movie, and you aren't a critic, your peers are your best people to turn to. For, unless your peers, those that you would turn to for advice, are critics themselves, you are at a fundamental disconnect with people like Bob; this is by no means a bad thing, it just means you, like me, don't watch as many movies.
It'd be like, if I decided to critique guitars and decided to give everyone a slap on the wrist for buying Schecter because their old C8s have shorter scale lengths in an effort to balance the high and low ends, while taking away all versatility in the tuning. You won't care if you're not a hardcore guitar nut or at least someone who knows alot about guitars. They play nice, resonate sound well, and they look pretty and have great specs for the price. That's enough for most people to buy them and enjoy them. Doesn't make you less of a person. Should I really expect everyone to know all of that stuff and how to differentiate it? No. Should I call them idiots or gawk at their 'intellectual inferiority' because they don't? Fuck no. Am I making my point yet? I don't know.
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