Whenever we read/hear/watch an opinion piece on a film/game we haven't personally viewed yet we often base our opinion of that film on the piece. However if we eventually do decide to watch/play it we find we have a different view than the one we formed based on that initial review.
So pretty straight forward - is there a film/book/game you've read reviews of before buying, formed an opinion on that media only to watch/read/play it and find you have a completely different view?
For me a good example is the Green Lantern movie. Wasn't that fussed about seeing it anyway - was a dvd movie, not a cinema movie - but after watching the MovieBob review [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/3557-Green-Lantern] and all the other threads/posts about how god awful the film was I decided it wasn't even worth the dvd.
The other day it was on a movies channel and I decided what the hell; watched it and all I could think at the end was "meh". Don't get me wrong this movie is not 'great', and nowhere near the quality of the Marvel movies, but it's not the steaming turd people had made it out to be. The action scenes were passable, the CGI was ok (actually worked quite well for the suit in my opinion) and the story, while not Iron Man quality, did the job. Maybe I wasn't as invested as a GL fan would be but this film was at worst a typical action movie.
So pretty straight forward - is there a film/book/game you've read reviews of before buying, formed an opinion on that media only to watch/read/play it and find you have a completely different view?
For me a good example is the Green Lantern movie. Wasn't that fussed about seeing it anyway - was a dvd movie, not a cinema movie - but after watching the MovieBob review [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/3557-Green-Lantern] and all the other threads/posts about how god awful the film was I decided it wasn't even worth the dvd.
The other day it was on a movies channel and I decided what the hell; watched it and all I could think at the end was "meh". Don't get me wrong this movie is not 'great', and nowhere near the quality of the Marvel movies, but it's not the steaming turd people had made it out to be. The action scenes were passable, the CGI was ok (actually worked quite well for the suit in my opinion) and the story, while not Iron Man quality, did the job. Maybe I wasn't as invested as a GL fan would be but this film was at worst a typical action movie.