Well, after seeing this review and the one for Max, I can officially say, Matt HATES kids movies. Of course, I probably would too, but man does he get a hate boner for anything meant for kids.
NOPE!sageoftruth said:Well, after seeing this review and the one for Max, I can officially say, Matt HATES kids movies. Of course, I probably would too, but man does he get a hate boner for anything meant for kids.
Marter is under no obligation to agree with the general public on all points. I don't see why he should be required to find something to like about a movie he couldn't stand.JustMakingAComment said:When a reviewer pans a film that many people like, particularly by claiming to be annoyed that it wasn't a more intellectual film, then it comes off as pretentious and a failure to perform their job effectively.
If you can't like a movie a little, then you don't understand it at all.
I love them too, because reviews for broad audiences tend to be pretty useless. Instead of saying what the reviewer thinks about a movie, the broad reviewer will instead tell you what he thinks the general public will think about a movie. This results in wishy washy reviews that are uninteresting to read and not useful to anyone due to trying to appeal to everyone.camazotz said:I love movie reviewers who are incapable of pulling back and actually giving a reivew that will help a broad audience make a decision, rather than a narrow perspective that relates only to the reviewer and his or her very specific set of elitist needs.
Probably because children have no taste, I know I enjoyed some utter garbage when I was a kid. A lot of kids like anything that has silly little men fooling around and hitting eachother. I don't see why it should go without saying that Minions is a kids movie. Despicable Me was a movie that was enjoyable for people of any age, so assuming that the spinoff would be the same seems reasonable to me. Granted, Despicable Me 2 was a pile of tripe and anybody who saw that movie should know the direction the series was headed, but anybody who hadn't seen it could still be under the impression that Minions was aiming to be quality film for the whole family.camazotz said:For example, at the end of the article you imply six year olds and under might appreciate it. How? Why? What makes this claim valid other than that per your review you must have a lot of contempt for young children, too? (EDIT: this seems relevant, since I don't think ANYONE except the reviewer thought this was a film for an older audience.)
Speak for yourself.Nazulu said:we don't come to read something so hate filled unless you can make it amusing.
Don't you think you're going a bit far, there? Like, in the same way Marter is in the review?Ihateregistering1 said:"That's right. Sandra Bullock went from getting an Oscar nomination in Gravity to voicing a character in Minions. I'm pretty sure this is proof positive that there's a problem for women over 40 to get good roles in Hollywood."
Hmmm, let's see. Sandra Bullock is turning 51 this month, which means she turned 40 in 2004. Since 2004, she has:
-Been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress (Gravity)
-Won an Oscar, Golden Globe, SAG award, AND Broadcast film critics award for Best Actress (Blind Side)
-Been in a movie that won the best picture Oscar (Crash)
-Won a women in film Crystal award
-Was rated among the top 100 movie stars of all time.
If these are "problems", what does the author define as success? Does she need to cure cancer?
Ugh, I was really hoping that the departure of MovieBob would mean we could get movie reviews without the smug pretentiousness and lazy attempts at injecting social justice advocacy into just about everything, but it seems like we've just traded in one who made videos for one who just writes columns.
No, it's not a good look to spew overly dramatic hipitibob. I mean, I don't mind at all when a critic says it's stupid or just plain shit (along with the reasons why), but to go out and say it's the death to all things good (for example) is just silly.Drathnoxis said:Speak for yourself.Nazulu said:we don't come to read something so hate filled unless you can make it amusing.
Well, reviewing movies works a little differently than just 'to each their own.' It's about quantifying your opinion so that readers can see if your reasons for your opinion would invoke a similar opinion for theirs, or whether the opposite would happen.Caramel Frappe said:Aw .. but, minions man. They're funny, for the most part- though to each their own. My dad believe it or not, craved to see this. He REALLY loves minions so we'll be seeing it. Probably will still entertain me & all BUT yeah, not expecting this to be amazing or anything.
Exactly. The entire point of Minions is that it's aimed at children, people who enjoy the slapstick and stupidity far more than adults. You can't review a kid's movie and say it's shit when you're not the target audience.JustMakingAComment said:When a reviewer pans a film that many people like, particularly by claiming to be annoyed that it wasn't a more intellectual film, then it comes off as pretentious and a failure to perform their job effectively.
If you can't like a movie a little, then you don't understand it at all.
Yea, I can understand he disliked the concept, but if all you have to offer is a personal rant, then you shouldn't be writing reviews professionally.JustMakingAComment said:When a reviewer pans a film that many people like, particularly by claiming to be annoyed that it wasn't a more intellectual film, then it comes off as pretentious and a failure to perform their job effectively.
If you can't like a movie a little, then you don't understand it at all.
I disagree, that'd make a lot of movies un-reviewable. What's key is that a critic has to be able to leave his personal perspective behind and discuss a movie both in its context and from a more neutral point of view. Appreciating and liking something isn't the same, after all; I appreciate FIFA for being a solid football game, but I don't even remotely like it.talker said:Exactly. The entire point of Minions is that it's aimed at children, people who enjoy the slapstick and stupidity far more than adults. You can't review a kid's movie and say it's shit when you're not the target audience.JustMakingAComment said:When a reviewer pans a film that many people like, particularly by claiming to be annoyed that it wasn't a more intellectual film, then it comes off as pretentious and a failure to perform their job effectively.
If you can't like a movie a little, then you don't understand it at all.
He didn't say it was the last straw, he said it's movies like this that give people reason to dismiss animated movies. You know, like the ones you mentioned.Callate said:And there have been a lot of crappy cartoon movies, and crappy CG cartoon movies (do I need to remind anyone of The Nut Job? Or Alpha and Omega...?) so you'll forgive me if I find it a tad hard to believe that this particular product-pusher is the straw that has broken the camel's back, the insufferable insult that has besmirched the face of respectable animation for all time.
He did explain why it would be appreciated by six year olds. He said it was a colorful distraction of slapstick.camazotz said:I love movie reviewers who are incapable of pulling back and actually giving a reivew that will help a broad audience make a decision, rather than a narrow perspective that relates only to the reviewer and his or her very specific set of elitist needs.
For example, at the end of the article you imply six year olds and under might appreciate it. How? Why? What makes this claim valid other than that per your review you must have a lot of contempt for young children, too? (EDIT: this seems relevant, since I don't think ANYONE except the reviewer thought this was a film for an older audience.)
>-<......Really?JustMakingAComment said:When a reviewer pans a film that many people like, particularly by claiming to be annoyed that it wasn't a more intellectual film, then it comes off as pretentious and a failure to perform their job effectively.
If you can't like a movie a little, then you don't understand it at all.
This.09philj said:This film has really divided critics. You hated it, Mark Kermode really liked it, and a lot lie somewhere in between. It's odd that it's an inoffensive children's film should be the subject of such wildly differing opinions.