James is a professional movie critic? I thought he just liked to talk about movies a lot.Exley97 said:If you think it's totally kosher for a professional critic to render a verdict on a movie while declaring that he will never actually see that movie, then yes, it's totally not news.cleric of the order said:Guy refuse to review movie for personal reasons and because he doesn't think it will be good.
This is news somehow.
Can i be news?
Serious question: what would the reaction be here if a professional critic said he refused to review the new Doom title and said in no uncertain terms that the game looked awful and it was going to fail, all based on the trailers?
Again, if Rolfe wants to skip it because he does't think it looks good (he doesn't) and his affinity for the original is too great (it is), then that's fine. I have no issue with that. I used to skip movies I thought would be shit ALL THE TIME when I reviewed. I wouldn't be caught dead reviewing a Transformers movie. But what I absolutely DID NOT do was get up on a soapbox and announce to the world that I would not be reviewing the next Transformers sequel because I knew for a fact the movie was going to be sh*t and it was going to be awful and bash the movie after seeing nothing but a couple trailers. If you're average movie fans wants to do that, fine. But a professional critic shouldn't be judging a movie based on the trailers if he's not going to actually sit down and watch the whole film.cleric of the order said:I mean i wasn't going to watch the movie because it looks like shit and there has NEVER been a self titled reboot movie that has turned out alright.
This is just good sense.
Also, part of the reason James isn't seeing this is because of something most critics today seem to lack. That oh so scary word; Ethics.
See, part of being a movie critic is that when you go and see a movie, you have to be able to do so without bias. You can't go into a movie expecting it to be crap, because that will end up influencing you to some degree or another. James admitted that he wouldn't be able to stop comparing the reboot to the original, so he wouldn't be able to be as fair to it as he should be. So, rather than review something he KNOWS he's not gonna be fair to, he's recusing himself.
Expecting him to review the movie anyway would be like expecting a NASCAR fan who hates Kevin Harvick to be able to give an unbiased review of the latest races as of this posting.