Reviews that didn't age well.

[MGibster]

There were public libraries in the United States that banned The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain in 1885 characterizing it as characterizing it as "rough, coarse, and inelegant, dealing with a series of experiences not elevating, the whole book being more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people."

 

[Thomas Shey]

I'm always one of the outliers that thought the ending of GoT was flawed but acceptable.

 

[pukunui]

I'm always one of the outliers that thought the ending of GoT was flawed but acceptable.

I'll second that. I didn't mind how things turned out. It was more how they got there -- and how quickly. The last few seasons felt too rushed. If they'd been able to maintain the pace of the early seasons, the ending may have been more widely accepted.

 

[Zardnaar]

I'll second that. I didn't mind how things turned out. It was more how they got there -- and how quickly. The last few seasons felt too rushed. If they'd been able to maintain the pace of the early seasons, the ending may have been more widely accepted.

I did a recent rewatch. The fate of most of te characters makes some amount of sense even if it's not what we wanted. Eg Jon goes north thats understandable.

Season 6 was the last good season the last good episodes were in the final season the first two.

Pacing and execution was off though. Eg don't build up a Jon/Nightking confrontation and then "subvert expectations".

The show started going downhill after Tywin and Joffrey's deaths imho. Accurate to the books but they were so so good the show never adequately replaced them.


Probably needed 2 more seasons and season 7 and 8 being full seasons.

 

[payn]

This Siskel and Ebert review of Revenge of the Nerds where they talk about the underdog story at expense of all the sexism. I know at the time, these depictions were seen as screwball comedy, but its pretty bad. S&B even indicate they think so, but go on about what they liked about the film anyways.

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

The first two sentences from Roger Ebert's review of The Thing (1982):

I don't know what Ebert was smoking in 1982, but The Thing is widely considered to be one of the better science fiction movies from the decade. I didn't find the characters' behavior implausible nor did I find their characterizations superficial. It's just a great movie. I watched it a few years ago, and it's still a great movie.

You have to admit he was dead-on when he reviewed Pink Flamingos:

I am not giving a star rating to Pink Flamingos, because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object.​

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

I did a recent rewatch. The fate of most of te characters makes some amount of sense even if it's not what we wanted. Eg Jon goes north thats understandable.

Season 6 was the last good season the last good episodes were in the final season the first two.

Pacing and execution was off though. Eg don't build up a Jon/Nightking confrontation and then "subvert expectations".

I hate how hard people want to go into the 'subvert expectations' thing in recent memory. I've never really thought about it until I'd discovered the podcast Babylon 5 For the First Time where two Star Trek guys finally sit down and get into Babylon 5. There are certain things they talk about where, yeah, this event was probably a surprise Back Then, but we've seen it so many times since it's not. Really in a long form, I don't think 'subvert expectations' should come up more than 10% of the time especially in material where you've had to worldbuild since S1E1

 

[pukunui]

Really in a long form, I don't think 'subvert expectations' should come up more than 10% of the time especially in material where you've had to worldbuild since S1E1

I certainly wasn't expecting that Arya would be the one to kill the Night King rather than Jon and/or Bran. I also wasn't expecting Jaime to abandon his redemption arc. I also wasn't really expecting Jon to get with his aunt and then kill her, although I was kind of expecting her heel-turn. I guess I also wasn't expecting Bran to end up as king. My expectations were thus subverted a number of times by the end of the show.

(I'm just focusing on the ending. I'm sure other expectations were subverted throughout the show, including Ned's death in S1.)

 

[Sacrosanct]

Dragon magazine's 1981 review of Conan the Barbarian. The review tore the movie apart.

 

[Smackpixi]

The Guardian article highlighted how boring as shell Good Omens is to randos, none of those quotes were the least bit arousing. I’m with Joe’s review. I know that’s not popular but the books pretend at profundity, and are overrated by genre fans. I allow that others love, but, fine hate me, boring, not new, affected pedestrian stuff.