Reviews that didn't age well.

[Smackpixi]

It’s no pg wood house, or it is, derivative whatever, not masterpiece

 

[Thomas Shey]

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.

The last season in particular was definitely rushed. But past that, nothing happened they hadn't been signaling for literally years.

 

[Zardnaar]

The last season in particular was definitely rushed. But past that, nothing happened they hadn't been signaling for literally years.

It was more the execution and jobbing the Night King out. Bran as well.

Dany ending up a tyrant was somewhat predictable her heel turn was poor.

And everything was really rushed season 7/8.

Most of the surviving characters fates may not be what we wanted but makes sense for the characters. Cleganebowl, Dany, Jamie, Cersei basic fate was fine theoretically the execution....

 

[Thomas Shey]

It was more the execution and jobbing the Night King out. Bran as well.

Dany ending up a tyrant was somewhat predictable her heel turn was poor.

And everything was really rushed season 7/8.

Most of the surviving characters fates may not be what we wanted but makes sense for the characters. Cleganebowl, Dany, Jamie, Cersei basic fate was fine theoretically the execution....

See, I didn't even see the execution as bad. And again, they'd set up how things played our for the Night King for along time; people just payed attention to the slight of hand with Jon and didn't notice. Heck, I was seeing suggestions that Arya might actually be the prince two seasons earlier.

 

[Zardnaar]

See, I didn't even see the execution as bad. And again, they'd set up how things played our for the Night King for along time; people just payed attention to the slight of hand with Jon and didn't notice. Heck, I was seeing suggestions that Arya might actually be the prince two seasons earlier.

I remember the discussion about the prince coukd also be female but can't recall any Arya hints.
And they had been playing up the Jon vs NK since season 5 not vague hints it was someone else.

Everything was really rushed eg Jamie pulling a 180 from one episode to the next. I can buy into him failing at his redemption (hes a PoS lets face it) arc but once again very poor execution imho.

Most of the characters fate was fine I suspect George gave them the ending he was planning but they were incapable of executing it well. They also got dumped from Star Wars shortly after as well remember. Dont think they've done anything significant since.

 

[Deset Gled]

On the original topic, Falling Down is a movie that had a handful of critics who reeeeeealy missed the point of the movie. I've been hunting for a couple of the ones that screwed up an actually thought Michael Douglas was the "hero", and I'm finding that a lot of them have been scrubbed from the internet. Specifically, Wikipedia notes that Kenneth Turan wrote a review where he though DFENS was the hero, but if you search the LA Times website for it, all you'll find on the free side of the site are a couple of follow up commentaries arguing with his original critique.

I was going to argue with Ebert's original review of "Brazil", because I think he's much too negative and complains about it being "hard to follow". But after thinking about it, it's possible that the directors cut of the movie might have made a big difference in his critique. The version I'm most familiar with is the longer Criterion cut, and it does a notably better job of fleshing out some details.

 

[MGibster]

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

You have to understand that they didn't get Conan's hair right. Had I known Conan from books there's a good chance the movie would have annoyed me. As it was, I was far too young the first time I saw the movie (6 or 7), and the books would have been way beyond my abilities to read and comprehend. (I'm pretty sure Conan came out in 1982.)

 

[MGibster]

On the original topic, Falling Down is a movie that had a handful of critics who reeeeeealy missed the point of the movie. I've been hunting for a couple of the ones that screwed up an actually thought Michael Douglas was the "hero", and I'm finding that a lot of them have been scrubbed from the internet.

Based on the advertising campaign, I walked into Falling Down thinking Douglas was playing the hero. The television ads were edited in such a way that Douglas appeared to be playing the everyman who was either having a really bad day or was just fed up with it, whatever it was, but as the movie progressed you could see that his character was unhinged. I saw it in the theater while I was still in high school and even I could tell he wasn't the good guy.

 

[Deset Gled]

Based on the advertising campaign,

I will openly admit I don't remember the ads. What are the odds at least a couple critics who got it wrong are the ones that phoned it in and didn't watch the full movie? Oops.

 

[MGibster]

I will openly admit I don't remember the ads. What are the odds at least a couple critics who got it wrong are the ones that phoned it in and didn't watch the full movie? Oops.

We could probably have an entire thread on misleading trailers. Robin Williams' Bicentennial Man looked like a straight up comedy but it really wasn't. It wasn't very good either.