Its true, you can get good reads on where a film stands by the cross examination. Low critic score but high audience usually indicates a poorly executed film that has a lot of emotional investment by a dedicated fan base. Sometimes, that is appealing if I'm one of those fans. Either way, its good to know what type of experience I'm in for.
I find it weird the way your refer to “Critics” with a capital C like they’re some kind of monolithic entity. I’ve very rarely seen a film where every critic agreed. Critics are like any other columnist — you find the ones you like, whose interests and tastes seem aligned with yours. Or not. But they aren’t some weird Borg collective with a single thoughtmind.I normally trust audience scores FAR more than Critic scores.
A prime example is when the Mummy came out (decades ago). Critics razed it, gave it lower scores. Audiences LOVED it.
I enjoyed it tremendously...wondered what was wrong with the Critics.
Similar thoughts have popped up sometimes today, it seems the Critics are very, very, wrong in many instances. It amazes me how they can all agree on some movies where the audience absolutely does not agree with them (Especially when critics say something is terrible, but audiences absolutely love it). It just tells me that Critics tend to have terrible tastes compared to the general public...
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I believe that to be true.
However, here in the US, there are times when it appears to be true [that there is a hivemind] whenever certain actors and/or certain opinions on social/political issues are involved.
Even when it's an issue upon which I agree with the critics, it's difficult to not see bias when literally every critic review rates something "100%," yet the audience score sits at "26%."
Hannah Gadsby: Nanette
Australian comic Hannah Gadsby reshapes standard stand-up by pairing punchlines with personal revelations on gender, sexuality and childhood turmoil.
I found a different way of handling it. If critics seem to be universally panning a movie, I put it on my "must watch" list. I'm rarely disappointed.
How odd. Well, if it works for you.
I normally trust audience scores FAR more than Critic scores.
A prime example is when the Mummy came out (decades ago). Critics razed it, gave it lower scores. Audiences LOVED it.
I enjoyed it tremendously...wondered what was wrong with the Critics.
Similar thoughts have popped up sometimes today, it seems the Critics are very, very, wrong in many instances. It amazes me how they can all agree on some movies where the audience absolutely does not agree with them (Especially when critics say something is terrible, but audiences absolutely love it). It just tells me that Critics tend to have terrible tastes compared to the general public...
Even the Mummy didn't have EVERY critic agree, but the overall critic's reviews put it lower on their scale at around a C rating, while audience reviews at the time (20 years ago) put it in the 90 percentile.
I see this quite often. Critics pan a movie, the audience praises it. Then it becomes a piece of highly praised movie history and they change their mind about it.
Michael Hurst looks a little odd in mascara.
