Werthead |
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ALIEN: RESURRECTION did do one thing right: the rewrites and mishandled direction annoyed Whedon so much that he decided to revisit the "misfit space pirates in space" concept five years later, resulting in the creation of FIREFLY. So that was one positive outcome :)
ALIEN 3 is a pretty good movie. It's just not a very good ALIENS movie, and was a step backwards when the franchise should have been looking for another way forwards. The "Aliens loose on Earth" concept seems solid, but I've never seen a real way for that story to go that doesn't descend into lots of shoot-outs and then nuking the planet.
Also, Ridley Scott was right when he said that the alien was no longer scary. It's too familiar a force now, we know how dangerous it is and how to kill it. That limits its potential for true horror, although you can still make a good war/suspense film with it.
Freehold DM |
ALIEN: RESURRECTION did do one thing right: the rewrites and mishandled direction annoyed Whedon so much that he decided to revisit the "misfit space pirates in space" concept five years later, resulting in the creation of FIREFLY. So that was one positive outcome :)
ALIEN 3 is a pretty good movie. It's just not a very good ALIENS movie, and was a step backwards when the franchise should have been looking for another way forwards. The "Aliens loose on Earth" concept seems solid, but I've never seen a real way for that story to go that doesn't descend into lots of shoot-outs and then nuking the planet.Also, Ridley Scott was right when he said that the alien was no longer scary. It's too familiar a force now, we know how dangerous it is and how to kill it. That limits its potential for true horror, although you can still make a good war/suspense film with it.
...hmm...
Lord Snow |
Rotten tomatoes has long since became useless.
How would an estimated egregation of scores be useless? It's a pretty good reflection of the consensus on any given movie.
Of course, everyone will find themselves at odds with the unwashed masses every now and then (myself, I can't figure out how those Thor movies keep getting acceptable scores there), but that hardly makes the site useless.
Benchak the Nightstalker Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 8 |
Lord Snow |
I think 30% is too harsh, but honestly many of the complaints the reviewers have are fair.
A lot of Chappie was great, but it did have some problems, and it sort of fell apart at the end.
I would rate it better than Elysium, but not as good as District 9
The way that site works is that it collects the opinions of many film critics from blogs and such all around the internet. Each one gives it a "fresh" or "rotten" grade (meaning "it was good" or "it wasn't good"). The percentages you see don't reflect how good the movie is - they reflect how many of the reviewers recommended it.
So 70% of the critics said the movie was bad. This is not a perfect measuring scale, but it's far from useless.
Benchak the Nightstalker Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 8 |
Benchak the Nightstalker wrote:I think 30% is too harsh, but honestly many of the complaints the reviewers have are fair.
A lot of Chappie was great, but it did have some problems, and it sort of fell apart at the end.
I would rate it better than Elysium, but not as good as District 9
The way that site works is that it collects the opinions of many film critics from blogs and such all around the internet. Each one gives it a "fresh" or "rotten" grade (meaning "it was good" or "it wasn't good"). The percentages you see don't reflect how good the movie is - they reflect how many of the reviewers recommended it.
So 70% of the critics said the movie was bad. This is not a perfect measuring scale, but it's far from useless.
I understand how it works, and I wasn't arguing that it was useless.
I saw the movie, and I was sharing my opinion :)
Orthos |
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Hama wrote:Rotten tomatoes has long since became useless.How would an estimated egregation of scores be useless? It's a pretty good reflection of the consensus on any given movie.
Of course, everyone will find themselves at odds with the unwashed masses every now and then (myself, I can't figure out how those Thor movies keep getting acceptable scores there), but that hardly makes the site useless.
I generally find my opinions clash often enough with general consensus that I have long since stopped using any sort of aggregate judgement and rely completely on word-of-mouth from people who I know share my opinions on such things.