Friday, May 06, 2005

Annoying movie reviews

I love watching previews, and I may be one of the few who loves previews in movie theatres. To me, there's great excitement and wish fulfillment when a new movie comes out. I so excited to see it, and then when I checking the news, a move review always comes up and spoils the excitement of me going to see the movie.

Like I was excited to see the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and then I couldn't avoid movie reviews for it. Same with Kingdom of Heaven. When it gets closer to opening day, a foot load of reviews comes out for it, and the title usually gives away how the reviewer feels/rates the film.

I have nothing against the reviews, but I hate that they ruin and take the enjoyment out of me making my own mind about the quality of the movie. I don't want to be told before hand why it sucks, why it doesn't, which are the good parts, the tolerable, and the truly heinous ones because then all I’m going to do during the movies is check whether or not I agree with the reviewer. I'm already biased against the film depending on which reviews I read. I want a blank slate when I go into the films so I can make up my own mind, THANK YOU.

I love going to see movies that I haven't read the reviews for, and then going back to look up the reviews for the movie to see if critics loved or hated it, what ratings they gave it, and why. I believe that's the way it should be.

I can't really avoid the reviews. No I can't. I don't mind they show up as news link on Yahoo or MSNBC or CNN. But I'd rather they not include in the headline their opinions of the movies, but I don't want to be influenced by their reviews. Why not go, click here to see the movie reviews, instead of saying, HOUSE OF WAX SUCKS. And usually there's a clever pun included in the headline that tells you if the movie is a nay or yay.

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