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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Counterpoint: Movie "Critics" are supposed to be the ones who judge movie on how well made it is rather than their personal taste. Roger Ebert disliked a lot of films but didn't deduct the scores because of it.

Funko critics on RT are not qualified to be critics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I always gave Ebert credit for his review philosophy. Like you said, he would review a slasher movie and he said he didn't care for them but he would review it from the angle of slasher movies and if it was a good slasher movie. He seemed to have a strange hangup on nudity even though he wrote the script for "Valley of the Dolls." For instance, he didn't like "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" because Jennifer Jason Leigh had a nude scene.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pedestrian reviewers are fine too so long as you can depend on them to endorse certain types of films.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's contradictory to my post. RT is one of the boards I check for the angle of supposedly professional movie critics, though I'll be the first to admit the standards are pretty low.