lilmac Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Think about movies critics raved about but where there is consensus among regular movie-goers that it sucked. Conversely Think about movies which critics hated but there is consensus among regular movie-goers that it was actually quite good! I got this thread idea after looking at RT scores and trying to find wide disconnects between Top Critics and all critics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Hunt Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Gravity comes to mind 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 (edited) Gravity comes to mind You have to read things before posting Think about movies critics raved about but where there is consensus among regular movie-goers that it sucked the consensus among movie-goers is that Gravity is absolutely amazing. Edited February 13, 2015 by Goffe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatree Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 So this is just about the consensus among regular people? Not our own opinions on whether critics were right/wrong? The latter seems much more interesting... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 You have to read things before posting the consensus among movie-goers is that Gravity is absolutely amazing. I know a lot of people who thought Gravity was boring and dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAJK Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 If you ask people at my school, Ethan was 100% correct with his statement. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 You see what you want to see. The critics raved about it. GA raved about it (as evidenced by the amazing BO legs). Period. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I think this thread is pointless. There's no such thing as a film loved by critics and disliked by regular movie-goers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Jedi Master 007 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I think this thread is pointless. There's no such thing as a film loved by critics and disliked by regular movie-goers. Actually, Metacritic disagrees. http://www.metacritic.com/feature/movie-critics-vs-users However, with that being said, I do think this thread is pointless. No offense to lilmac, but we've had a lot of threads about what critics got wrong. I'm sure they could've just been bumped. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrestrial Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Blade Runner was hated by a lot of critics then. Some said it was early for its time (advanced). Lots of audience loved different or all version of that movie - after a while it developed cult-status Did you happen to mean examples like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChD Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Cloud Atlas? Drive? Maybe a bit of Interstellar to fuel the fire? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Blade Runner was hated by a lot of critics then. Some said it was early for its time (advanced). Lots of audience loved different or all version of that movie - after a while it developed cult-status Did you happen to mean examples like that? Blader Runner was hated by critics back in 1982, yes, but it was also hated by casual moviegoers back then (it bombed at box office). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Cloud Atlas? Drive? Maybe a bit of Interstellar to fuel the fire? Cloud Atlas (6.6 RT vs 7.5 IMDB) and DRIVE (8.3 RT vs 7.8 IMDB) have pretty close ratings among critics and regular moviegoers A case could be made about Interstellar though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatree Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 What case could be made for Interstellar? It polarised both critics and audiences, so I don't see how it's different. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Actually, Metacritic disagrees. http://www.metacritic.com/feature/movie-critics-vs-users Metacritics is too small of a sample, I mean it has only 17 critics and 49 users ratings for 35 Shots of Rum, RT has 59 critics and IMDB has 2.800 votes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrestrial Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Blader Runner was hated by critics back in 1982, yes, but it was also hated by casual moviegoers back then (it bombed at box office). Depends probably on the country. In my circle of friends a lot of people watched it then. It was on ~ #20 here, in 2014 the same position was The Lego Movie here. Not great, but no bomb neither. But I think I understand what you mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TServo2049 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 (edited) Blade Runner wasn't really HATED, but its theatrical run was pretty much a wash. I do think it's more fun to talk about movies that neither critics nor general audiences liked during original release, but which gained acceptance later. Blade Runner is a good example. Another big one that immediately sprang to mind, also from the summer of '82: John Carpenter's The Thing. Critics hated it, audiences avoided it, and the sci-fi fandom rejected it - at the time, the overwhelming consensus in the SF community was that it was a gratuitous gore-fest and that it paled in comparison to the 1951 film (go back and read the reviews in stuff like Starlog and Cinefantastique if you can find them). But then it went on to build up a following that grew and grew, and now it's a major cult classic. Edited February 14, 2015 by TServo2049 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 The Fountain. bunch of dummies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 What case could be made for Interstellar? It polarised both critics and audiences, so I don't see how it's different. to an extent Interstellar was generally liked by both critics and the GA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I think this thread is pointless. There's no such thing as a film loved by critics and disliked by regular movie-goers. Lol, just a few I could think of immediately. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
