I agree with your comments about "like." People simply find different
things entertaining. I didn't find myself critiquing historical
inaccuracies in Pearl Harbor. I found myself bored and irritated with
the actors and the plot. On the one hand, the historical account wasn't
interesting, and on the other hand the love story was not compelling, to
say the least. But that was a personal reaction that others such as you
did not share, and I respect that difference. The same is true of movie
reviewers. You quickly learn whom you do or don't consult for advice
about which movies to see, depending upon taste and the ability to
explain clearly what the reviewer did and did not like.
Kath Agar
John Bleasdale wrote:
>
> In fact I can watch the movie and say yes nonsense,
> yes that didn't happen, yes that's unrealistic and
> still come out and say to my partner, 'it wasn't that
> bad, eh?' I think audiences generally are a bit like
> me in this respect. They think as well as enjoying. I
> think we should be careful when registering our
> dissapproval of a film not to simplify or underrate
> the reactions of our fellow cinema goers. Isn't it one
> of those contradictions that the harder hollywood
> pushes it's values the less credible hollywood
> becomes? It is precisely the most overt ideological
> moments in the film which become considered the most
> corny.
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