Movies you haven't seen:

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"this might be good, idk... nah, probably not."

I mean, exactly? Only thing that really matters is whether you enjoyed it or not. To hell with other people's opinions

But people don’t know anything and you should form an opinion of your own. Even if it’s a garbage opinion everyone else hates.

If this is a place to throw hot takes: Battlefield Earth is better than Mad Max 1979, if only just marginally.

Just came home from watching it. I've read it quite a few times, both out loud to students and by myself, so I didn't go in completely blind so to speak.

Still, it managed to confuse me a few times, especially a few conversations, and at some points, a little who's who. (Might just have been me, though. See below).

Still, overall, it was a pleasure to watch. Damon gives one of his best performances. It's perhaps not the best he's ever done, but he's good enough to carry a large part of the movie by himself. There are other standouts as well, a few from his crew, and Pattinson is his usual brooding self, which fits right in here. Casting Tom Holland as Telemachus perhaps wasn't completely fair to his capabilities, but he did well enough with his limited time and lines.

It's quite hard to write about further details without spoiling stuff, but one thing I can say is that the scenery is very well done. If you go in expecting Greek summer sunshine, you're in for another thing altogether. The backdrops were gorgeous. The CGI is also quite well done, imo.

Anyway, to be completely honest here, I have issues with my spine and right leg (the ischias nerve) so I'm pretty heavily medicated and that might have put a positive tint on the whole thing, I don't know.

(tl;dr) Still, in my opinion, it's very much worth watching, and if you can afford it, it's worth watching it in a movie theatre because of the effects and sound.

Edits: I had to repair my broken and not very sober English after the fact.

See also: motivated reasoning

I just don’t check reviews. I’m genuinely the fourth one, but all the time.

If there's a movie I don't like,
and I see the rating site consensus showing "low critic score + high audience score",
THAT is more likely to convince me than anything else to re-evaluate my opinion.

And if there's a movie I DO like,
But it gets an AWFUL audience rating despite high praise from the professional critics,
That will ACTUALLY make me second guess and wonder if I'm wrong about how good I thought it was.

I fucking hate the professional critic grift ._.

You should watch the trailer here first

Nope, I'm still pissed off at Ridley Scott's Napoleon for changing things historically. It was a fun movie and really entertaining but it pissed me off so I couldn't fully enjoy it.

I'm assuming this movie will be the same, so I'll pass until I learn to let things go

me to all of them: i had fun at the movies :D