Bad reviews of classic films...

[Ray Jackson]

Last night I watched Goodfellas for something like the one billionth time and today I was curious to know what its Rotten Tomato score was.

I mean who could possibly be contrarian enough to give a classic film like Goodfellas a rotten rating?

For the most part, there's always someone.

And for Goodfellas, along with two other anonymous nincompoops, it was this guy...Jospeh Funking McBride. Any relation to Danny? No way. No way Danny McBride could share the same blood as this dork.

http://variety.com/1990/film/reviews...as-1200428575/

[Ray Jackson]

There's always one.

...even for Sunset Boulevard.

http://www.7mpictures.com/inside/rev...dvd_review.htm

[Ray Jackson]

The day I realized that Time Magazine was a communist front.

http://content.time.com/time/magazin...961416,00.html

[AKORIS]

the world would be a better place without asinine reviews and creepy avatars.

We can't really do anything about the past reviews unless someone is savvy enough to erase them from all databases...

but, Ray, you can do something about that avatar... do it for the forum! Do it for the world! Do it so little kids don't have nightmares....

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

the world would be a better place without asinine reviews and creepy avatars.

We can't really do anything about the past reviews unless someone is savvy enough to erase them from all databases...

but, Ray, you can do something about that avatar... do it for the forum! Do it for the world! Do it so little kids don't have nightmares....

You leave Willem Dafoe outta this.

[acroyear2]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

You leave Willem Dafoe outta this.

Easy for you to say. You have La Roux for your avatar. I love her!

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

the world would be a better place without asinine reviews and creepy avatars.

We can't really do anything about the past reviews unless someone is savvy enough to erase them from all databases...

but, Ray, you can do something about that avatar... do it for the forum! Do it for the world! Do it so little kids don't have nightmares....

That will never happen my friend.

...that avatar is a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom.

[Rayjaymay]

Here is a (now) famous clip of Siskel & Ebert taking down a fellow critic who came out against the Star Wars films...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky9-eIlHzAE

[headphones]

A review is just an opinion. Doesn't make them right or wrong.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by headphones

A review is just an opinion. Doesn't make them right or wrong.

It makes them bad at their job in certain cases.

There are plenty of classic films that I don't personally like very much, if at all.

But very few of them that I would give negative reviews to if I was attempting to write an objective critical analysis. Because despite a review being one critic's opinion, there's still room for objectivity in it.

Just because I didn't like a movie or wasn't entertained by it, doesn't mean I think it's a bad movie or that it didn't accomplish what it set out to do. Roger Ebert has written about this at length.

The idea that any film critic would look at a film like Goodfellas or Citizen Kane and conclude that it's a bad movie, is not a legitimate analysis in my view.

...it's elephant dung.

[Buscemi]

Insulting age groups and now stating your opinion as superior to everyone else's. Gee, I wonder what's next, Ray?

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by Buscemi

Insulting age groups and now stating your opinion as superior to everyone else's. Gee, I wonder what's next, Ray?

When/how did I insult age groups?


now stating your opinion as superior to everyone else's

...I didn't do that.


Gee, I wonder what's next, Ray?

Probably start my own blog, followed shortly by world blogging domination.

...lots of money and hot chicks.

[Buscemi]

You were using assumptions that all young people watch movies on their iPhones on that one thread about the importance of building personal libraries and saying it in a derisive manner, of which I called you out as never having met said group.

And you've been using this thread to act like your opinion is more important than film critics all because a couple of critics didn't like Goodfellas.

[Nuck Horris]

Originally Posted by Buscemi

Insulting age groups and now stating your opinion as superior to everyone else's. Gee, I wonder what's next, Ray?

Next, you cry us a river and I build a birch bark canoe.

[qb2333]

Anyone who doesn't like either Godfather or Goodfellas is wrong. That is all

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by headphones

A review is just an opinion. Doesn't make them right or wrong.

unless, of course, I disagree with it!

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

unless, of course, I disagree with it!

Exactly!

[stvn1974]

Siskel and Ebert were both wrong about David Lynch's Blue Velvet.

[Rzzzz]

To me, Goodfellas is like The Godfather (both of them), Ben Hur (the original of course) and It's a Mad,Mad, Mad,Mad World...they are in that small group of the perfect movie. However, there are 2 other movies often put in that group that I can't get into no matter how hard I try, Citizen Kane (yet I LOVE a Touch of Evil) and Gone With the Wind.

[Doctor Jack]

Originally Posted by Rzzzz

To me, Goodfellas is like The Godfather (both of them), Ben Hur (the original of course)and It's a Mad,Mad, Mad,Mad World...they are in that small group of the perfect movie. However, there are 2 other movies often put in that group that I can't get into no matter how hard I try, Citizen Kane (yet I LOVE a Touch of Evil) and Gone With the Wind.

The original 1925 film really is a masterpiece.