Critically Overrated / Critically Underrated

**KillerWolf** · 04-17-2006, 07:13 AM

you just cant always trust the critics. sometimes you have to go and see something for yourself, and sometimes you just have to go with your instincts and not go see something.

the purpose for this thread is to expose some critical mis-steps and see how many people feel the same way. here are a couple that have been pissing me off for quite some time:

Critically Overrated: Batman.
personally, i didnt think this movie was all that great back in 1989 when it came out, and in my opinion, no fuckin way this movie still holds up. the whole movie is just fuckin goofy. i tried watching it on HBO yesterday - its just fuckin unwatchable. yet, to this day, critics still talk about that movie like it was the shit, and it still holds up. maybe it's because the next three sequels were so awful that it made the movie seem better than it actually was.

factoid: on the cover (movie case) of "The Crow" it reads: "...the best movie of it's kind since the original Batman."

The Crow is so much better than "Batman" on every level that a statement like that which is supposed to be a credit is lunacy.

Critically Underrated: The Punisher.
what the fuck are these critics thinking? just what in the fuck are they looking for in a movie based on a comic book. IMO, out of all of the (recent surge) of comic book-based movies, The Punisher is the best movie. it has a very clean style to it and very well done action sequences; and the casting and acting are well above par. and yet, this movie has been lambasted by critics and wanna-be critics. one critic wrote, "The Punisher is a simple revenge movie that pretends to be something more."

does it?

i just dont see where theyre coming from. i'm not saying that everybody should like this movie, but i really dont see why so many people would claim to hate it - especially when there are movies like "UltraViolet" being made which should be hated.

04-17-2006, 07:13 AM	#1
KillerWolf \m/(-.-)\m/ Posts: 1,456	Critically Overrated / Critically Underrated you just cant always trust the critics. sometimes you have to go and see something for yourself, and sometimes you just have to go with your instincts and not go see something. the purpose for this thread is to expose some critical mis-steps and see how many people feel the same way. here are a couple that have been pissing me off for quite some time: Critically Overrated: Batman. personally, i didnt think this movie was all that great back in 1989 when it came out, and in my opinion, no fuckin way this movie still holds up. the whole movie is just fuckin goofy. i tried watching it on HBO yesterday - its just fuckin unwatchable. yet, to this day, critics still talk about that movie like it was the shit, and it still holds up. maybe it's because the next three sequels were so awful that it made the movie seem better than it actually was. factoid: on the cover (movie case) of "The Crow" it reads: "...the best movie of it's kind since the original Batman." The Crow is so much better than "Batman" on every level that a statement like that which is supposed to be a credit is lunacy. Critically Underrated: The Punisher. what the fuck are these critics thinking? just what in the fuck are they looking for in a movie based on a comic book. IMO, out of all of the (recent surge) of comic book-based movies, The Punisher is the best movie. it has a very clean style to it and very well done action sequences; and the casting and acting are well above par. and yet, this movie has been lambasted by critics and wanna-be critics. one critic wrote, "The Punisher is a simple revenge movie that pretends to be something more." does it? i just dont see where theyre coming from. i'm not saying that everybody should like this movie, but i really dont see why so many people would claim to hate it - especially when there are movies like "UltraViolet" being made which should be hated.