Box Office Mojo's movie reviews (?)
02-05-04, 10:05 PM
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Box Office Mojo's movie reviews (?)
Have you ever seen the movie reviews on Box Office Mojo? And if so, do you find them to be a little, well, off? I mean, "LOTR:ROTK" , "Big Fish" and "Master and Commander" all get a B rating, and "Win a Date with Brad Hamilton" gets a B+ (!?) Interesting.
02-05-04, 10:32 PM
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The joy of opinion.
You gotta note that the review for those movies is different than the Tad Hamilton one. That's why I sort of prefer singular person review sites, since you get a feel for their "taste".
You gotta note that the review for those movies is different than the Tad Hamilton one. That's why I sort of prefer singular person review sites, since you get a feel for their "taste".
02-06-04, 10:54 PM
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I haven't read the reviews there, but who are you to say that the reviewer should have enjoyed/rated one movie higher than the other.
Just like the guy in the cubicle next to yours at work, no reviewer is going to match up to how you would rate movies.
Just like the guy in the cubicle next to yours at work, no reviewer is going to match up to how you would rate movies.
02-07-04, 08:28 AM
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Originally posted by clemente
I haven't read the reviews there, but who are you to say that the reviewer should have enjoyed/rated one movie higher than the other.
Just like the guy in the cubicle next to yours at work, no reviewer is going to match up to how you would rate movies.
I haven't read the reviews there, but who are you to say that the reviewer should have enjoyed/rated one movie higher than the other.
Just like the guy in the cubicle next to yours at work, no reviewer is going to match up to how you would rate movies.
Oh do forgive me clemente. I thought this was a discussion group . It was just an observation. That three of the year's highest rated films rated lower than "Hamilton". What in the world was I thinking!?
02-07-04, 08:29 AM
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That Brad Hamilton movie sounds great, but none of the theaters here have heard of it. Did a search on Fandango, but nobody's showing it in the country?
02-08-04, 11:11 AM
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Yeah, I’m no fan either, but for entirely different reasons. The ROTK stuff doesn’t bother me… That’s just opinion at work.
But I made the full court press to be a critic on the site last fall, when they had nothing to show for themselves. And they blew me off. Then, all of a sudden, they got one of their internal guys, Scott Holleran, to start writing reviews. It could be the paranoia talking, but I think I gave them the idea to really pursue reviewing. Who knows…
Holleran lost me when he dropped the F on ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, and I think the site suffers greatly from his critiques.
But I made the full court press to be a critic on the site last fall, when they had nothing to show for themselves. And they blew me off. Then, all of a sudden, they got one of their internal guys, Scott Holleran, to start writing reviews. It could be the paranoia talking, but I think I gave them the idea to really pursue reviewing. Who knows…
Holleran lost me when he dropped the F on ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, and I think the site suffers greatly from his critiques.
