Rotten tomatos had Interstellar listed as 70% fresh, the week it come out.
Thr "critics" called the characters half baked.
I was so stoked for that movie i ignored it. And im so glad I did.
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But that is like your opinion man, I think the whole "love" thing is hot garbage. Nice pictures, garbage movie.
The typical experience when you like horror movies... When horror movies get even slightly a better rating, they are often called "Mystery Thriller" or something else, just to avoid the Horror tag. Because somehow it's the law with movie critics that horror must have low rating.
That's because most horror movies and series are really bad, imo. Cheap jumpscares, and hollow stories among the reasons. There are – sadly only few – exceptions though.
Assuming every horror movie will be bad because it's horror sounds like a great way to never find a good horror movie.
I still watch a lot of horror movies and series (especially during Spooktober) in pursuit of those few exceptions. It's sufficient for me to have a more or less dark atmosphere and a macabre story. But I don't engulf myself in illusions: most of them are just really really bad in my opinion. It's like deliberately watching trash, which can be fun if you approach it with that mindset.
Watching a lot of movies doesn't help if you go in assuming it'll be terrible.
It's rather having very low expectations.
Maybe the movie you liked has a trans character or female hero and got review bombed
Well when the character makes sense or it really doesn't matter, it works. But when it's shoehorned in and there is that one scene where they tell their backstory or explain their identity and it's out of the blue and takes you out of the story at hand it's bad and really ruins the movie.
Shoehorning is a lie. queer people exist IRL wherever they want to and movies need to reflect that
Yes, but there is a difference between a protagonist that happens to be queer and a protagonist whose whole persona is that they are queer.
It gets worse when them being queer is the only justification for why they are good instead of the movie showing us they are a good person (or strong, or charismatic, or whatever).
The same can apply to female protagonists as well.
Some people in real life make their sexuality their entire persona.
Those people exist.
Why shouldn't they be allowed to be a protagonist?
The other person said it better than I ever could.
But also: they can be a protagonist. It's just that these movies are usually pretty shit.
Do you have any examples for comparison?
There is one in every season of Star Trek Discovery. But also the Quantum Leap reboot the nerdy tech person, they stop everything in their quest to rescue Ben to give the traumatic backstory theirs. It was very loosely based on the episode and felt really not with the flow of the story. I'll have to look up the episode and timestamp.
For movies there was one I watched recently but I can't remember the name.
I know what you mean that some aspects in Star Trek Discovery felt a bit forced, but on the other hand a 100% cishet crew would have been even more forced, especially with non-human crew members or human-like ones from different solar systems.
Or you watch something that you thought was just awful and you find out that people on the internet loved it…
This was me trying to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey
Either I didn't get it, or I watched it too late to appreciate the ground-breaking effects. Maybe I'll give it another try someday.
2001 is one of those movies that's really important historically, but doesn't really hold up to modern standards.
Prior to 2001, there wasn't really a market for non-schlocky SciFi movies, the whole genre was just cheap horror stories about aliens and monsters.
That movie opened the door to let us have more thoughtful genre flicks with much higher budgets.
2001 still holds up because it's still the most realistic space travel movie ever made. Very few movies come close, 2010 comes close by default, Ad Astra had moments, but it's a very short list.
Being realistic doesn't automatically make something a good movie to watch. Much of reality is quite slow and boring.