>>113063953>I don't trust critics>I trust /co/ strangers insteadBoth usually have garbage opinions, though. Why trust either?
I decide whether a movie looks good enough to see based on the promotional materials released: the trailer, the promo images, maybe if I catch an interview with the filmmakers and actors involved, etc. If it looks good, I see it. If it doesn't, I don't.
If it looks bad and I say "that looks like crap," I'll usually get shit from people saying "yOu'Re jUdGinG A MovIE YoU HAvEN't evEN SeEN yeT!" as if allowing me to make judgements on shit I haven't seen isn't the entire reason that these large studios put so much money into marketing in the first place. As if I'm required, in a world full of so much media that I couldn't consume it all if I wanted to, to give every last damn movie "a chance." Fuck that, I'll shit on a movie if I can tell from the trailer that it's going to be shit. Sure, it's a fallible reasoning process, and sometimes a movie looks good and turns out to be shit, and sometimes a movie looks bad but is good, but literally every reasoning process but (sound) deduction is fallible and the risk of error is just part of life when weighing evidence.
If I rust anyone's opinion, it will be somebody who has been shown through experience to have taste similar to mine or to understand me enough to know what I might like. It won't be some random critic or some dumb /co/ poster who's probably a company warrior or culture warrior.
