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A couple of months back, I heard that the Netflicks film VERONICA was the scariest film ever according to various critic and twitter ratings. I watched it, and it was a well-made film, scary enough for 13 year old girls, but really nothing truly chilling in it at all. Just a forgettable little film.
Now I watch BIRD BOX, having heard similar things about it, and this one was damned poor. Again, professionally made, but not even passable in terms being good horror fiction, mostly recycling tropes from zombie fiction, but with a silly, indefinable adversary.
So my question here is: does Netflicks put out/pay for fake hype? I know I will not be watching any more Netficks original horrors. Fool me once, shame on you....etc.
No spoilers on the actual movies except one for Cat Box...er...Bird Box. Apparently, not a single one of the morons in the movie have read THE ODYSSEY, because then they would have know to tie up the character that wanted to look so that he could not "jump in the ocean" so to speak. They could have ascertained if the madness was permanent or had a half-life, asked for insights into what he saw, etc. Maybe the guy would have even built up an immunity over time. It actually would have been a hell of a lot more interesting than what happenned.
I know that Netflex has changed its method of the customer rating system. Instead of rating each movie or series using the star method, it has adopted a thumbs up or down method, which I'm not happy with because you can only rate the video good or bad instead of rating them from one star to five. For me anyway, most movies in the last 20 years stink.
OP, just because you didn't like these movies, doesn't mean millions of other people feel the same way. There are many great movies that you may personally not like.
OP, just because you didn't like these movies, doesn't mean millions of other people feel the same way. There are many great movies that you may personally not like.
A simple google search would show you that lots of other people agree. Even checking out a couple of threads in this forum. But hey, it is much more fun to play the scolding school marm.
A simple google search would show you that lots of other people agree. Even checking out a couple of threads in this forum. But hey, it is much more fun to play the scolding school marm.
Did you skip all the people that enjoyed the movie? No scolding included.
Most movie companies/studios manufactures word of mouth for their movie. The pressure reviewers to praise/condemn certain movies in exchange for future access, they mandate theaters to run a movie in all of their rooms for a specific duration to squeeze out any competition, and other schemes. Surprise surprise, Netflix is possibly doing what amounts to the same thing.
I think with Birdbox, it is a mix of mid-level horror which sometimes has a great response even if it isn't always critical successes. I haven't seen it, but there has been a good amount of mid-level horror including movies like Bobaduke and It Follows as well as Blumhouse movies. I don't know however if Birdbox is but it partially turned into a pop culture phenomenon.
I think for critics, sometimes there is puffery and soft reviews for movies that prop up the money it will make while other times critics sink a film like say Justice League... Netflix was not alone with this idea that movie studios and distributors use this logic.
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