Do you give a damn what the critics say? - Page 3

Originally posted by: smarie pants

also...its wrong to get mixed up between "a trade analyst" and a "critic"...a trade analyst reviews the fate of the film at the box office, and a critic reviews the film as one person's perspective...so when reviews say "this film will do well in X,Y,Z circuits or this film is not for the masses" its not really a review, its a trade report...

Originally posted by: smarie pants

yes but a film becums a hit or flop when majority of the ppl share the same or similar opinions abt the film...not everyone will love or hate a film...there are ppl who hated a critically acclaimed BLACK......and there are ppl who loved the universally trashed tashan...but since the majority thought black was good and tashan was bad..they ended up with their respective fates at the box office...since critics belong to a segment of audience albeit small, their reviews can often be an accurate judgement of how the general audience would respond to a muvie...of course there are cases when they trash a heyy babyy and it goes on to be a blockbuster..but as masand put it on twitter:

The greatest service a critic can be of, is to encourage u to develop an appetite for great films. Ones that are more than just time-pass!

We as an audience are easily satisfied with time-pass muvies or "ok type" muvies...we dunt require each film to be a masterpiece..as long as its mildly entertaining.....hence they end up doing well...but as critics, its their job not to encourage mediocre work, so obviously..them trashing such films is justified.

Originally posted by: Cutiepie Rani

i guess...but in a way...the critics are responsible for pointing the audience in the right direction....we wouldnt even know of a phas gaya obama, or a Love sex dhoka or an A wednesday if it were not for good reviews from critics.....of course if someones really keen to watch a muvie...then they will watch it irrespective of the reviews...but the general audience wants to spend their precious money and time on something decent and hence, go by the reviews of critics.....they may or may not go to a muvie trashed by the critics...but they will definately go to a movie which is unanimously praised by the critics...bad reviews might not effect the muvie much...but...good reviews are a huge crowd puller.

Edited by smarie pants - 14 years ago

Originally posted by: smarie pants

Yes its true that critics make us aware of films that we wouldn't have heard of otherwise like the movies you mentioned, BUT again an individual can make their own judgment on the films. For me I don't think I'd want to see those movies you mentioned cause they aren't very appealing to me and neither do they have a star cast I'm interested in. I mean again I guess its up to the individual on whether they want to go by what the critics say or judge it on their own basis. That's not for me or you to say. Everyone is different in that regard.

Originally posted by: eroticlover

then what is Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama considered? A mix of both? 😲