Marvin
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But does that mean their criticism is without merit? Yes it would be unfair to compare Transformers to some Oscar Bait movie, but when two movies in the same genre, the Marvel movies and the Transformers movies get radically different reviews, maybe there is something to the criticism the Transformers get.
Unless there is a giant conspiracy, it seems like several critics decided on their own that these Transformers movie are not very good.
Besides if we don't judge things on personal critical thinking skills, don't we encourage a herd mentality?
Everytime we mention the critics and what that group of people dictate to further a point, we encourage herd mentality. Everytime I hear someone mention baysplosions(cause no other movie has them) I'm seeing herd mentality and so forth. It's too late for that.
These rules of film making that we think we are personally grading upon have been told to us, it's an institution...like when judges grade a gymnastics floor routine, someone made up a rubric and we seemingly judge our art by that rather than how it effects us personally. I don't consider that critical thinking as it pertains to art but rather science. I digress.
There is no 'giant conspiracy, that would be strawman territory. It's a simple matter of a number of people(critics in this case) not liking these movies. That's all well and good. But when you really think about it, there are alot of people that don't like alot of movies. A cult hit like Hensel/Gretel is hated by 300 or so people, yet loved by another group of 300 or so. At any point in time the MOS boards have 1000 people roaming, if 300 of those SHH forum members happened to hate the film what would that actually tell us other than 300 guys on the hype hate the movie. Same with any marvel or fox movie. That is all that is happen with these RT scores. We just happen to care more about what these critics say for some reason. I gave up on them entirely when I kept seeing Faraci's name on the RT pages. He's just an opinion, a fickle one at that, as you or I. They all are.
Lastly, they may not compare TF to oscar bait movies(though you'd be surprised) but they don't always compare it to what it infact..is. Seems few people actually know what it is other than effective on the masses.