Do you listen to film critics?

Film critics probably have the easiest job in the world: Watching movies and talking about whether or not they're worth seeing. My question to you is, do you listen to/agree with film critics? If so, how often? To me they aren't always accurate, in fact they barely ever are, since they usually praise boring movies and bash on comedies (my favorite genre).

No, I listen to other people (friends, coworkers, etc.) about the movie if they've seen it and take their credit for it. The reason I think this is because movie critics watch movies and if they don't turn out the way they want, they'll give them a lower rating. Meaning...they don't accept the movie what it's for. I've seen this happen quite a few times and they're really *****y about it.enemy-within11

I agree. I don't see how Transformers only got a 58% on Rotten Tomatoes...

Generally not though if consensus opinion is skewed too much I'll consider that.

No I don't. I trust my friends taste is movies since I trust their opinion more. Its not like they had money thrown at them to say something good about a film.HillyBilly

Same... my friends are right about the movie more often than the critics!

To anyone who thinks film criticism is by nature "worthless," while a lot of individual critics suck, Roger Ebert makes a good case for the thing itself here:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/09/critic_is_a_fourletter_word.html

One critic, no, because half of them are too full of themselves for there opinion to be of any value.

But if a bunch of them say a movie is a trainwreck, that's probably a good avoidence sign.

I have found one critic, who shares a similar taste to me, as a result, I will read his reviews and take them into account. However I will not avoid seeing a film that looked interesting just because he said it was bad.

That reviewer is Mark Kermode if anyone was wondering.

I never listen to any critic, let alone a film critic.

But I like this film critic,

Much like game reviews I look for critics who can tell me enough about the movie to get a good feel for if I'm going to like the film or not.duxup

yes

who am i to judge

I dont listen to game or movie critics. Theyre different people with different opinions. If I want to know whether a movie is good or not; then Ill go watch it myself.

Edit- Im pretty sure they gave bad reviews to Twilight, But I loved that movie. Went to see it twice.

Considering how freakin expensive movies are nowadays, I do listen to them. But in any case, the golden rule is

Friends>Critics I don't give a damn about