@adrardohan: Not the majority then... certainly not the majority now...LOL

@adrardohan: For some... maybe...

@willhouse4: "I guess that's just me."

No... I agree with you.

@Baconstrip78: "I don’t see a reviewer throwing a tantrum."

Really? I see a ton of them in tantrum moments... but it is obviously just an act...

Last time I saw this was in the Acolyte...

My favourite moments are when they reach the "the death of Star Wars", "the death of morality","the wokeness is destroying my childhood"... and on and on...

@s9fx55fe77lam: Agree...We are just here debating, nothing more. No need for hostility or any other negative feeling. That being said, and having your words in consideration "I have no desire to interact with you", I will obviously respected your desire.

I may reply in the future because I reply thoughts and ideas, not direct individuals. But all you need to do is say "I dont want to talk with you" and I will go my way.

Thanks for the respectful cross argumentation. Stay well.

@s9fx55fe77lam: "Calling people morons because they don't adhere to your particular vision"

Sorry... my mistake... I was not trying to say they were morons, I was saying that morons is those youtubers target... Bad English sorry...

"I addressed my comments to Akriel_Boulve, and not to you..."

Fair enough... but... you done that in a public comment so... deal with it...

"You are certainly entitled to your opinion, to select the reviewers you prefer. Others of us will do the same."

Exactly... Nothing to add about this...

"Thank you for keeping your comments civil."

Always... Thank you...

@Akriel_Boulve: "You've got it entirely backwards there champ."

Sorry champ, you are wrong again... A review can never be judge by personal taste, no matter the numbers. A review needs to reflect the personal opinion of a single person or group of people. There will be a technical analysis about many aspects of the matter under evaluation, and it will suffer in some form, and at some level, from personal values and taste. And this will happen if the reviewer is truth to himself and his work... a thing that is changing with our new reality....

You want a critic not to express his real review, you want to see him guess what the general people will like or not... and thats not how a review is made.

Do you want an example... The game TLOU2. The reviews of critics? Great... First reviews (2 or 3 days after release) from public (mostly bad ones) and youtube reviewers (mostly bad one also... in line with the flow of the views)... 3 months later a new kind of reviews from gamers and from new reviewers (in some case the same who change their minds). Nowadays... mostly great reviews...I'm not gonna lie... it was a fun experience... something amazing to see... You can see the greed, the lack of values, the little bits of hate of some people... Its crazy, but in the end is just human nature. And you will not find a single review without that scary factor... the human side of things...

"To put it another way, you're saying..."

I´m saying that you should form your own opinion or find a reviewer that most of the times comes into terms with your line of though... as simple as that.

"So you actually admit that these professional reviewers are no longer fit for purpose then?"

On the contrary, I enjoy to read some of them. What I do is to filter the ones I like or are in line with my personal taste. Obviously accepting the idea that it is impossible to always agree on every matter...

"Ever hear of office politics or social agendas?"

Not in this situation... in an era of numbers and viewers what we see is people losing their honour, pride and other values in order to appease the masses. And I don't accept that... This is just about money... not politics...

"Methinks you are too sensitive around that word "politics"."

I'm... It's hard to find a clever discussion went the words "politics", "agenda", "woke"... pops out... its like talking with little children when they are in a tantrum mode...

@s9fx55fe77lam: "Fortunately, there is a growing number of independent reviewers online that give honest reviews."

I have a feeling they are more political than big bad Hollywood...

Also... if they get morons to follow them blindly... a cherry on the top of the cake.... This is the era about reviewers showing tantrums and getting offended by simple stories... because that brings a very specific kind of followers... very very specific....

@Akriel_Boulve: "Meanwhile movies that are actually loved by the masses that don't pander to some social issue of the day get panned by critics."

Like the Transformers movies?

There is a difference between Oscar movies and "summer" movies. And you can apply this logic to any movie or genre you like.

The idea of "politics" in movies is just meh... Obviously, any movie based on reality will have some kind of sub political ideology. Its part of human values and ideas.

Oppenheimer, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Parasite, Nomadland, Green book, The shape of water, all great movies, many a satire about real life. Politics? I don't see it...

@Akriel_Boulve: Sorry... I'm talking about the review and the reviewer. A technical review is one thing, a global review something utterly different. A bad story can be exposed by its flaws in the narrative, a good story may have no flaws and some people may hate it... its very subjective.

"and is generally agreed upon by the public."

This is wrong... very very wrong. In a review the agreement of "other people" is irrelevant, otherwise your review is by default biased.

People are too sensitive nowadays... if the review is not of your liking make the contra argumentation, say what you love about the movie and the things you don't agree about this review. It's the best way to make a point.

The time to let a reviewer influence my opinion is long lost. I´ll see the movie and them I will made my opinion, free from any kind of influence. I never trusted them enough to not judge for myself, but 2020 showed me that any reviewer has a personal agenda. (not talking about politics)