Open Season

[matt]

Originally Posted by Sean

I'm fine with people having their subjective opinions, I just don't appreciate the callous meanness in many reviews. A lot of reviewers obviously have very little class, and seem oblivious to the fact that all the people working on these films put everything they have into them. I'd love to see them try to create something out of thin air, get it approved through major studio beurocracy, and then put it up in front of the whole world to judge....but my guess is that they wouldn't have the balls to.

i think we've had these sort of discussions on the board before, peoples enjoyment of art, be it movies, music, paintings etc is by its very nature subjective. one man's meat is often another man's poison as the saying goes and whilst a reviewer has to try and be as objective as possible, it's inevitable that their final opinion on whether they thought it was a good movie or not will be subjective.

plus i strongly disagree with what you seem to be implying that just because a group of people have sweated blood to produce their product then the reviewers should be a bit more sympathetic in their reviews.

i mean, i could stay up for the next 48 hours straight labouring over a painting, foregoing both sustenance and sleep and it would still be a pile of shit at the end of it...