Do you ever listen to Movie Critics, like Roger Ebert?

[Howdoulikemenow333]

The two movie critics Roger Ebert and the younger one, At The Movies. Do you ever listen to them? Today Roger liked Garfield, and the younger one hated it. Roger liked The Fast and the Furious, the other guy hated it. I really never listen to movie critics anyway. They really bug me. If I don't like a movie that I saw, I wasted my money and that was my perogative.

[Shine]

I never listen to movie critics.

[Central Perk]

I watch their show each week and sometimes I like to read reviews, but I'll see a movie based on whether or not I want to see it.

[snl 70s show fan]

i never listen to them roger ebert even wrote a book called ii hated hated hated this movie and almost every movie that he hated i liked

[dlemond]

I find positive reviews interesting. I like Ebert's points when he is into a film.

Negative reviews are good in a sense, but rarely effect much in the terms of going to see a movie if you are really interested.

I do like to hear when great actors are in some crappy movie that is apparently done for the cash. Like Michael Douglas in Don't Say a Word or Deniro in 15 Minutes, or Harrison Ford in, well, a lot of stuff.

That is a good head up.

[Jrnygrl]

I used to listen to Siskel and Ebert and base my movie going on their recommendation. Usually they were dead on with their reviews, IMO.

Then after Siskel died I stopped, but I still watch the show.

[evilNpunk]

I hardly ever pay attention to what critics say... most of the time their opinion is way different than mine.

[Brad Russ]

I watch Ebert and Roeper every week, but I don't usually base whether or not I'm going to watch something on their reviews. Ebert gave a thumbs down review to one of my top five favorite films ever, so if I determined what I watched based on critics reviews, I'd be missing out on alot of great movies..

I can't stand Richard Roeper. He's pompous, and thinks that whatever he says is all that matters, and if you like a movie that he doesn't, he'll laugh right in your face. If he did that to me, the way he always does to Roger, I'd smack the punk upside the head!! :boxing:

[LucyCompanyPhan]

I read reviews before I see a movie. I usually just check rottentomatoes or my local paper or entertainment weekly or whatever kind of reviews I read online. I always check a movie's review before I see it, but it doesn't really stop me from seeing a movie I want to see...but if a movie I didn't ever think I'd want to see has a good review, I'd reconsider. I usually read reviews also after I've seen the movie because I like to see if critics notice the same thing I notice in movies. It helps me get my thoughts about movies together. Overall, I don't think it ever really influences what I think though. I'm just interested in what other people say.

[crystals]

I never listen to the reviews of critics. I go more by the genre and the plot of the film to decide if I want to see it or not. Sometimes critics will really hate a movie and make it sound really bad and I'll actually see it and like it and other times I've heard great reviews of a film and seen the film and don't care for the movie. I think it just depends on what kinds of films people are interested in.

[comedyfreak]

I never listen to the critics, the negative reviews make me want to go out and see the movie anyway.

[tdf4077]

I don't ever listen to what the critics say, but I do think that it would be a GREAT job! I mean, sure, you'll have to deal w/some ppl in the industry being upset with you about some of your comments or your reviews, but what other job can you have where you get paid to watch a movie then just talk about whether or liked it or not? How can I get that gig?

[The Flying Dutchmans]

I think its a given that if the critics hate a movie were gonna love it, LOL you see its human nature to do exactly the flip side of what someone else says we should do, and one movie roger ebert brings up every so often was My dinner with andre and how he loved it, I seen that movie and it was 2 hours of these guys sitting in a restraunt talking and it was so boring. man I hate that movie.