We all watch movies for our own reasons, and we all like and dislike them for our own reasons. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. If we laughed, cried, watched the movie with someone we love, and had a special connection with the screen and the people around us, that’s all that matters.
In other words, moviegoing is a personal thing, and so is film criticism. That’s the best reason to read a review. Not to learn the “right” or “wrong” opinion about something, but to see a movie from a completely different person’s perspective. Just because someone thinks a movie about an Olympic gymnast turned U.S. government spy who goes to a fictional Eastern European country to compete in a bizarre competition to win the right to launch a spy satellite is an unmitigated masterpiece doesn’t mean others will. But if they write with enough passion, they might convince us to rethink things a little. (This is just an entirely hypothetical example I made up on the spur of the moment.)
That’s why I love reviews like the 30 that follow. They’re five-star praise in Mail box — most of them completely ironic, some genuinely disturbing, all of them totally inspired — to some of the most infamous and notorious cinematic disasters of all time. These are the movies that won Razzie Awards, bombed at the box office, and appeared on lists of the worst movies ever made. But you wouldn’t know it from these reviews.
I have omitted the names of these writers to dissuade you from finding these people and pestering them about their tastes. (If you want to track them down and thank them for the amazing review of The Love Guru(which I have no problem with.) It’s about celebrating the love of movies in whatever form that takes. There might even be a my five star reviews there. See if you can find…
Five stars praise horrible movies on Letterboxd
You (and most people) may hate these movies, but not these Letterboxd fans who gave these movies five stars.
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