Are film critics losing sync with audiences?

Re:Are film critics losing sync with audiences? by bb88 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:37PM (#31006659)

I think another acceptable explanation is that movies are marketed not to everyone but to certain people.

So say the latest horror flick that comes around is marketed to teens and 20-somethings. The over-30 crowd gets turned off by violence and gore. But that particular demographic loves it, and the more gore the more they like it.

There's a certain group of people that loved Human Centipede, e.g. But it got terrible reviews. Roger Ebert refused to award it stars, but gave it a few positive notes regardless.

And in it he even said:

    I have long attempted to take a generic approach. In
    other words, is a film true to its genre and does it 
    deliver what its audiences presumably expect? “The Human 
    Centipede” scores high on this scale. It is depraved and 
    disgusting enough to satisfy the most demanding midnight 
    movie fan. And it's not simply an exploitation film.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-human-centipede-2010

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Re:Are film critics losing sync with audiences? by mrob on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @03:19PM (#31007102)

On the other hand, Ebert followed the critical consensus and gave Freddy Got Fingered (my personal pick for funniest movie of all time) a zero star rating. This is a gross-out comedy that succeeds spectacularly at what it set out to do, but very few critics were willing to judge it by the standards of the genre. The audience scores are very polarized (currently 56% positive on RT), but critic's reviews are only at 11%.

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Re:Are film critics losing sync with audiences? by bb88 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @06:31PM (#31009035)

How does that challenge the argument that movies are marketed to certain groups of people? Gross out movies don't typically get marketed to soccer moms.

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