Firstly ignore all of the critic reviews online, if they can give The Last Jedi 86% with a straight face and then give Bright 28% then they have zero credibility as reviewers. I honestly don’t get what the critics wanted from this movie? Then lying outright about it being the worst movie of 2017? Really? Did we forget about the Emoji movie or The Snowman? Or Al Pacino’s movie, The Hangman? All I can say to these critics is, they kind of missed the point. I don’t know whether they were expecting a different type of movie, or if this is because Netflix managed to produce a Hollywood quality movie on half the budget. This really is the future of cinema, streaming right into your home or wherever you are. And I think this scares these people, hence the hate for this movie.
And no GameSpot the world liked it just fine just not the critics. Movie theaters and mainstream media don’t want big budget movies like Bright to succeed on Netflix why you might ask? Because it means reviewers won’t get paid to go watch these movies in the cinema, it means people aren’t paying for overpriced movie tickets and spending massive amounts on Popcorn and a Coke. And the thought a big-budget movie like Bright being part of a subscription-based model terrifies these people. Netflix didn’t pay them to go watch it and give it good reviews. That’s the power of these vulture critics. But the most important factor is that critics are not the target audience we are, and we loved the movie:
The above image is a great example of how critics and the average viewer have finally become completely out of touch with each other when it comes to TV shows and movies. And these days everyone including your mother can consider themselves a critic of something, no real qualifications needed. And in most cases these days internet critics often seem at odds with the pulse of the audience and what the audience loves and enjoys, it feels like critics critique for each other on the studied merits of a film/series they reviewed instead of reviewing it from a fans perspective. I actually went into Bright without any expectations because of all the reviews shitting all over it.
I don’t agree with some movie critics comments that I movie-going audience am more easily satisfied than the professional movie critic. Unlike the critics, I sometimes just look for something to entertain me. It doesn’t have to be a masterpiece or be an earth-shattering cinematic event. I do think they tend to get jaded after seeing so many films as a job. Having said that I think the conversation should be less about the difference between the critics and the audiences review scores for a movie, and more about why the audiences no longer value the critic’s opinion.But then again that is my mistake for taking reviewers of any form of media seriously these days. You can find my review of Bright here.
[Editorial Note:] “A man becomes a critic when he cannot be an artist the same way a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier” – Flaubert –