TIL that Die Hard received mixed reviews upon release. Critics didn't like Bruce Willis' performance, action and violence
TIL that Die Hard received mixed reviews upon release. Critics didn't like Bruce Willis' performance, action and violence
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Critics for movies tend to shit on everything I like. Critics for video games tend to overrate games highly way too much.
I don't know about game critics, but movie critics have (usually) studied film on an academic level, and watched a whole fuck ton of movies for the purpose of breaking them down and analyzing them. They're not watching and/or thinking about movies like most people. Of course they will judge them differently.
Yeah. I basically focusing on nitpicky professional details and missing the "is this movie entertaining/fun" part.
You can differentiate between if a film is "objectively" good and subjectively enjoyable to yourself.
The problem is critics are people who always value the new and interesting, and good acting. Because they watch a lot of movies, day in day out.
Sometimes normal viewers just want something dumb that's exactly what they expect.
For me, it's not Bruce that's great in Die Hard. It's Rickman. Die Hard 3 does better on the protagonist side because of the chemistry between Jackson and Willis, but again it's the classically trained theatre actor doing a lot of the heavy lifting, single-handedly stopping it from turning into an episode of Blue's Clues.