Kythas wrote:philip964 wrote:USA Today gave it two stars, didn't seem to like it. So it must be pretty good.
You apparently have the same opinion of movie reviewers as I do. My liking of a movie seems to be generally inverse of professional movie reviews.
The Houston Chronicle doesn't do too bad. However, USA Today is death on any sort of Action/Science Fiction type movie. Rotten Tomatoes gives the best predictions of my reaction to a movie, especially if you look at the audience rating.
John Carter got a 50% favorable rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which is still a Rotten Tomato, on their scale, however the audience gave it a 72% favorable rating which makes it a good movie to go see. As an example Act of Valor was a 28% critics 84% audience movie, or Gost Rider was a 15% critics 35% audience movie. So you would go see Act of Valor at the theatres, maybe wait for Gost Rider to be on Netflix.
All of these movies were two out of five stars on USA Today. Which doesn't tell you much other than they don't like action/science fiction movies, and support gun control.