If movie critics were members here, they would be on my Ignore list. I have no interest in the views of people who trash sci-fi movies simply because they're sci-fi movies. Science fiction is a perfectly legitimate branch of fiction which has produced many truly wonderful stories over the past century, but the average critic, while watching a movie based on one of those stories, is likely to say, "Is that a spacecraft?? This movie blows!" or something equally ignorant. They're just as harsh with horror movies and animated features, too, unless of course the animation was done in France. Now to be fair, sometimes the critics do give a four-star rating to a sci-fi movie that deserves it, the best example by far of which is 2001: A Space Odyssey, and there are a lot of bad sci-fi films out there that deserve to be trashed, but oftentimes the critics don't trash it because it's bad, no; they trash it because they don't understand it (perhaps because there were no subtitles). I stopped paying attention to the critics a long time ago; I have little use for the opinions of elitists.
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