[AerostarMonk]

I don't think this is exactly true. Many sci-fi, comedy, horror, and even comic book films get stellar reviews from critics. Batman Begins, Knocked Up, X2, Alien, Aliens, Psycho, Scream, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Men in Black, Planes, Trains and Automobiles. That's just the short list. Plus, if you only read blurbs you'll never get a true feel for what many critics are saying. A movie may be very entertaining to them but gets a two star rating because it may not have followed through with the premise, and that's just one example.

Now, I'm not saying that you shouuld read every review or even care about what critics are saying. I'm simply saying that critics aren't out to destroy genre films with their pens and keyboards. Besides, there's many times that they say what they say because they're expected to say it. That's actually something that many critics have admitted to.

Still most of them have nothing on Ebert, and especially not on Siskel. Now there was a team that could not be beat.