Film Review - John Carter

So far "John Carter" has been a flop.  To the critics that is.  And to the box office.  But both groups have failed me before, as was the case with Disney's last sci-fi blockbuster "Tron Legacy" which has become a favorite movie of mine.  It always irritates me when people decide what is good or bad before it is even released.  Google "Oscar predictions 2012" and I bet you that more than half of the movies on that list haven't premiered yet and will end up in the Oscars.  The same preconceived perceptions goes for Hollywood's blacklist, and John Carter was added to it long before anyone had seen it.  Perhaps the horrendous marketing is at fault for that.

The Purpose of This Blog

What is this blog about?  This blog is about giving personal film reviews.  I haven't yet, but may eventually get some flack for my less-than scholarly reviews of films or television.  And so I think it's important that I take a moment to discuss why I created this blog in the first place.

I read all these reviews from critics and can't connect with any of them.  Sometimes they are very accurate in their reviews, sometimes not so much.  But there is one thing that the critic lacks - humanity.

As I have begun to see, no film is flawless, yet by critics, they are treated as though the should be. But I wonder if the flaws of a film are part of why we can connect with them?  If we as humans, are flawed and imperfect, then even our artwork will be, in some capacity, flawed.

Critics look at movies from a critic's perspective, not from a human perspective, not as a weak, vulnerable, faulty, real person with feelings and emotions.  Films were made for people not critics.  So why do we rely so heavily on their opinions?  Because we have no human voice to listen to.  I'm not saying I expect this blog to become some huge thing that "speaks for the people," but you should know that the reviews on here come from someone who watches and appreciates films from a human perspective.  These are reviews from an ordinary person.