Reviews I Wish I Had Not Read....
Abandon hope all ye who enter here!....Now, listen up critics - okay, so no-one is going to win an Oscar, but please..... This is my own local paper, for Pete's sake! http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2009/02/06/review-the-secret-of-moonacre-61634-22866192/ Scroll down, if you have the stomach...... http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv-entertainment/film/2009/02/05/bolt-and-the-secret-of-moonacre-115875-21100041/ Cover your eyes, Ioan! http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/films/the-secret-of-moonacre-film-review-25864.html

Ah, I've been wondering for a while if critics see the same movies that I see. Sometimes I think that reviews should be written by regular movie goers or people randomly picked from audiences coming out of theatres.

This reviewer needs to make up his mind whether he likes the film or not, but I take exception to this comment.... while Gruffudd dispatches his lines as if they're straight from the quill of Shakespeare. His over-earnest proclamation of "Damn my foolish pride!" is worthy of a Razzie nomination. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a145666/the-secret-of-moonacre.html

Well, critics do have their images to keep up. :roll: I know in film school we were taught to take a critical view, so that you can improve the next time. The problem is it becomes very easy to be critical of everything that is not perfection or to your liking. Which sometimes means, it didn't meet you personal expectations. So, yeah! Critics need to be taken with a grain of salt. They can make mistakes, too.

Oh,I'm of the opinion that we "average Joes" take the artsy views of the so-called critics of the world,and their reviews,crumple them up into a little ball,and toss them away in the nearest trash can! What do THEY know anyway? One has to see a film for one's self to make an accurate personal appraisal. Then,by word of mouth,to friends and one-on-one contact does the word get out that a film is either "good" or "bad". I take what these people say with a grain of salt,until I see for MYSELF!!!

Personally, I've learnt about the tastes of the reviewers writing for the newspapers and magazines I usually read and know what to make of them. For example, there is one reviewer I usually agree with and I take his advice when he recommends to go and see or not to go and see one film, while there is another who tends to make masterpieces out of films that bore me to death and only gives 2 or 3 out of 5 to the films I end up liking best.

Hello. :) Paooo, harsh critics! I'm sad. They shouldn't criticize before the film air. The way they do make people think they will not go to see it. And if they are wrong and the movie is good afterall, it's too late, nobody would have seen it. :(

Normally I'll be able to watch the movie on May 20. Let's hope it will really air! Pffff I wonder if it's true Ioan does not play in a good way in this movie.

Nic, it's certainly not true! (:censored critics!)He plays Sir Benjamin a certain way - a sort of brooding, Brontesque, flawed hero, but it is good to watch and well-acted in that style. And, hey, We all need a bit of Mr. Rochester type hero now and again. Eh, girls? :whistle

Really Stevie? :) I trust you then. I can't wait to see Ioan in this movie! I love long time period hero like that too. :) With costumes etc...

In the book, Sir Benjamin was a bit of an eccentric, lonely brooder when Maria first came, so that personality makes lot of sense. He does lighten up, but adding some darkness (due to the loss of his true love) to his character would bring more suspense to the story. I'm just glad they made the decision to let Sir Benjamin looks like Ioan and not the corpulent fellow described in the book. Plus if Sir Benjamin were chubby and humorous there would be no contrast for the humorus characters of Ms. Heliotrope and Marmaduke etc. And yes, I could use a little Mr. Rochester in my life.

Hey,I could use a LOT of Mr. Rochester in my life,particularly if he looked like,......well,.......you know.....