Since you call some good movies as “mediocre” like your opinion is the most important. You can’t say “I don’t like it” or mention “In my opinion”. Every time I read your reviews you are too hard-driving to movie makers. And it creating a movies is harder than it looks. “Baby Driver” was mediocre for me but I value the effort of people who made it and I respect people who love it.
sorry in advance, but this is going to be lengthy. i see that when i try to explain my position in fewer words, i leave too much space for fantasizing.
i thought it was pretty obvious by default that my blog is the place where i express my opinions. yes, i don’t sugarcoat them, but tough shit if hollywood directors can’t take valid criticism from a little ukrainian girl. after all, i never make up criticisms and always try to learn about the movie and what other ppl think about it before writing the post.
my criticism points is not something that can be narrowed down to “just my opinion” anyway. if someone offers you a rotten apple, is it “just your opinion” that it is rotten? should you eat it anyway so that the person is not insulted? you know, growing apples is harder than it looks, after all. the same with cinematograph. if the lens is out of focus, then it is out of focus. if there is no character arc, then there is no character arc.
the reason why i do this is because i love cinema. for the last year, it has become my passion. i love it as an art form, and since i started learning more about it - directorship, screenwriting, editing - i started caring even more. but it didn’t change how i vuew movies. the difference is that now i can articulate clearly what i liked or didn’t like about a movie, and how i believe it could be better. “I don’t like it” is a bad criticism, because there is nothing you can do it. do you remember when you were talking about your friend who thought themselves to be a great artist, but couldn’t even shade properly, and you didn’t know how to say it to them? if someone were to tell them “i don’t like your drawing”, what does it give them to work with? what will they do with this peace of information? does it give them another person’s perspective, a hint about how to make it better? or will they just disregard it as hate and go back to making badly-shaded artwork? well, the same logic can be applied to movies. like, i don’t dream of driving tarantino to tears every night he goes to bed. i dream of directors making quality creative movies instead of formulaic cashgrabs. and i’m very sorry that you have an impression that i’m going to hard on them, but i am not going to close my eyes on failures that could have been avoided, out of fear of insulting people who don’t even know i exist. i always mention good things about movies even if i didn’t like them (like “Zastava” and “Love Witch”). And i have nothing but praise for “Zemlya” and every movie Chan-Wook Park made, ever, so it’s not like i only spit negativity. If you would like it, i can try writing more descriptive reviews about movies I did like? Otherwise, my movies tag is “movie reviews noone asked for” (please note how self-degradatory my “most important opinions” tag is), and you can block it anytime.
