At the time the show aired the only successful prime time animation shows in the history of television were The Flintstones and The Simpsons. ABC picked it up due to it's Simpsons pedigree but hand inked animation is a slow and expensive process. The concept of an animated sitcom was a novelty at the time (hard to believe, I know) so when the numbers didn't meet their expectations they dumped it. FOX picked it up as a companion piece to The Simpsons but dumped it for the same reason. There is a Simpsons/Critic crossover episode though.
Maybe that is where I recognise him from... Here's hoping we get a new Critic season, with popculture references from this decade. Especially with all the terrible things that have happened to cinema.
Cowboys & Aliens was a predictable mess. A generic western and a generic alien movie combined into one. Great. I'm going to watch No Country for Old Men and War of the Worlds simultaneously to get the bad taste out of my mouth.
I liked Cowboys vs Aliens personally I tend to totally ignore reviewers they don't know how to sit back and enjoy a film for what it is. In this case the title tells you all you need to know about it I don't think anyone is going to go in expecting a complete masterpiece it's a sci-fi action flick.
I'm sorry but BULLSH*T. I HATE the stigmatism against critics, if all the critics you read/watch don't know how to sit back and enjoy a film, YOU'RE USING THE WRONG CRITICS. Not every critic is friggin' Ebert. Try some less mainstream online critics like Moviebob or Angry Joe. Critics are a tool, if you don't find critics with similar to tastes to you, of course you aren't going to agree. Jesus, what a dumba*s. Do you turn on your lawn mower and then act pissed off it doesn't mow the lawn on its own? *deep breath* I'm okay..I'm okay.
I can only laugh then at all the money you must blow on shite every year because you didn't listen to critics.
You've just proved my point there and if critics want to be taken more seriously they should probably stop spouting garbage everywhere. Pretty much every film critic I've seen lately is a pretentious moron whose opinion is worthless, they should probably just get a real job. By the way you can actually buy mowers that do just that they have been about a while gotta love technology.
Then find some good critics. Don't spit slander at all critics everywhere because you disagreed with a couple. It just makes you look a total idiot. There a tons of critics out there who are truly fantastic and they deserve to be recognised, two I mentioned above. I'm sorry that it appears all you've read is Ebert, I disagree with him most of the time too. Someone that pretentious giving Grindhouse movies bad scores while missing the whole point really pisses me off.
Their entitled to their opinions but their no more worthy than anyone else's in my opinion in fact I'd even argue less so on account of bribes, bias and freebies. I'm much more likely to listen to someone I knew who had seen the film or even user reviews on IMDB (although not if there isn't a fair amount of them).
Which is why I use both critics I have similar tastes too and ones not affiliated with a certain newspaper, website, magazine. company or whatever. There are some people out there, genuine people, who want to be a critic to simply share their love for movies and help people save their money. You can always tell from a mile away when reviews are simply adverts like say in Empire magazine. So avoid those!
But those arent classed as critics. They are just people reviewing movies. Critics are the people who write for papers, magazines, sites etc....
Exactly what I was thinking when I saw the Tomatometer. The title makes it so blatantly obvious that it's not trying to be some Academy Award-winner that to attempt to take it for something bigger is more than pretentious.
Yeah but even a popcorn movie can fail its purpose, to entertain, and that's all I've heard that this has done - fail to entertain that is. That being said, the original graphic novel was shite anyway.
