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Which is why I never listen to critics (be it film or book) - to me that's just another person's opinion and it could be completely different from my opinion. Case in point - a guy I used to work with absolutely hates John Carpenter's Vampires - I love it
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There are critics and there are critics, though - read, say,
Empire magazine (UK) and you get a film student mentality raving its glib opinions about the latest flavour-of-the-month actor or high concept movie. This is probably where you're most likely to find disagreements about films like
Vampires (which I think is quite underrated for the record).
Read a less fanboy-based publication on the other hand and you can find well constructed, less frenzied reviews full of ideas for the movie in question and less likely to rub you up the wrong way because of a more informed approach to the subject matter - i.e. from those who look at each film on its own merits rather than young bandwagon-jumpers making snidey comparisons left right and centre.
Of course, you can get too highbrow - listen to these old farts dismissing the spaghetti-horrors out of hand and you realise many of the more established critics sadly can't see past
Citizen Kane.