A glorified viral video I think is pretty acurate, everything else you said was absurd gibberish. Most of your criticisms are just extreme prejudice and double standards, not to mention your imaginative assumption about it's target audience, which was way off and probably psychological projection.
You asked. I'm not sure I could even give you a satisfactory answer since your question practically demanded that I make some conjecture, which is why I prefaced my response with "it doesn't matter what I think". It was a trap.
You don't think IMDB has unreasonable/knee jerk reaction ratings? Was Kung Fury not aimed at a 80's kitsch audience?
Not sure if this is aimed at me or Zotis.
I don't think Kung Fury can be merely reduced to kitsch status, even if it does have that element. I also think that Iro missed the point in regards to the IMDB rating.
If you take away the kitsch, then what's left?
In this thread, and Iro's review, I see too many assumptions passed off as facts, and too much subjectivivity passed off as objectivity.
I never said I was being objective. That's an assumption on your part.
I also see a lack of honesty when Kung Fury is criticised for things that movies it's critics praise can also be criticised for.
You can be the tastiest peach in the world and there will still be people who hate peaches.
I'm not saying that people here don't have valid criticisms, but I also don't get the impression that those criticisms are the real reasons for the low rating. If it really is as bad as Iro says it is, then I think sites like IMDB would probably reflect that a little bit more. Less than 1% of the IMDB ratings were negative. I think that says something that Iro isn't willing to admit to himself.
Exactly
why can't they be the real reasons? They're my reasons. Besides, I'm not sure why you're putting so much stock in IMDb as a barometer of a film's inherent worth. The whole thing feels like an appeal to popularity and the fact that your counter to me saying I don't like a film is "but look at all these other people who do like it" is, well, absurd. Also, I don't know where you're getting your "less than 1%" figures because, if the
voting breakdown is to be believed, then 1.2% of people gave it a 1/10 rating, and that's not counting the other votes that are under 6/10.
Because it appeals to many people's taste.
It's not like I would give Fury Road a 0.5 rating.
A, that's a boring (if technically correct) answer. B, it's not like other people wouldn't.
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