I use to read critic reviews all the time before watching movies cause of what they had to say about it, but now I feel that by doing so, it causes me to develop a compromised judgement of the movie, cause if something bothered the critic, I will be looking out for that when I watch the movie.
For example, when I read Roger Ebert's review of Die Hard, he pointed out how he didn't like the idiotic police commanding officer who kept making mistakes, and then when watching the movie, I couldn't help but be on the lookout for that. Something I might not have noticed as much, had I not been told that as a criticism beforehand.
So I will check to see if a movie got much of a score on rottentomatoes or not, but will not read the actual reviews. But what do you think?
For example, when I read Roger Ebert's review of Die Hard, he pointed out how he didn't like the idiotic police commanding officer who kept making mistakes, and then when watching the movie, I couldn't help but be on the lookout for that. Something I might not have noticed as much, had I not been told that as a criticism beforehand.
So I will check to see if a movie got much of a score on rottentomatoes or not, but will not read the actual reviews. But what do you think?