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I think another acceptable explanation is that movies are marketed not to everyone but to certain people. So say the latest horror flick that comes around is m
by bb88 5y ago
I think another acceptable explanation is that movies are marketed not to everyone but to certain people.
So say the latest horror flick that comes around is marketed to teens and 20-somethings. The over-30 crowd gets turned off by violence and gore. But that particular demographic loves it, and the more gore the more they like it.
There's a certain group of people that loved Human Centipede, e.g. But it got terrible reviews. Roger Ebert refused to award it stars, but gave it a few positive notes regardless.
And in it he even said:
I have long attempted to take a generic approach. In
other words, is a film true to its genre and does it
deliver what its audiences presumably expect? “The Human
Centipede” scores high on this scale. It is depraved and
disgusting enough to satisfy the most demanding midnight
movie fan. And it's not simply an exploitation film.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-human-centipede-2010 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-human-centipede-2010
- mrob 5y agoOn the other hand, Ebert followed the critical consensus and gave Freddy Got Fingered (my personal pick for funniest movie of all time) a zero star rating. This is a gross-out comedy that succeeds spectacularly at what it set out to do, but very few critics were willing to judge it by the standards of the genre. The audience scores are very polarized (currently 56% positive on RT), but critic's reviews are only at 11%.
- bb88 5y agoHow does that challenge the argument that movies are marketed to certain groups of people? Gross out movies don't typically get marketed to soccer moms.