Trailer humor can be very misleading for me. I remember thinking that Rushmore looked horrible based on the trailer. But ended up seeing it on a preview night and now it’s one of my favorite movies.

This film isn not intended to be funny. It has its giggle moments in the trailer, but I never got the idea that they were passing it off as a comedy.

Fanboys does look good, and is set as a comedy with heart.

Granted, but all sites have a scale by which they rate films.

Usually a “out of” system, but its there.

Even the iconic “thumbs up” or “down” is scaled to variations on “two enthusiastic thumbs up” scaling to lesser rated descriptiveness of thumbs down.

Much of the black and white you see is just commenters giving their one line reviews of positive or negative, which I find tend to be of three categories. Shit, ok, and Awesome.

Not directed at themovieblogs reviewing system, Rodney. Just in general. Seems like a lot of people expect great things from movies and if they don’t reach the level that they expect then the movie is shit.

Like Terminator Salvation for instance. You explained the highs and lows for the movie and the rating based on that. Your review fell into a gray area, it just happened to be closer to dark than light. Some people that post how they felt about it that did not like it basically acted like it was the worse movie ever made. Like it falls into the same batch of films as Battlefield Earth and the Spirit. There was no gray area for them. They went hoping for some amazing and walked away disappointed it did not match what they were hoping for so it was thus a steaming pile of shit.

Personally I liked it, though there were a few short comings. The movie left a lot to my imagination which I personally like. I’d still rate in the gray area, but on a lighter side with the first two Terminator movies.

I use Terminator as an example just because it is current and I just saw it.

There is lots of gray in reviews.

Thats why we rate them out of 10. (everyone has a scale)

Ya, I agree. Kinda interesting how movie reviews have gone to black and white with no gray in between.

I agree with you on Fanboys. It was a great movie, for sure, but not perfect. Of course it seems the general mentality on the majority of the Internet these days is if something isn’t ‘Great’ then its bad.

Looking forward to checking 77 out to see how it plays out, the premise sounds like it could be entertaining.