Comments on: 1408 http://www.filmmuser.com/2007/07/03/1408/ quick-and-dirty film reviews Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:52:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: ryan http://www.filmmuser.com/2007/07/03/1408/#comment-165 ryan Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:46:35 +0000 http://www.filmmuser.com/2007/07/03/1408/#comment-165 Before setting to go out to the movies yesterday I checked, as usual, two of the more respected online movie review resources - rotten tomatoes and filmmuser. I too had seen the 1408 trailer and had a real good feeling about this movie. Rotten tomatoes gave a high score (~79%) and favorable reviewes while filmmuser warned against seeing it. I decided based on the merits of the trailer (normally not a good idea) I would see 1408. I am not going to go into how bad this movie is (it does suck) as I think filmmuser does a good job of this. The point of this comment is to commend filmmuser for getting it right again. This site is hard and gritty and takes on the topic of movie review head on - nice job. Before setting to go out to the movies yesterday I checked, as usual, two of the more respected online movie review resources - rotten tomatoes and filmmuser. I too had seen the 1408 trailer and had a real good feeling about this movie. Rotten tomatoes gave a high score (~79%) and favorable reviewes while filmmuser warned against seeing it.

I decided based on the merits of the trailer (normally not a good idea) I would see 1408. I am not going to go into how bad this movie is (it does suck) as I think filmmuser does a good job of this.

The point of this comment is to commend filmmuser for getting it right again. This site is hard and gritty and takes on the topic of movie review head on - nice job.

]]> By: Hemant Naidu http://www.filmmuser.com/2007/07/03/1408/#comment-187 Hemant Naidu Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:25:16 +0000 http://www.filmmuser.com/2007/07/03/1408/#comment-187 Thank-you for your comments, Ryan. I try and write my reviews prior to reading any other reviews in an attempt to give a unbiased account of my experience. And yes, I agree that basing whether to see a movie merely on its trailer is usually a bad idea. I think a trailer can make any movie look good - especially in recent years where a lot of work goes into producing them alone. Here's an <a href="http://www.filmthreat.com/blog/?p=784" rel="nofollow">interesting blog post on trailers</a> I read a while back. Thank-you for your comments, Ryan. I try and write my reviews prior to reading any other reviews in an attempt to give a unbiased account of my experience.

And yes, I agree that basing whether to see a movie merely on its trailer is usually a bad idea. I think a trailer can make any movie look good - especially in recent years where a lot of work goes into producing them alone.

Here’s an interesting blog post on trailers I read a while back.

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