Look at the average ratings and you'll generally get a good idea that for an overwhelming number of people, this was in the 'okay' to 'pretty good' range. As always we have the haters who decide to give movies a 1 without considering any of the specific content, and people who give out 10s like candy at a parade. The truth as with 99.99% of films lies in between.
Like others I found this entertaining, and like others there were some slow parts. For those who cry about cliches (there are some), I'd like to look at your ratings of older movies and see if you really appreciated them for 'creating' the cliche, and then challenge you to go create something better instead of blasting every film with one.
Cliches exist because, well, they work for most people most of the time. Should I follow the rolling glass? Why not play with a ouija? We see these things and yet we still keep watching movies when we know every film or show has them. You could stop watching and read instead but guess what? There are cliches in literature.
People do stupid stuff all the time and yes, sometimes the unthinkable happens. If they didn't the average lifespan would be 100. So get over it. You could choose to find these humorous and think of the film as horror-comedy-science fiction, would that work?
Now off my hyper-critical soap box.
I didn't love Verónica but I've seen much much worse. The acting wasn't horrible in general. It wasn't riveting but it was entertaining enough, if you want to be entertained. The special effects, imperfect, but not every film is high budget. (look at it as comedy then). The story is based on an allegedly true story, so how do you criticize that? The artistic licenses with the facts of the story were okay or logical in areas, worse in others. And if you don't want to consider the actual story original enough, then surely it's better than a 1 in the originality category compared to the 'let's move into this abandoned house' or 'there's a psychopath chasing us with a ___' (choose gruesome weapon).
If you like to slam every other movie and often rate things as a 1, the don't watch it! What's it say about you if you saw a 6.2 rating and 'wasted your time'? You followed that rolling glass, didn't you.
Like others I found this entertaining, and like others there were some slow parts. For those who cry about cliches (there are some), I'd like to look at your ratings of older movies and see if you really appreciated them for 'creating' the cliche, and then challenge you to go create something better instead of blasting every film with one.
Cliches exist because, well, they work for most people most of the time. Should I follow the rolling glass? Why not play with a ouija? We see these things and yet we still keep watching movies when we know every film or show has them. You could stop watching and read instead but guess what? There are cliches in literature.
People do stupid stuff all the time and yes, sometimes the unthinkable happens. If they didn't the average lifespan would be 100. So get over it. You could choose to find these humorous and think of the film as horror-comedy-science fiction, would that work?
Now off my hyper-critical soap box.
I didn't love Verónica but I've seen much much worse. The acting wasn't horrible in general. It wasn't riveting but it was entertaining enough, if you want to be entertained. The special effects, imperfect, but not every film is high budget. (look at it as comedy then). The story is based on an allegedly true story, so how do you criticize that? The artistic licenses with the facts of the story were okay or logical in areas, worse in others. And if you don't want to consider the actual story original enough, then surely it's better than a 1 in the originality category compared to the 'let's move into this abandoned house' or 'there's a psychopath chasing us with a ___' (choose gruesome weapon).
If you like to slam every other movie and often rate things as a 1, the don't watch it! What's it say about you if you saw a 6.2 rating and 'wasted your time'? You followed that rolling glass, didn't you.