Quote - Maybe I Am Legend will do well, maybe not.

At least one reviewer is referring to it as a "B-movie schlockfest".

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g_-D2Ja3xa5ZaDs6Y-XG3nKIMNig

shrug  That might be a guarantee of its success.........

 

Not a lot of flim critics who's opinion I respect to be honest with you.  Most film critics seem to enjoy the kind of movies that I can't stand.  Take "Brokeback Mountain" for example.  Ok, here is a movie I had zero desire to see, and yet you read the reviews and you hear things like:

*"It is simply one of the greatest love stories in film history."

*That one really made me laugh.  Now a movie like Casablanca or The African Queen, those were great love stories.  Brokeback Mountain?  Not even in the same universe IMHO.  But the critics loved it and it got 8 oscar nominations, despite the fact that it was a terrible movie. 

Critics seem to love movies along the lines of "Terms of Endearment" and "Ordinary People".  The only thing "endearing" I found about Terms of Endearment was it is a wonderfully non-addictive cure for insomnia.  Ordinary people is so mind numbingly dull that the CIA was considering using it as an interrogation technique at one point, but decided that waterboarding was far more humane than forcing even your worst enemy sit through this movie.

Remember when the first Star Wars movie came out years ago?  Critics hated it - at least until it creamed every box office record imaginable and became a huge success.  Then suddenly they started changing their tune just a bit, but for the most part most movie critics have an intense dislike of any movie with any entertainment value whatsoever.

So when it comes to the opinions of professional movie critics I generally pay no heed whatsoever, they seem to think that every movie should have some social significance or explore yet another ultra boring aspect of the human condition.   Not me, when I spend my hard earned coin going to a movie theater I want to be entertained, not preached at.  I want a good story, characters I can identify with and enough special effects and action to keep me on the edge of my seat.

Just my 2 cents worth.