WTF are crtics thinking

The Critics also gave "The Third Man" and "2001" bad reviews when they came out. So Who Cares. Overall Walter Mitty wasn't that Bad. I mean if you want to see how bad a movie can be. Check Out "Troll 2".

Totally with ya. I was actually stunned by how good the film actually was, after seeing a couple of mildly-to-moderately negative reviews. I absolutely loved it -- screamingly funny at times without being mean-spirited or vulgar, with decent people, true-to-life observations (like the whole downsizing thing and the people involved in it), absolutely gorgeous cinematography, really a great updating of Thurber's story with a lot of elements that really made sense, and a very human sort of feel to the whole thing. Just could not recommend it more strongly.

Monaghan, I agree with you completely. I gave this movie a 8 out of 10 stars and almost gave a 9. That's why I try to look at all reviews (critics and users) and then I just trust my gut.

My only disappointment is that if it had gotten better reviews, more people may have gone out to see it. It is such a nice, inspiring movie. Wish I had checked it out earlier.



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I agree with you. So many people are short sighted these days.

I agree, well put.

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This movie was terrible, the critics had it right with this one. It was boring and was very predictable (spoiler alert: he ends up with the girl!) I also agree with some of the critics that under a different director it may have been a better movie but with Stiller directing it just fails

I don't know how people can apologize for the product placement or have it not bother them. It is put in there ONLY to promote a product, the brands were not essential to the story, and is so glaringly obvious in this move it jars you out of the story. Generic equivalents of all the companies could have been used. The Cinnabon was the absolute worst and had no place being in there whatsoever, at least the others had some involvement in forwarding the plot so some small consolation could be given.

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I will just copy/paste what I said in another thread :

All the people saying "omg how can this be only 7.4 etc..." are wrong. This is a movie a bit better than average imo, but definitely not a must see, definitely not a very good or great movie. The movie that comes to mind when you see this is Forrest Gump, and unfortunately for tSLoWT it pales in comparison to Forrest Gump cause one is a classical movie and the other one is (just) an okay movie. (I won't even talk about the Truman Show).
Watching tSLoWM once you've seen Forrest Gump is like watching Carlito's Way once you've seen the Godfather, or watching Air Force One once you've seen Die Hard. You know you have watched a decent movie, but you also know that you have seen far better years ago.

PS: Product placement was not an issue for me, this doesn't make this movie better or worse.