All you people who gave this movie a four or less,

I think it's mostly millenials who can't sit through a long story without dialogue. It's the antithesis of the constant feed of stimulus that they need in order to be engaged by something.

So guess what? We can kiss slow-burn contemplative storytelling goofbye.

First of all, I've not seen All is Lost.

My wife watched it when I wasn't around, and she hated it.

She doesn't go for the kind of intellectual discussion that I prefer (frustrating for me at times), but she has a stronger 'gut reaction' to things than I have, which makes for very simple, direct reviews.

She basically hated it because she found it incredibly boring and derivative.

I'm sorry if this falls into the category of a review that 'doesn't count' in your eyes, but that's how my wife reviews things. I can blather on all day about story, character, theme, design, while my wife sees things in a simpler way. For example, she loves the film This Is England. Why? Purely for the performance of the kid. That's all she needs to key into.

Not everybody is interested in justifying their reasons for liking something or not. Some people have more of an emotional reaction than an intellectual one. Those who react emotionally are more likely to hand out 1's and 10's around here than those to react more intellectually.




Never defend crap with 'It's just a movie'
http://www.youtube.com/user/BigGreenProds

Because they're plebs who don't recognise quality work even when they're beaten about the head with it. ✌

I rated it poorly because as someone who sails a fair bit, it struck me as the dumbest, un-realistic movie I seen since Ishtar.

So many amazing and unnecessary mistakes with respect to basic seamanship utterly ruined it.

It's as if the writer, director, producers, etc...had never set foot on a sunfish, much less a yacht this size.