I wanted to address one thing that gbgoodies said in Yoda's baseball thread:
Here's my original response:
To elaborate, our subconscious is mighty powerful, and more often than not, we're unknowingly influenced by it, for better or worse. This is true when we watch a film somebody we trust gave a high rating. But it's even truer when we're about to reevaluate something we probably kind of liked back in the day ONLY BECAUSE AND ONLY AFTER we saw an opinion enumerating all the faults and problems with the film. In such a case, we recalibrate our brains to look for those 'faults' and start to care about them / mind them much more than we would otherwise.
I sometimes see this when people ape another (popular/"respected") reviewer's opinion about a film, an opinion that was based on a political or worldview pet peeve of that person. I'm sure that most of those people wouldn't even look for that or notice it but given the explicit idea that they SHOULD, gives them the incentive to do it.
This is similar to watching one of the 'terrible movies' with the preconceived notion that it's indeed going to be terrible instead of a tabula rasa approach of 'lemme see if it's terrible'. A confirmation bias of sorts.
I'll have to rewatch it with your review in mind to see if it stood the test of time.
NEVER do that. "Standing the test of time" is a problematic and harmful expression in and of itself if you mean it in terms of not being obsolete or archaic.
Another thing is as follows: Never set out to reevaluate a movie with a single person's opinion in mind, especially somebody you respect/don't think of as a complete munchkin. This is a surefire way to introduce some very nasty subconscious bias that wouldn't be there otherwise.
Another thing is as follows: Never set out to reevaluate a movie with a single person's opinion in mind, especially somebody you respect/don't think of as a complete munchkin. This is a surefire way to introduce some very nasty subconscious bias that wouldn't be there otherwise.
I sometimes see this when people ape another (popular/"respected") reviewer's opinion about a film, an opinion that was based on a political or worldview pet peeve of that person. I'm sure that most of those people wouldn't even look for that or notice it but given the explicit idea that they SHOULD, gives them the incentive to do it.
This is similar to watching one of the 'terrible movies' with the preconceived notion that it's indeed going to be terrible instead of a tabula rasa approach of 'lemme see if it's terrible'. A confirmation bias of sorts.