Spellbinder (1988)
7/10
We all entitled to own opinions
9 January 2022
But I don't get the negative reviews to some movies. More so the extremely negative movie reviews, with responses like "worst movie ever". When you know it's not possibly the worst movie they ever saw unless it was the only movie.

I see some with the reasoning too much blood as they are reviewing a slasher movie. Or silly reasons like that. Or a "gay person doesn't even act like that". As if they are offended at the generalization. When it's them who are being the Hippocrates. Because they seem to be insinuating that they in fact know how a "gay person should act". It's literally one character who happens to be gay. I think the writer understands how he wanted that one character to act. Just silly stupid reasons to give a movie bad review & why it's so sad & frustrating that the process will never be true when it's flooded with biases, people over-analyzing, and people who are reviewing movies from genres they prob aren't even fans of. Giving us completely jaded views.

If you are a fan of & enjoy horror-ish movies, more so sub-genres of the horror genre. Then I can't imagine that you would see this movie and not like it. It's from the 80's and so whenever you plan to watch a movie, the time it was filmed & what was available to movie makers has to be taken into consideration. Some of my favorite movies are from a time well before this movie was made. But I understand a movie from the 1940's is going to be a lot dif than a movie from a year ago in 2020. The cast was good, the acting good, I thought to plot was good. I wouldn't try & sell it off as the best movie you'll ever watch. But I think it's def one of those movies where it's good to have seen once. Considering movies in genres like this usually have shoddy production & budget restraints, To me it's actually above average movie when you're grading it on a scale against other movies of its kind. Which, imo, all movies should be graded on scale with others in its genre. It's kind of silly comparing a movie like Texas chainsaw Massacre with Citizen Kane or comparing Caddy Shack to the Big Sleep with Bogey. I sometimes a movie is meant for cheap thrill & not to make a clean sweep at the Oscars: it feels like some people are disappointed at any film doesn't explain the meaning of life to the viewer or some other silly requirement . Or they offended at something in that's so silly. Or pick a reason you've seen in a review board.
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