Parth's view

How do you decide whether to watch a particular movie or not? Do you judge the movie by its IMDb rating? I am sure most of you do this. I too used to do this for all the movies before I watched them, until I realized that I was very wrong. Let me tell you why I think so. Now, the IMDb rating that you see for every movie, is the average of what thousands, lakhs or even millions of people have rated it. Critics do not play any role in the IMDb ratings that you use as a meter to judge movies. As you can see above, I have taken an example of the movie Mockingjay Part 2.  38869 users' reviews are averaged to make a 7.1/10 rating. You too, can vote your opinion there! Choice differs from person to person. Some person would love a 9 rated movie, while someone would detest it!  It all depends on your taste of movies. For example, MARVEL has a huge fan following worldwide. As for me, I am not a great fan of MAVEL. So the crazy 8.7 rating of the “Infinity War” baff...

The Aquaman and SHAZAM trailers recently released at the SAN DIEGO Comic-con gave the DC fans a hope of revival, especially after the badly turned out Justice League. It can be clearly seen that DC is trying to get it together finally.   But is it too late? MARVEL (MCU), currently having the absolute monopoly over the superhero genre of cinema, has churned out 18 superhero movies since their cinema debut in 2008. Before that, in the 2000’s, X-MEN ruled in this genre. This franchise too, has 11 movies till date. That’s a lot of superheroes! And now, amidst this saturation of movies, DC plans to reintroduce or rather reboot their superhero movies under the name DC (unofficially DCEU). Questioning the ability of DC to lay a strong foundation for their characters is not the point here (though that needs serious questioning). My point is, isn’t it enough? Are the audience not weary of superheroes? Apart from the visual treat and witty dialogues, superhero movies have noth...