RE: My Personal Thoughts on "Justice League" by ezzy

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· @ezzy · (edited)
$3.12
Hence it's not a "review" per se and purely my initial thoughts after watching it...
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@charitybot ·
Can I be honest for a second here? Yeah, that's frowned upon here, but I'm going to write this just because I love movies and I want everyone to experience movies, at least good movies, on a level that's at least a bit deeper than just surface level.

You have a big stack and a lot of big allies, so you get upvoted for a lot every time you post one of these. That's nice. I'm sure it's great to be able to earn a return on the relationships you've built in the community. I'm not going to say that you don't deserve to get paid for the time you've invested into creating content for this website, or for fostering friendships with other long-standing members of the community.

But all your reviews read exactly the same. You're just phoning them in. Or if you aren't, then I don't quite know what to say because I don't know what your actual, literal ability to analyze the movies you watch is. And I don't know how good you are at conveying that in words, or if this is your maximum effort. I would hate to think or say that, because even though not everyone is born with an ability ceiling approaching godlike, anyone can still approach something under or near the level of "mastery" or at least "somewhat very good, highly experienced person who slowly honed their craft" if they give it enough time and effort.

Now to critique your reviews.

"X character was good. Y character was bad. Conversations good. Visuals were good. Better than last time. Movie was okay. Similar to Z movie."

You're mad libbing your reviews such that they sound exactly like one another. Is that really the depth of your "Personal Thoughts" on movies?

My apologies if this is offensive, maybe this is how you really felt about the movies. I can't deny that someone can feel a certain way about a movie. Maybe there just isn't that much to write about blockbusters, and maybe that's why you should watch some that actually give you pause and cause to think.

And here, unfortunately they just ended the series, but I highly recommend this channel if you haven't already seen it before. https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting
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@ezzy · (edited)
$3.10
Wow... Some of the stuff I read on Steemit never ceases to amaze me. So you reckon  my "reviews" don't go in-depth enough for you, right? Well, maybe I'll start a new series tag-lined "In-depth analysis" instead and go into pages and pages of what you "really" wanna hear. But sadly time constraints in my private life prevent me from doing so.

Jeez, I tell ya. 

> "X character was good. Y character was bad. Conversations good. Visuals were good. Better than last time. Movie was okay. Similar to Z movie."

What's that supposed to mean? You've just described a few key elements of any movie, lol. Every post I've written links back to the movie in question with examples as to "why" I reached the conclusions I did. I mean, doesn't every "review" out there have a format too? Whilst I may touch on similar aspects of movies throughout, they are "my" personal take on "that" particular movie. Based on those factors related to movies! Namely *characters, cinematography, acting skills, etc*.  Not just some randomly generic ramblings.

But anyways, that's beside the point. I noticed you joined pretty recently. So maybe instead of spending your time "criticising" others posts on what you think they ought to be, try to concentrate on building your "own" blog and following. Coz I like to think I've earned my place here on Steemit. You see, that's the beauty of this platform. You think you can do a better job? Go right ahead and start reviewing stuff. At the moment, all the credit to your name is a bunch of resteems. Would love to see you're professionalism in action.

Other than that, I think we're done here. Best of luck and hope you fix the errors you saw in my posts via your own blog... *(Unbelievable)*...
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@charitybot ·
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@ziofeda ·
$1.53
Forgive me if I get in the middle of this, but there's a couple things I would like to point out in regard to your comment. It's not really about defending Ezzy, who is more than capable of doing it by himself. It's more of something that relates to the idea of steemit and blogging itself.

In the first place, honesty is not necessarily frowned upon around here. Some people are afraid it will get them flagged, but as you see, that's not even the case. I noticed that a lot of people here behave in a very formal manner, or think that civilized discussion means always saying "yes" to every opinion, but I actually found out (in a little more than a couple weeks, so yeah, I'm a noob) that people that disagree with authors, even famous ones, and still behave somewhat decently (no need to be aggressive, right?) can actually interact in a healthy discussion and be happy about it. Unfortunately, most of the other platforms work in a way that has made us forget what the word "discussing" means. 

Secondly, and most importantly, you might have to rethink your concept of "blogging", dude. You don't have to be a movie critic to blog about movies. You don't have to analyze in-depth cinematography and photography and scripts if you don't want to. You can just write down a couple of thoughts, that's what blogging is in the first place. If people like your thoughts, you have success. Have you ever talked to a buddy of yours about a movie you saw? Did you keep them standing there half an hour while you dissected the movie piece by piece, or did you just give them your brief opinion? That's what Ezzy does, if you don't like that, there's plenty of online magazines with professional critics that you can explore and read. 

Third, and this pertains to movies (and not only movies) themselves:

> I love movies and I want everyone to experience movies, at least good movies, on a level that's at least a bit deeper than just surface level.

I get it, more than you can imagine. I'm one of those guys who have to put thought behind every experience, reading, gaming, watching series and movies. I like to understand the technical aspects, I like to understand the philosophy, I like to understand the message and how it's conveyed to me. I get it. But the truth is, that every product can be enjoyable on two different levels, one immediate, and one deep, and not everybody like to see everything on the deep level.  Some people outright refuse anything that requires critical thinking, and as much as I don't get it, we have to respect that choice. We could spend an evening talking about how great Mulholland Drive was, but if I dare to show it to my girlfriend, she *will* kill me before dying of boredom. So as much as we need good reviewers who point out details and "educate", sometimes we need someone to just say "dude, you'll enjoy this one, it's cool", and that's it. It doesn't mean that the're not capable of understanding the finesse behind a movie, it just means they chose a friendly, direct way of expressing their thought. Then, those of us who have the need to analyze will analyze.
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@charitybot ·
It's not about the platform, it's about which social circles you inhabit that  determines how open people are to discussion and the exchange of ideas. The monetary incentives make it rather tempting to suppress what one truly thinks about things here, and most opt to stay silent if they can't write anything nice. It's literally all about appearances. Do people want to flag other people? Sure. But they don't want to come off looking like vindictive assholes, or face retribution, which is why it isn't more commonly employed. That plus it eats into your profit margins, which is probably the largest factor.

Low-quality content being voted to the frontpage every day ad nauseam is only a part of what kills this site's chances of being taken seriously, so I'm going to continue calling things like they are, regardless of the $ value attached. The entire structure of the site is a mess and Korean speculation+Tether printing can't keep prices this high forever, so enjoy it while it lasts. Because when markets are booming there's room for any and every kind of speculative gamble, but when capital investment shrinks people start to question what gives something its value, and steemit in its current form will have a hard time passing that test.

Mulholland drive is okay, it's not all that people make it out to be. It's very much in the camp of "make this so confusing people will question everything and attribute more genius to it than actually exists within the piece".
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