Is it the only movie that pleb filtered the entire world upon release?

Is it the only movie that pleb filtered the entire world upon release?

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I can think of quite a few more. The most recent being Godzilla: King of the Monsters

"It has no pace, sloppy continuity, bland characters. It's my contention that John Carpenter was never meant to direct science fiction horror movies. Here are some things he'd be better suited to direct: Traffic accidents, train wrecks and public floggings..." - Alan Spencer, Starlog magazine November, 1982

"A surprising failure" "Carpenter's most unsatisfying film to date." - Phil Hardy, Science Fiction (1984)

"Too phony looking to be disgusting. It qualifies only as instant junk" "A foolish, depressing, overproduced movie that mixes horror with science fiction to make something that is fun as neither one thing or the other. Sometimes it looks as if it aspired to be the quintessential moron movie of the 80's" - Vincent Canby, New York Times

"It seems clear that Carpenter made his choice early on to concentrate on the special effects and the technology and to allow the story and people to become secondary. Because this material has been done before, and better, especially in the original "The Thing"" - Roger Ebert

"This movie is more disgusting than frightening, and most of it is just boring." David Denby, New York Magazine

"The structure of the piece reminds unpleasantly of porno films..." - Daily Variety

"So single-mindedly determined to keep you awake that it almost puts you to sleep" - David Ansen, Newsweek

"A wretched excess" - Gary Arnold, The Washington Post

"The only avenue left to explore would seem to be either concentration camp documentaries or the snuff movie." - William Parente, The Scotsman

"What the old picture delivered – and what Carpenter has missed – was a sense of intense dread." Variety (In 1951, the same paper had said of Nyby's film: "The resourcefulness shown in building the plot groundwork is lacking as the yarn gets into full swing. Cast members fail to communicate any real terror.")

"If you want blood, go to the slaughterhouse. All in all, it's a terrific commercial for J&B Scotch." - Christian Nyby, director of the original

*Blocks Carpenter's path*

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Starship Troopers did the same.

Just a reminder that these are all real “film critics” and that some people take their opinion seriously

Wow, it must be so embarrassing to look back on what is now considered to be one of the best horror films of all time and realize that you trashed it because it was the popular thing to do at the time. Critics really are sheep.

>Dude if the movie has good effects that means they didn't care about the story or characters
That's every pretentious critic in the 80s

While I like The Thing, I have to say that these were critics back then, you know, ones actually criticizing movies. Now compare them with current "critics" who literally asslick any shitty "diversity" flick or even all that superhero garbage. They have no balls to criticize anymore. Should they still be called 'critics' then?

Those old critics were pretentious up their own ass pseudo intellectuals. Now they're pretentious up their own ass psedo intellectual brainwashed pc zombies