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Forum Watch: Directors You Hate

Published by
mpowell
at November 26, 2008 in Forum Watch. 1 Comment

Ahh… hating. It’s an excellent pastime, and even more fun when done in a group, as part of a Frothing Mob. Unsurprisingly, many of the most active topics in the Criticker Forums are those dedicated to hate, and one of the best is Directors You Hate, started in August by jeb.

So who are the directors that Criticker’s raging mob has singled out for scorn? Here’s a little gallery of the most frequently-cited offenders:

Hate! Scorn! Disgust! Revulsion!

Recognize them all? If you have other terrible directors to add to their ranks, waste no more time in getting to the forum, and unleashing your vitriol!

For the record, my most hated director of all time is Lars von Trier — an admission I suppose might bring hatred down on me! I don’t care, I hate that guy and his awful, awful movies.

- Murder Mystery Game Collection

Forum Watch - Best So Bad It’s Good Films

Published by
mpowell
at October 20, 2008 in Forum Watch. 4 Comments

One of the more entertaining topics at the Criticker Forums is an extended study on the Best “So Bad It’s Good” films. Although applying the word “best” to any of these films is a serious stretch…

Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness was suggested by fudgieb — kudos to anyone who can watch that video without laughing (I broke at 1:36). There are a lot of other gems in this 4-page thread, and plenty of video evidence of exquisite suckery.

Samurai Cop

You don’t have to see the poster for Samurai Cop to know that it’s going to blow … but TheDenizen uploaded it, so that we could all be sure. Still, it might have the best tagline ever.

Anaconda, American Commando Ninja, Silent Night Deadly Night 2 (“Garbage Day!”), and of course The Alternate and Rollerball, which TheAlliance highlighted in the topic’s first post. There are a lot of stinking, shit-covered treasures here. Can you add to the pile?


Forum Watch: Introduce Yourself!

Published by
mpowell
at September 17, 2008 in Criticker and Forum Watch. 1 Comment

There’s a new sticky topic in the General Discussion forum called Introduce Yourself, which is serving as a way for people to say hello to the community and reveal a little about themselves. If you’re new to Criticker or to the forums, this is a good first step in meeting a great group of users and active community.

It’s our turn to take the mic, I suppose.


Hi. We’re Mike and Juergen.

I’m an American and Juergen is German. We met in Boston about 8 years ago, and since then have lived in Berlin (Germany), Western Ireland and currently Valencia (Spain). I’m a native of Minnesota, but did most of my growing up in Ohio where I studied Computer Science at Ohio University, in Athens. Juergen grew up in Darmstadt, Germany (close to Frankfurt) and is a professional photographer.

We started Criticker when my then-employer began laying off its workers without restraint or remorse. With time on our hands, we embarked on a project with the aim of matching users that had the same taste. The idea actually came when my mom appeared to me in a dream, complaining about the fact that no critic shared her taste in movies, so “why should I listen to them?” Then she turned into a vampire and bit my head off. Over a period of months, we developed and eventually released Criticker.com — albeit a version barely unrecognizable to users today.


Criticker 1.0

Currently, we spend a ton of time on Criticker, but we’re also at work on other (more lucrative) projects, such as Lastminute-Auction.com (an Ebay tool and our true breadwinner), Random-Good-Stuff.com (Juergen’s entertainment blog, peppered with his unique German humor) and HolaValencia.net (a blog dedicated to our new home town).

Juergen and I have extremely similar taste in film, owing to the fact that we spend way too much time together. We tend to most enjoy contemporary European cinema, but aren’t afraid to drop huge scores on big budget action flicks. Outside of movies, we’re both into travel & hiking, and Juergen still gets work as a professional photographer.

Phew! So, that’s us: the founders of Criticker. Now it’s your turn! Get to the forum, and introduce yourselves… we love finding out more about the people who make up the Criticker Community.

Forum Watch: When Criticker Guesses Wrong

Published by
mpowell
at September 3, 2008 in Criticker and Forum Watch. 1 Comment

Being self-righteous pricks, we often trumpet the fact that Criticker is an insanely accurate recommendation system — dead on-target almost all the time — knows people’s taste in film better than they do themselves — possibly the greatest, most important website on the internet — just utterly pwning all over the place… all these are phrases which escape our sneering lips daily.

But, truth be told, Criticker doesn’t always get things right. And the users in our forums have taken it upon themselves to sniff out those times Criticker guesses wrong. User djross started this topic a couple months ago, and it’s quickly become one of the most active in the forums.


Criticker’s never wrong: you didn’t REALLY like Road to Wellville, admit it

There’s a lot of interesting information in this thread. Ang Lee’s films seem to be among the most frequently overrated by Criticker. And our intrepid forum users have discovered that when a PSI is wildly off the mark, it tends to be overly optimistic.

Have you encountered times where your PSIs have been completely different than your actual scores? Then head over to the forum and join in the discussion!