Try to use spoiler alert. By the way, I see your reviews often. Is there any movie you have liked? Or just "review" the ones you don't Only?
No trolling, just curious. And please, again, there's a spoiler warning, use it? Cheers
@thiz Forgive me for the laziness of not using the spoiler alert code. There's really no excuse and I shall try harder in the future.
Thank you for taking the time to read my reviews! As far as liking films... I see a different film every day in the cinema and review each one. I find I usually 'like' (a 7/10 or higher) roughly 30% of the films I see, thus around 10/month. I usually only give an 8/10 once a month, and a 9/10 once or twice a year. A 10/10 is once every 5 years, or so. (I just don't feel that many PERFECT films are made.) So yes, I'm probably more critical than most.
Sorry for the delay in responding. I don't think Trakt sent me a notification about your comment or, if one was sent, it slipped between the virtual cracks of my inbox. 1000 apologies, I didn't mean to ignore you. :-)
@sp1ti Thanks for posting this! I didn't know it was possible to see my ratings sorted from highest to lowest. I was even able to make some adjustments with the benefit of hindsight (raised Revenge to a 9, lowered Death Race 2050 to an 8...). Also, I hadn't realised someone had replied to my comment, so thanks for bringing this to my attention! <3
@saint-pauly you know what's funny, on one of the photos of Margot starting school (I think it must have been high school) on the sign for the school, it says "home of the catfish"!
@littlegreycells Omg, I did not see that! I'm considering doing an extensive synopsis for 123wtf.me, and this is just the kind of fact I love to point out. Thank you!
@saint-pauly I just happened to notice it and my brain was obviously like "let's store this little nugget of info away for later in the film" haha!
@littlegreycells I found it! It's a photo of Margot with her dad on her first day of high school. Cool!
Shout by Saint PaulyBlockedParent2018-09-12T21:01:09Z— updated 2018-10-11T21:16:58Z
Like most PG-13 offerings, Searching is just emmental: full of holes, cheesy and too much will make you queasy. And it's not really gouda.
The movie's not a total waste, however. The found footage aspect (the film is entirely presented through screen activity on mobile phones, laptops, desktops...) is well done and the actors often hit their marks.
The film's major drawbacks, however, are the ending, which we know as soon as we see the film's MPAA rating (no matter how clever they think they are at trying to convince us otherwise) and the WTFs, like the police don't check a missing teen's text messages and no one has ever heard of catfishing .
Hey, if the film isn't going to give me any credit, I'm certainly not above doing the same.