Professional movie criticism is great and everything, but sometimes we just don't have the energy for complex analysis of themes, narrative techniques and cinematography.
That's where film buff Joe Grabinski's brilliant
Amazon Movie Reviews Twitter account comes in.
Started two years ago this month, Grabinski's page compiles the most hilariously bad reviews - good and bad - in one long feed, and it will force you to look at your favourite movies in a whole new light.
Take Stanley Kubrick's spine-chilling adaptation of Stephen King's
The Shining. By all accounts the film is a timeless masterpiece, but your average Amazon Movie Reviews critic is having none of it. A one-star verdict documented on the page dismissed the horror classic because of the unlikelihood that a hotel of that size would close for the winter season, given the popularity of skiing at that time if the year.
Titanic, which famously tells the
true story of the RMS Titanic sinking, was rubbished on Amazon Movie Reviews because 'this could never happen'.
You get the picture.
Some are furious, some misguided, some glowing and quite a few miss the point so spectacularly that they simply have to be a joke. Either way it's very entertaining.
Here are some of our favourite reviews that have appeared recently on the page. Prepare yourselves.
1. Magic Mike (2012)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/757971633537634305
We thought we saw his wand though.
2. The Godfather (1972)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/757668107255095296
It's important to put things in context.
3. Room (2015)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/756157128751009793
Matt is a man of action.
4. Spy Kids (2001)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/756519265407164417
Nothing gets past The Dog Wiggler.
5. Kung Fu Panda (2008)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/755432872203259904
Surprised they managed to reel you in.
6. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/753377768402857986
If only the movie press had been this easy to please.
7. Dora the Explorer (2014)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/751809254202368000
This is actually a good point.
8. A Bug's Life (1998)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/751120582507307008
We don't think they could have been much clearer.
9. Chicken Run (2000)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/749297709958389760
Bloody hell. That hit hit home didn't it?
10. Game of Thrones (ongoing, sadly not forever)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/746741436469514241
Consumer4220 is one of the most respected historical scholars in all of Westeros.
11. Pinocchio (1940)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/742387892677283841
How do we know he's telling the truth?
12. Waterworld (1995)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/739876245056290816
A healthy passion to have, Greg.
13. Space Jam (1996)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/734417103327879168
Not entirely incorrect, actually.
14. Zootopia (2016)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/733327332350386176
Nothing says 'sticking it to the man' like not seeing a kids' film because a group of women enjoyed it.
15. Alien (1979)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/730428997721460736
TOO VIOLENCE.
16. There Will Be Blood (2007)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/729778006554607616
Gotcha.
17. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/723904532573384705
Wait until you see the rest of his work.
18. Jaws (1975)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/712065879593226241
Not sure where Scott Parker got the time to watch all those shark explosions in between his 18 England caps.
19. Inside Out (2015)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/710900088835416069
We'd wager that you might well be the last, too.
20. Jurassic World (2015)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/706604003195383808
Agreed.
21. The Martian (2015)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/688146843625115648
It also
wasn't a fucking comedy.
22. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/692433979899707392
Literally the only bits of the film that weren't CGI'd.
23. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/674636422884667392
We've got nothing...