Movie Reviews- Expert and User Reviews

               I read two reviews on the movie “Get On Up”, one from the New York Times and another from a user named “Holdjerhorses” via IMBD. Many factors separate these two reviews and in a more general sense, user reviews and critic reviews. By analyzing the purpose of both writers, I found that users generally write reviews when they really like or dislike the movie. For instance, the user written review of “Get on Up” really liked the movie and expressed that through his description of certain aspects of the film and his comparison to the movie “Jersey Boys” that was also recently released. The critic review has a broader spectrum of how much the reviewer enjoyed the film. Critics review movies for the job or for the love of film in general. The reviews they produce generally speak about the good and the bad and then a composite overall rating of the film as a whole, which is not as skewed to one end or the other like in most user reviews. I think that the user review did a great job of passing on the culture of the movie while addressing the average moviegoers. The writer used powerful description to address the moving sections of the film that caught his attention, which exemplified them for the people who in turn read his review of it. He went so far as to describe the tonsils of the actor to show that the actor was a good fit for the role of James Brown. This level of description allows the author to hold his readers interest whilst still addressing the cultural impact of the movie. Too much description will turn off the readers, such as in the New York Times review of the movie. The author talked about too many aspects of the movie with little elaboration and should have focused more on a few of those main aspects with greater elaboration.