Reviews

This is my second attempt to watch this film after 13 years and I failed again to complete watching it. At the first time, I thought maybe I wasn't in the right mood and I couldn't get into it enough. But this time I realized that the director's choice for using a sinister, disturbing film scoring (music) going on ALL THE TIME no matter what is happening on the screen kills it for me. This is something that happens with cheap TV films or amateur student shorts, a veeery wrong use of scoring. Of course, since this is a big movie with enough budget, the scoring and the recording and mixing is brilliant. So, it's not about the music or the composer but the director's choice.

I get that most people don't even notice this kind of thing and enjoy the film but I couldn't help it. Maybe it's because I'm a musician.

Undoubtedly Daniel Day-Lewis is an incredible actor and he acts brilliantly in this film too.

I'm not giving spoilers. This is just a warning if you, like me, can predict a very predictable ending. Duh, this movie screams its ending from its start.

I started to watch the movie and right on the start when the daughter said "Don't hurt me daddy" I guessed the ending. Then I paused and came here in disappointment to check the user reviews if I'm right and thanks to the idiot who wrote a review as "I was wrong, then I was wrong again. Good twist.", I thought that the movie will advance in an unpredictable direction and chose to continue! Man, you were not wrong, it's just that you have lower-than-average iq or you're paid to drop a good review for this p.o.s. movie!

Don't waste your time, we have seen this a million times. Besides, the movie is depressing. A real bad way to spend 2 hours.

I'm a music professional and 90% of films about music makes me frustrated because of their totally false and misleading details about music. I'm leaving this film by its 40th minute after watching the scene where Bradley Cooper surprises Gaga on his gig by starting to play her song with a perfect arrangement and they performed it together perfectly... He hears this song only one time by her a capella singing while they were drunk as hell after a crazy night and the next day he arranges it on the rehearsal of his gig! Thanks to this film I have learned what an easy job I have! I don't know why me and all the other music producers in the world are spending months in studios to make records! After all it only takes like 12 hours to make such a perfect hit!

Dramatisation has to have limits. We live in an ignorant world, don't make it worse.

Where am I? What am I doing here? The last thing I remember is that I started to watch a random film on netflix thinking "How bad can it be?" and I woke up lying on the floor slobbering... The movie was battle... battle-something... Anyway, I'm going to enlist.

Excuse me, what was that? I don't get it, can you please do another remake? I'm begging you. That's all because you've changed ONE OR TWO minor details whereas you should've done EXACTLY the same... Next time please don't change anything. We're idiots, remember? After all you don't need to be creative for making people watch this. I mean why bother, right? But for the next time, please edit Uncle Ben's death scene twice. I need to see it at least one more time over the first one. In fact three times would be much better, because I didn't get it after all the times that I've seen it on the comic books, the animations and the other series. Man, I don't get it! What was his aunt's name again? What was he bitten by? Was it a snake? Duh it should be, it's snake-man after all! What do you think I'm stupid? Huh! But you do another one of the same in any case! Rain or shine!

IMDb ratings are useful but OF COURSE, if you know how to read them!

First of all, viewers who allow their time to sign up and rate the movies must be considered as above average viewer. Therefore ratings on IMDb have a certain value. But still, the population of IMDb includes a dispersion and you should understand how people tend to rate based on this fact.

1) Big productions with an original script (or a revolutionary technique as SC cam as in Avatar) and a topnotch cast would go up to IMDb's Top list and they would probably deserve it. Look at that list and in general you'll see the master pieces of the cinema history.

2) Big productions with a well-crafted script and a good cast would definitely have a rating above 7 from numerous users like 50000 people or something like that. According to your taste of genre, you won't be disappointed by these films most of the time.

3) An indie film with a low budget, a good or an original (or as it seems that way at the first look) script and an unknown cast would have a rating above 7 from a comparatively lower number of users like 20000 or so.

This 3rd case is the tricky one. If your time is valuable, you should take some time to read some reviews and make up your mind. Because in cases like these (like The Man From Earth here) when average educated people with an average intelligence see this kind of film THEY THINK that they're so intellectual and special and THEY FEEL like they're above the rest of the human kind and THEY ARE the first and the only ones who understand the false concept of things like religion and stuff, THEY GIVE a 9 or 10 to a poorly made movie with a poorly written script and awful acting!!!

Be aware!

For this movie my rating is 5. And that is for the nice effort on a low budget and the success on reaching so many people. I should give 1 to compensate the over-raters though!