This definitely isn't as bad as a 3/10 as IMDB users rated it. People either just love something or hate something (although I think they can like stuff more than others). I guess some people just hated this, but I blame the writers.
For example, the big bean bag was a cool idea, but it shouldn't have wasted a whole minute of screen time. That should've been like the end to a scene, or something like that (in my opinion).
The writers did a good job on the story they actually wrote, however, like when they make sure the audience knows the voice isn't actually meant to be James Cordon himself.
However, with that said, I just think the scenes weren't that funny or entertaining. I love the idea and concept of the movie, and love Melissa McCarthy, but sometimes I just felt like doing something else other than watching the movie, and in my opinion, movies should NEVER be like that. Every scene should capture you and grab you, and make you not want to go and do that huge ass pile of work I have sitting around, and this movie had me thinking about that big pile of work still somewhat. I feel like simple benchmarks like this can really tell studios if movies are likeable or not, but these benchmarks need to be tested across large groups of people. I guess this is what they're doing with machine learning (like at Netflix, for their recommendation engine), but I feel like they're measuring the wrong benchmarks. Whether or not I want to watch a movie instead of work or play games says a lot, though, and this had me thinking of going to do both of those things. I know this is a very basic system of measurement, but it hasn't failed me yet. I recommend movies to people all the time and are the guy everyone asks what to watch, so I think I have good instinct in this area.
I also wanted to say that while it wasn't very entertaining, it was very well made, and is of very high quality.
I feel it's worth a watch regardless, but the ratings speak for themselves.
For example, the big bean bag was a cool idea, but it shouldn't have wasted a whole minute of screen time. That should've been like the end to a scene, or something like that (in my opinion).
The writers did a good job on the story they actually wrote, however, like when they make sure the audience knows the voice isn't actually meant to be James Cordon himself.
However, with that said, I just think the scenes weren't that funny or entertaining. I love the idea and concept of the movie, and love Melissa McCarthy, but sometimes I just felt like doing something else other than watching the movie, and in my opinion, movies should NEVER be like that. Every scene should capture you and grab you, and make you not want to go and do that huge ass pile of work I have sitting around, and this movie had me thinking about that big pile of work still somewhat. I feel like simple benchmarks like this can really tell studios if movies are likeable or not, but these benchmarks need to be tested across large groups of people. I guess this is what they're doing with machine learning (like at Netflix, for their recommendation engine), but I feel like they're measuring the wrong benchmarks. Whether or not I want to watch a movie instead of work or play games says a lot, though, and this had me thinking of going to do both of those things. I know this is a very basic system of measurement, but it hasn't failed me yet. I recommend movies to people all the time and are the guy everyone asks what to watch, so I think I have good instinct in this area.
I also wanted to say that while it wasn't very entertaining, it was very well made, and is of very high quality.
I feel it's worth a watch regardless, but the ratings speak for themselves.