I gave an honest review. Why do people feel so hesitant to give constructive feedback instead of praising just for the sake of it?
Perhaps no-one was feeling hesitant? Perhaps they were expressing themselves according to the way they experienced it? As did you? I do not believe that all people think alike in any of these matters.
For myself I have many criteria that guides my own experience of any entertainment. Most often is the way it makes me think... or feel. To lots of people the criteria I use is not appealing. We think differently. Some people prefer the technical, or a film matching up to their own preferences/standards in any number of other ways. Which sometimes appeals to me too. But not necessarily.
My honest review would be from my own personal POV anyway, as is everyone's. But I am rarely-to-never interested in 'reviewing' film, art, literature, etc. as in "a formal assessment or examination of something with the possibility or intention of instituting change if necessary." Critical feedback.
Not my cup of tea as it were. Or maybe I just come at it from a different angle... basically I share my personal responses to a film rather than my observations a film's correctness/successes or failures in lining up to what 'I' think it should have or could have been. Which I often find are two completely separate things to me anyway.
What I mean is it is not uncommon for me to fail to enjoy a wonderfully crafted film with wonderfully acted characters because it doesn't suit me in some way. It is also not uncommon for me to greatly enjoy a wonderfully crafted film with wonderfully acted characters because it 'does' suit me in some way. And vice versa with even the poorest crafted & acted. Many I may fail to enjoy, many I may enjoy greatly. My response to any film one way or the other for any reason that suits me is all I can really speak to as a passive viewer. And realizing it is a rarity that two people experience any film with exactly the same responses I also find I very much enjoy listening to other people's experiences too... even if or when their own experiences are completely opposite to my own.
So what I will write here will express my own honest experience while watching this film:
I enjoyed it.
I admired and enjoyed the story line. It was unexpected.
I enjoyed the simplicity of the film combined with its more complicated backstory subtext not being fully spelled out for me.
I enjoyed the way the actors presented their characters.
I enjoyed the editing.
I admired and enjoyed the practical sets
I enjoyed the outdoor scenes
I admired and enjoyed the cgi parts
I admired the work I recognized was put into making the actual film; the production of it. I know much of the challenges in film making so I often watch with an eye to the behind the camera goings on too.
I also found myself envying all those who were involved in the actual making of it. I've been in that position with larger films and have loved every hard working sometimes bone tiring sometimes frustrating moment of it.
