A feast for the pseudo-enlightened?

Rating: Null/10 (18 January 2004)

The weird dichotomy of reviews here seem to indicate a growing rift between film experts and we dull-minded amateurs. After all, the consensus among film critics and students seems to be that 'Lost' is a masterpiece, but the rest of us either 1) fell asleep, or 2) stayed awake by struggling to figure out the point. In fact, only a handful of the 300+ reviews here say it's just an average movie (the ruling IMDB elite say "Oscar-worthy" and the mindless masses say "booooring"; few fall in or near the middle).
So what? So we read the reviews and expected something uniquely brilliant, forged by a legacy of cinematic greatness. So we were let down and misled.
I really get the feeling - and I'll just say this and shut up already - that the initial round of glorious reviews were hatched from a tiny elitist minority who, like us, struggled unsuccessfully to grasp the point but, unlike us, didn't have the courage to admit it. So instead they glossed over the missing plot and hailed the movie as something high-minded and profound, the vision of a beloved director (whose name they dare not condemn). And so then the oracle was passed to the indie squires that they too would praise this snoozer, lest they too expose their wretched lack of artistic sensibility.
Here's to the brave folks who dared set the record straight on this one. Damn the charlatans! (grins)