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Slagging off the good reviews


Is there any particular reason why bad reviews of "Victor Vargas" have been rated as "useful," and good reviews have been rated as "not useful" and pushed to the bottom of the list?

Is there a cadre of people somewhere that gets perverse joy out of bombing this movie, or what? What's wrong with it, then, lads? Too deep for y'all?

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I lot of people really hated this movie, and I think it's because they're film students, or filmmakers themselves, and they've failed to get anything produced.

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Wow! It can't possibly be because it's a bad movie and they didn't like it...

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yes, someone tries to change the opinion of the people who rate this movie and look in the comments sections before rating. it's obvious that the good ratings of the movie and the mostly good board entries mysteriously differ from the "1 out of 10" comments. whoever reads this, don't let yourselves be influenced by trolls and give your honest rating.

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i personall y thought this movie really good
i live and i grew up in NY and it reminds me
of when i was growing up
its really authentic
and it has its tear jerker moments!

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Because the movie is pretty pointless and there's nothing deep to 'get' in any way. Besides, how weight-ist is everyone in the movie? Just because the girl he was shagging was 'fat' everyone in the movie slags her off like the world's coming to an end. She might be a nice person not that any of these shallow, insincere characters would know. So he tries for a 'hot' girl to restore his reputation. How deep. But wait there's more! His sister, living through him a little and with no love in her own life, starts to date a new guy herself! Wow. My life will never be the same again.

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I think when the movie started out, it was trying to depict the characters as superficial and shallow. But you discover as the movie progresses that there's a lot more to them. You're just describing the beginning scenes.

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Because the movie is pretty pointless and there's nothing deep to 'get' in any way.... Just because the girl he was shagging was 'fat' everyone in the movie slags her off like the world's coming to an end. She might be a nice person not that any of these shallow, insincere characters would know.



Are you suggesting that teenagers in "real life" are not shallow or insincere? If not, then I fail to see how realism degrades the film in any way - the film is based on realism... and if yes, well you had one lucky social environment to grow up in.
Remember that we're watching poor, young minority groups of teenagers trying to interact in a poor, possibly ghetto-like area, so unless you happened to grow up in an area like such, or researched the matter deeply, you have no ability to judge how real these characters are.

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It is hard for me to like a movie when none of the characters develop and become likeable *from at least one aspect*, or at least learn about their immature prejudgices to some extent. They can start off shallow but they didn't even get better or get to know the person. In 'real life' there are plenty of scum but there are also plenty of people like you and me who wouldn't be so darn judgmental, but yes I'm not even American yet alone from a 'minority ghetto' so maybe they're all shallow and judgmental there, I dunno. I wonder how these same shallow latino characters would react if they saw a 'white guy' so utterly embarrassed about being seen with a Mexican girl... not nicely I'm guessing. Pot. Kettle. Hypocrites. (not you, but Victor etc)

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This movie was really touching.

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Haven't watched the movie yet, just bought it 2dy. But the first review from someone at the site says 1* out of 10*!!! Of course it`s not useful! That says nothing to me, rien, nada.

Maybe is a bad movie, as usually many UssA films are, but c'mon...!?!?!
I don't believe in 1's or 10's ratings. Nobody believes. Even when I say 10* is just sentimental s4i7.

Sorry kids, that`s my dos centimos.

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