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To all those '1 time only reviewers' you don't count!!

posted 15 years ago by TheEmulator23
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I'm so sick of all those people that write "1" that's right ONE REVIEW ONLY, EVER!! Your reviews don't count. You can be interested in the subject matter or whatever, but that does not make this movie worthy of 7.3/10. C'mon, this film is done extremely poorly. There are parts interesting, (very few) but all those that have given this a 10/10 obviously don't care & are extremely interested in the subject matter or have some stake in the film. I would hope that those who read the overinflated absurdly positive reviews, would click on the the user name so that you can see that those people have probably signed up, written 1 review, & have never been back (here on IMDB) since. Those reviews are so misleading & I would hope that those interested don't count those reviews from people that give 10's or 1's because they don't count at all. It isn't a fair representation at all. To those that do this, (you'll never be back & never read this anyway so it makes absolutely no difference) don't bother polluting this site, because you are the cause for so many movies having such inflated scores. I don't care who you are, this film doesn't come anywhere near it's 7.3/10 score that it has right now.
!!!!!!!!BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!

[–] schwatime 15 years ago

Wow, a poster who's even crankier than I am!

If it makes you feel any better, I think the high rating is more about the subject matter than about the quality of the film. I'd say it's about average--or slightly below--as a documentary, and I think the majority of people would agree. What interests people most, I think, is that the topic is something most of us have some contact with, but isn't inherently all that interesting to us. And so we wanna know more about the trainspotting/Aspergerian narrow focus of the people who are so into it. And the maker of this film had the guts to try to carry it through.

I have two basic problems with the film. One is that I wasn't always sure whether someone onscreen was talking about Helvetica, typefaces in general, design of written material, or design in general. I'd rather the focus had been kept no wider than typefaces, and tried to give us better insight into the reasons typefaces fascinate some people: I don't want to know about how the hobby of trainspotting is practiced, for example, but I want to know what's going on in the minds of people who get so into it.

I also think that an opportunity was missed to use some cool graphical animation to demonstrate how the essence of one typeface differs from another. As I was watching the movie I'd periodically pause the computer I was watching it on and have a look at the fonts available to me on my system; one of the things I tried to do, since I have no Helvetica, was try to decide which was closest in spirit. In the end I came up with about half a dozen contenders, and while I could tell them apart from each other, I'm damned if I can think of any substantial difference between them.