Lock Me Up! - Red Flag Netflix Rant of the Week

"When a film this good gets panned so badly, you have to wonder what made the critics sulk. This time, the critics have opened their trench coats to expose their hypocrisies! Critics, like paparazzi, are parasites: few of them have ever created anything; instead, they live off the inspiration of others. What novel, what movie, what play has not been torn apart by at least some critics? Think of greats like Dickens, Hemingway, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock…Some critic somewhere belittled their visions and their creations. The Hollywood/New York critics and the paparazzi walk hand and hand, so perhaps they feel protective of each other. Suddenly, a film that is well acted, written, and directed, is demonized. Suddenly, in this age of senselessly violent movies that get called "artistic," "bold," etc., a movie in which parasitic photographers get what's coming to them is persecuted for not living up to the old Hayes Code standard of crime not paying and murderers always being brought to justice. This movie is funny, exciting, and satisfying, and there is very little graphic violence. How could it receive 1 or even 0 stars unless the critic is angry about the spotlight being swung in his or her direction? How dare a Hollywood insider, like Mr. Gibson, laughingly throw a little sand in the out of control publicity machine? Hmmm?" ("Paparazzi")