MCDKS

MCDKS.
This is a simple acronym.
It is about the general condition of the movie industry.
It stands for.

Movie
Critics
Don't
Know
Shit

And there is a reason for that.
And the simple reason is that the term "Critically acclaimed" doesn't mean anything.

There are really only two kind of movies in Hollywood.
Movies that make money and movies that don't.

You see basically every major movie studio owns or owns allot of stock in a major entertainment magazine. And thus pays the paychecks of a small army of movie critics, and thus every Hollywood movie made in the last 40 years has been "Critically Acclaimed."

The term is also about the general feeling that nothing a critic dose effects how well a movie dose.
Case and point.
The 2nd and 3rd Transformer movies where almost universally reviled by critics, but both made ALLOT of money. And by comparison The Shawshank Redeption was pretty much a box office flop.

It's also important to note that the box office is not the end of a movies money making career.
There is rental money, distributions money, licencing and merchandise.

So very few movies actually lose money for there investors, but some come very close and or are really not worth making to be honest. And this goes back to the ideal of overrated movies. Or books or whatever.

Overrated allot of times has nothing to do with the overall quality of the product.