With the advent of the internet, people around the world prefer to read movie reviews online before going to a movie complex to watch it. There are several factors that can be attributed to this tendency.
Firstly, people have become a lot busier and cannot waste precious time on a movie they might not like. Hence, by reading a good review, they can come to a conclusion if it is worth to watch the movie on the silver screen or on television.
The second factor that drives the craze for professionally written reviews is that watching movies today on screen is a very costly affair. No one would appreciate a hundred dollars going down the drain for a pretty average movie. Imagine if you went with your whole family and spent a few hundred dollars on the movie, only to realize the movie is not even worth downloading and watching!
However, writing a review for a movie is no cake walk as readers have certain specifications they expect from a good movie review writer. To be a good movie review writer, firstly you need to be a movie buff; someone who can appreciate and criticize the movie without bias. The passion in the heart of the reviewer creates passion within the reader to watch the movie. A movie reviewer will also need to be careful, not to reveal the complete plot, but yet reveal enough so that intrigue is created in the reader to watch the movie. Also, being a movie reviewer would mean that, you need to be proficient with the technical aspects of movie making. Merely writing about the story and the performances is a very amateur methodology of writing a review.
Some movies are quite intense and demand immense attention while viewing them. A reviewer must be one who can watch movies of any genre with the same passion and criticize with bias. Many people falter in this respect, as they end up creating a review that has more personal opinions than universally acceptable opinions.
Finally, a good movie reviewer must be able to market himself in an appropriate manner. There are dime a dozen reviewers today, who would even cut copy and paste reviews of other writers, to make a farce review. Creating a niche for yourself and a good base of followers is the crux of movie review marketing. And once you have an adequate base of followers, getting associated with a popular website or publishing on your own website would be a simple thing only.
Remember the golden rule of movie reviewing; if you want more followers to read your reviews, you need to write articles that people would want to read over and over. Your review should generate ticket sales for the movie or save the customer from the agony of a terrible movie. Use your creativity and your passion to immerse the reader in the world of the movie.
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