No.  Similar situation?

Sounds right. 

Find reviewers you agree with and read their reviews.  Conversely, pick a couple of reviewers you think are morons, and read them too.  Saves time and money.

I went to see Raiders of the Lost Ark after reading Vincent Canby's review.  My first big special effects movie, and my god, I couldn't believe what they could do. 
I think it took Titanic to put me off paying to see movies.  Even at the dollar theatre, I felt like it had cost too much.

I think it was Anthony Lane of The New Yorker who wrote a negative review of Titanic, and after its great success, went to see it again and wrote an even more negative review.  And he was still too kind as far as I'm concerned.

I did that once at Walmart.  I went in to buy a wrench, probably for an oil change, and then decided to pick up a few other things while I was there.  I was in hardware and had no shopping cart, and by the time I got to the registers in the front of the store, my arms were so full that I literally couldn't carry…

There's a British cop show set in Italy.  It stars Rufus Sewell and a mixed group of British and Italian actors, and the accents are all over the place.  I've never seen anything like it.  It's so distracting that I found it impossible to watch.

Blame that on their composition teachers in college or maybe high school.  One of the prime tenets of criticism is that it doesn't mean going on about what's wrong with something alone and that your standards of judging have to be both apt and fair. 
You'd be surprised at how many students, for example, can't believe…

Saying he's wrong  because you disagree with him?  Why not just say you disagree with his analysis?

I look forward to Anthony Lane's reviews.  He's funny, intelligent, and well-informed.
I prefer his reviews to (sorry) any I've read here by anyone, with the exception of Rabin's My Year of Flops reviews.

There is only the Louis Prima version.  

Is there a part for Frankie Boyle?

I stepped in some, Texas winter so chilly but not very cold at the time.  Still, I had to step out of my rubber boots and walk to hard ground, through the wet sand, carrying my boots (lovely sucking sound when I pulled them free), then walk all the way back to my truck, in cold soggy socks, over otherwise quite hard…

Colonel, you sound like Dave Podmore.

Different from, to be pedantic.  Difference is contrast and requires "from" to be correct.  Comparison is likeness and requires "than."
As you were.

Looking for inspiration is one thing.  Using the name of the older work and pretending the new work is an adaptation is another.
I've watched a lot of Jane Austen adaptations and I keep asking the same question—don't these people know that Austen was funny?

I couldn't agree more.  One of my pet annoyances is "improved" Agatha Christie. 
Geez, Hercule Poirot carrying around a rosary and getting all religious.  Doesn't bear consideration.

You could even try the Sabu version from whatever year it was.

For me, it's the "later that night, when the lights went out of sight, came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."  The finality of it.

You've lost another submarine?