to not understand the hate for indecent proposal

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I saw it again last night and I googled it after to see that the critical reviews were terrible and it got 7 rassy awards noms and won of them.

AIBU to think it is a pretty decent film that makes one think would we cheat on a partner for money and how whether money can trump love etc?

I genuinely didn't see why the critics bashed it so badly but am I missing something?

It’s fine. Not my favourite but definetly not bad and a good memorable premise.
Sometimes there will be a perfectly fine movie that maybe isn’t perfect and one or two critics will decide to be a total bitch about it (or genuinely hate it) and the rest kind of just jump on the bandwagon.

Critics are very prone to peer pressure, many reviews are similar and the reality is there’s only a handful of critics who watch movies cold and just give their own impressions. It’s like the art or fashion world, critics (especially then) are very caught up in thinking like other critics and ageeeing with them over what is and isn’t good - after all if they don’t have similar highbrow tastes then what separates them in their minds from the average pleb talking about some movie?

It’s full of misogynistic nonsense.

It's not cheating if your husband wants you to, is it?

It was fashionable, for a while in the 90s, to sneer at pretty much anything Demi Moore did.

*Sometimes there will be a perfectly fine movie that maybe isn’t perfect and one or two critics will decide to be a total bitch about it (or genuinely hate it) and the rest kind of just jump on the bandwagon.

Critics are very prone to peer pressure, many reviews are similar and the reality is there’s only a handful of critics who watch movies cold and just give their own impressions. It’s like the art or fashion world, critics (especially then) are very caught up in thinking like other critics and ageeeing with them over what is and isn’t good - after all if they don’t have similar highbrow tastes then what separates them in their minds from the average pleb talking about some movie*

So true and I suspect this is why Titanic got such overinflated reviews on its release.