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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
"Ken Tucker is also a film critic for New York magazine." I'm not saying that you cannot be a music critic and a film critic - I'm just saying it make me suspicious. Jack of all trades and what have you.
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The only worthwhile film criticism would be on the order of "This movie sucks. Don't go. There's too much violence, and meaningless nudity. Or go, if you like that."
That is, sum up in less than 20 words. Instead you get a whole page. For popular movies the reviews are really dumb, especially when they start comparing to other movies..."This movie is bad, not as bad as ACTOR'S last movie, which was horrible."
Excuse me. Problem.
People read the review to decide to go to the movie in the first place, so if I had listened to the review of the last movie I wouldn't get the reference point as I wouldn't have seen the last movie.
For small films its even worse. Plot twists-surprises etc.? The review gives them all away. So you read the review before you see the movie and it ruins the movie. Read the review after and the nit-picking still ruins the movie. "The ___ scene was dumb, the ___ character was needless filler etc." Maybe they're right, but there have been a few movies that were perfect. You can nitpick them all. I just want to enjoy it, must this analysis be shoved in my face?
In sum, reviews are useless to decide if you should see a movie, damaging if read before seeing a movie, and harmful even if not read until after seeing the movie.
Music critic? Does anyone really read that crap? A review of a rock CD is the biggest wank I can imagine. How can people write that crap?
