tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41377214791522435852024-03-13T01:26:50.109-07:00The CriticriticWords get typed here.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-81838772638941589002016-02-16T14:28:00.000-08:002016-02-16T14:28:16.844-08:00Seven years later, this is still true.http://sticklebackplastic.blogspot.com/2009/04/something-must-be-done-about-sam.html
Low-quality reviews by this Sam Wollaston guy abound. He writes too much, and thinks too little. There's enough griping about him around the net to make anything I have to say redundant.
Wikipedians, please don't quote Mr. Wollaston in your articles.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-81160802114755158172016-02-05T09:18:00.001-08:002016-02-05T09:18:49.538-08:00There is no hopeThere is no such thing as "Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope" (1977).
Change the (1977) to a (1997) or a (2004), and maybe I will play along with calling it that. But you still won't catch me watching either of those...what should we call them...films?
As for the movie I loved when it was a kid, it was called "Star Wars". It had two sequels. These were popularly called "EmpireUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-29147119464037266342016-02-04T11:10:00.001-08:002016-02-04T11:10:50.824-08:00Addiction to plot does not make one literate.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-25364593198740475572015-09-10T15:26:00.001-07:002015-09-10T15:26:48.996-07:00This poor person. I wonder what the quotes around 'film reviewers' are supposed to mean.From the User Reviews on Metacritic for Disney's Monkey Kingdom:
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-20926160133032501462015-06-17T12:08:00.000-07:002015-06-17T12:08:00.867-07:00I support EFF because they fight for the users. Join me in celebrating their 25th anniversary! https://eff.org/eff25Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-13133673894449593012014-10-10T13:06:00.000-07:002014-10-10T13:06:06.598-07:00Amazon marketers caught again in public sexting.It's happening again. A hall of shame.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-43798543988915883532014-08-11T13:20:00.000-07:002014-08-11T13:20:31.416-07:00Amazon's Shocking Public Masturbation ScandalToday's Amazon landing page:
I am waiting to hear the news that the Amazon marketing department has been wound up and jailed on indecent exposure charges. CPS is sending a worker around to TheJennaBee's house to check up on just how much she loves her son. LinseFrank is going to have a working brain installed soon, with a "meme is not a thought" filter that should allow her Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-49389679745703253922014-05-23T11:25:00.000-07:002014-05-23T11:25:11.260-07:00Forum posters. First you are one, then you hate them all, and then you are one again. Here's Bob Odenkirk showing how posting Amazon reviews can make you feel better.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/09/one-star-amazon-reviews-make-me-feel-better.html
Thanks to the New Yorker for re-printing this great piece from Odenkirk & Cross's old web page.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-80170283490549962352013-11-08T11:34:00.000-08:002013-11-08T11:34:35.711-08:00
FOR THE CHILDREN
Dear
Grammys: I found that I am still able to research your history accurately using
the Internet. In fact, I found a famous embarassing moment. Please stop this. You are ruining the important work that other
media entities are doing towards breaking the Internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdNHS8b9C7I
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-90573967452314827182013-05-28T12:48:00.000-07:002013-05-28T12:48:11.155-07:00Here's a bit of television criticism worth reading:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/mister-rogers-neighborhood-greatest-tv-show-ever,91882/
Todd VanDerWerff, kudos to you.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-91688629738966139592012-06-15T16:13:00.000-07:002012-06-15T16:13:24.461-07:00Superb Work from HighDefDigestConsumer Reports has got it coming. I had almost forgiven them, but this excellent work has changed my mind.
http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/consumer-reports-tv-reviews/
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-69516339873541952372012-03-18T17:07:00.002-07:002012-03-18T17:30:40.859-07:00Why so long between posts?The hard part of writing is the part where you write.The premise of criticritic is entertaining to me personally. This site exists because I wanted such a site to exist. Looking around the world of professional media criticism, there is such an abundance of material that needs commentary, it seemed to be irresistible.However, it turns out that it's a bit of a drudge to plod through the mediocre Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-86510261397949119582012-03-08T09:59:00.001-08:002012-03-08T10:00:49.256-08:00Your. Marketing. Sucks.Advertisers. Please. Stop.It's. Totally. Played.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-7183319693100803102012-01-05T15:59:00.001-08:002012-01-05T15:59:41.642-08:00I will blog again.Because you demanded it. I don't know why you demanded it, but you did.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-44921581733852384892009-09-06T18:40:00.000-07:002009-09-06T18:49:06.290-07:00Parse this sentence:"Is there anyone alive who hasn't seen All About Eve -- anyone who doesn't love movies, that is?"That's Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle, quoted on the Netflix "Critics" tab for All About Eve.So, is there anyone alive who doesn't love movies? The answer: Yes.Out of all of these non-movie lovers, how many of them haven't seen All About Eve?Pretty much all of them, I think.Yes, EdwardUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-51266804288927847052008-12-09T12:21:00.001-08:002008-12-23T14:51:43.787-08:00Australia. Let's not call it "Oz" anymore.Hugh Jackman is People's new Sexiest Man Alive, and apparently it's got something to do with him appearing in a storm of epic mediocrity called Australia. As usual, Metacritic's employees felt obligated to retain their jobs by "aggregating" reviews. Let's line 'em up and knock 'em down.At the top of the lineup, Cammila Albertson of TV Guide embarrasses herself by typing: "Australia goes for the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-11645231614380917162008-12-02T01:54:00.001-08:002008-12-02T08:10:18.510-08:00According to Metacritic, the Top Five Films of All TimeSo, one of the GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME came out this year.The number two greatest film of all time: Superman II.I don't think the guys at Metacritic will be entering the Netflix million dollar contest anytime soon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-65774094889702441962008-12-01T08:12:00.000-08:002008-12-01T08:19:26.141-08:00Another reason Metacritic is UselessTell me you haven't experienced this. It's not that it's an old DVD. It just came out on Blu-ray. I know it's been reviewed. More later. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-72945473657983455022008-11-30T11:41:00.000-08:002008-11-30T12:33:06.818-08:00Stephen Bond says "Ender's Game" is pornography!Here's an entertaining, overlong review of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I haven't read Ender's Game, although many of my science fiction-loving friends have encouraged me to do so.The reviewer Stephen Bond thinks that because this novel encourages its readers to persist in their immature notions of the way the world should work, it's pornography. Following this logic, anything Robert Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-8367818686731217152008-11-23T18:01:00.000-08:002008-11-23T18:09:57.893-08:00Clive Thompson Dives Into the Netflix ProblemThe New York Times published a nice little piece on mathematicians and computer programmers who've taken on the $1 million Netflix challenge.Personally, I think the million dollars Netflix is offering is chump change compared to what they'd get out of it. Those who've taken up the challenge have been caught up by the magpie effect that business owners have used to exploit puzzle-solvers for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-56448102671276488832008-11-14T13:41:00.001-08:002008-11-14T19:00:59.949-08:00High School Musical 3: Senior YearOh, the High School Musical series. Someday, I'll consider watching one of these, but then I'll think better of it, and maybe make a sandwich and play a little Tetris. Of course, if some newspaper or TV show was going to pay me to watch it and write about it, I'd be all over that action with neither a bitch nor a moan. Let's see if the folks who do get paid to do it did their jobs.Here's what Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-64065542274417128022008-11-14T01:31:00.000-08:002008-11-14T01:55:36.844-08:00Marc Savlov's QuantumOh...wait...now I get it! Simon Templar.Yeah, Marc...nobody got that reference. At least, not on Metacritic.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137721479152243585.post-870661857717622262008-11-13T18:21:00.000-08:002008-11-14T02:29:44.124-08:00A Quantum of Solace...for you!Ah, Metacritic...you make it too easy. Here's my infinitessimally small commentary on the criticism of the new Bond:James Jung from Premiere vaporware magazine: "Quantum, thanks to a deft blend of exotic escapism and bare-bones modernism, is more than strong enough to be judged on its own. In fact, it's the perfect Bond film."Jung, in a deft blend of two juxtaposing statements, asks us to believeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com