You've got to admire Harry Knowles...

[thebitterguy]

He hasn't allowed illiteracy to slow him down.

When I saw the online trailer - I have to admit, I was kinda hoping that Uwe might be able to achieve the camp fun of something like THE SWORD AND THE SORCEROR,but that was an under-financed fantasy flick with tons of blood and nudity - but something that seems beyond Uwe.

Okay, does that sentence make sense to anyone? Is nesting a thought within another thought that hard? Was TS&TS an under-financed fantasy flick with tons of blood and nudity, or is Bloodrayne? What is beyond Uwe? And why the hell is Knowles referring to a guy he's doing a hatchet job on by his first name?

Ah, I gotta clean the house.

Comments

[frabjousdave.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is that your example is not one of his worst sentences. At least he uses a spellchecker these days.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

More importantly, why are you even reading his reviews? He's a chump. (Harry. Though, Uwe is too, really.)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Clearly, Uwe did not deliver the required truckload of Belgian waffles to Harry's house. I thought he was forbidden to do bad reviews.

[thebitterguy]

I was directed here by jwz, which led me to AICN. I will have to punish them both for that.

[thebitterguy]

Thank God for Microsoft Word, or whatever he uses.

I saw him at SDCC several years ago. It took every fibre of my being to resist whipping him with a hardcover Strunk & White for an hour. "It's not that big a book! Put down your hentai for fifteen minutes and fucking READ IT!"

I'm no grammar nazi, but I crave a certain legibility in my online drivel.

[thebitterguy]

He should have sent him Schnitzel, because he is a nazi with nazi money.

[frabjousdave.livejournal.com]

If I were to meet him while I was in a snark, I'd keep it simple: "Sentences are nice. Won't you use them?"

[kinra.livejournal.com]

Bah. I enjoy his stuff. (Harry's, not Uwe's.) He's just a dude with a website and a bunch of friends in film. Works for him. And I know what he'll like and what he won't; it's like reading a columnist for a newspaper without an editor.

The intent of the sentence (particularly, having seen both The Sword and the Sorcerer, which I own, and the trailer for Uwe's unabashed LotR rip-off ostensibly based on Dungeon Siege) is relatively uncomplicated, to me. Uwe doesn't have the lighthearted touch Albert Pyun once did.

[thebitterguy]

You're so much kinder than I am. I am in a perpetual state of high snark.