thebitterguy

I'm not a huge fan of the film, but still, it's nice to see ignorant film critics aren't limited to America.

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elissa-carey.livejournal.com

Wow. Obviously someone who had no idea what the movie was about even while watching it, or who never read PKD. I know it takes a little intelligence to follow the movie without a voiceover, but this isn't English Lit class. Jeez.

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That's nothing, you should read some of the bad reviews of "The Fountain."

Now, granted, it's a dense movie and not to everyone's taste, but I can sum up most of the bad reviews I read this way:

"OOOOOOhmigawd there's like totally this giant tree in space. That's so stupid! Anybody who puts a tree in space is like totally retarded."

Made my blood boil.

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New Flash! New Flash!

Anyone with spiky blonde hair and a scowl looks like Billy Idol!!

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Whereas my gripe with the movie was that it's story was melodramatic, paper-thin, and really didn't make a heck of a lot of sense. Now, pretty to look at, absolutely! Just not much substance beyond the prettiness.

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browncoat2x2

She also misquoted dialogue, if I'm not mistaken:

And the dialogue can get ridiculously melodramatic at times, like when one character comments of a replicant, "It's too bad he won't live? but then again, who does?"

I believe that should be SHE, thank-you! [/ comicbook guy's voice]

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You are not mistaken.

Man, she's really bad, isn't she?

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browncoat2x2

Quite.

She obviously had her pre-conceived judgements and didn't bother looking beyond that - what's that? be objective in a review? Boy, what a novel idea!

Reviews like this just reaffirm my dismissal of critics and their opinions in general. I don't need someone to tell me what to watch, especially not some main-stream 'normal' ;o)

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Reviews are pretty much subjective, by definition. But they also need to be well written. This is also not the case with this review.

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Wow... obviously at 0932, my caffeine had not fully settled into my system. How did I manage to leave out the 's' in News Flash, not once, but twice? Astounding.

I wish I were a paying member so I could edit my comment... 8)

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Well, I disagree, but you're more articulate than 90% of America's film critics.

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What did I say about damning with faint praise?

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I thought one of them had been cast as Barry Allen or something.

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So it's an overly broad category! It's still true!

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Ha! Seeing Wendy Williams as the Flash would be ... interesting... who would you cast as Iris?

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Well, she looks good with Lemmy.

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noondaypaisley.livejournal.com

What makes my blood boil most about this lame excuse for a review is how little she understands the things she's talking about. The POINT is that there are flying cars and ads for Atari. She's a film critic that doesn't understand symbolic metaphor, iconography, internal references, ironic distance, etc. I mean it's only basic film language afterall.

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