11-10-2014, 01:05 PM
...where it's all about ball bustin.
Truth be told, I find movie criticism to be the lowest form of journalism, right down there with restaurant reviews. There's this long process where you have to do this dance with your reviews - say nice things to appease the pr firms or you won't get invited back. You gotta pay your dues. It takes some time before you can gain enough reputation to really trash a film when it sucks. Either that, or you have to be with a major reporting agency, but then, if you've gotten that far, you've already paid your dues. I toyed with doing some side reviews for the local new rags, just to get into more screeners - NOT martial arts films - but it seemed like too much work in the end. I get so many wannabe freelancers who want to do reviews and most of them are so transparently weak. It's like "I'm too lame to be able to write about anything but my stupid opinions on someone else's work."
Even more truth be told, the field of movie criticism was wrecked - WRECKED - by Joe Bob Briggs. I even poach his 'fu' formula here on DOOM because it was so stupendously awesome.
Truth be told, I find movie criticism to be the lowest form of journalism, right down there with restaurant reviews. There's this long process where you have to do this dance with your reviews - say nice things to appease the pr firms or you won't get invited back. You gotta pay your dues. It takes some time before you can gain enough reputation to really trash a film when it sucks. Either that, or you have to be with a major reporting agency, but then, if you've gotten that far, you've already paid your dues. I toyed with doing some side reviews for the local new rags, just to get into more screeners - NOT martial arts films - but it seemed like too much work in the end. I get so many wannabe freelancers who want to do reviews and most of them are so transparently weak. It's like "I'm too lame to be able to write about anything but my stupid opinions on someone else's work."
Even more truth be told, the field of movie criticism was wrecked - WRECKED - by Joe Bob Briggs. I even poach his 'fu' formula here on DOOM because it was so stupendously awesome.
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