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projectionbooth.blogspot.com - 5/16/2008

Bad Journalism: Pet Peeves of a Film Critic (and Other Cinematic Thoughts)

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The results of it can be seen in the recent slaughtering of Speed Racer by the likes of a majority vote at Rotten Tomatoes (and many others aside), while the start of it, I think, can be seen in the kind of slandering going on right now at The House Next Door as regards the recently announced remake of Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant , directed by Werner Herzog (!) and starring Nicholas Cage ...

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Links for the Day (May 16th, 2008)
The House Next Door — ... 4. "Bad Journalism: Pet Peeves of a Film Critic (and Other Cinematic Thoughts)" : By House contributor Rob Humanick, for his site The Projection Booth . [ "Whether inhabited by movie hounds or the public at large, the Web - seeping into every aspect of our lives, already something of a chord-less Matrix (do I smell a Cronenberg movie?) - seems a ripe place for popular opinion to fester, spawn, and consume, a fascist presence that finds sustenance in its own existence. I can hardly glance at those message boards without feeling the death of free thought, and as someone who ...

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The Long Take — ... This was the thought on my mind when I was reading Rob Humanick's great essay on Bad Journalism, which loathes the public lynching of certain movies for seemingly no apparent reason - save for one which is called 'because everybody else seems to hate it'; yet most of the time this is something more subliminal than spoken out. The major torchbearers to this movement are paid critics like Stephanie Zacharek herself, who, despite being great at what they do, frequently disappoint me with their aims to intimidate the tastes of their opposers using elaborate sentences and ...