avclub.com - 8/4/2009
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There was a time, not too long ago, when pretty much every studio film was screened for critics days, weeks or even months before their release. In those days not screening a film for critics was a tacit admission of a film’s crappiness.
That was then, this is now. Professional film critics ...
google.com - 8/4/2009
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google.com —
2 hours ago LOS ANGELES It's the biggest
movie of the summer that practically no one has...
seen. "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" opens Friday, but Paramount Pictures isn't screening the blockbuster for critics beforehand. Only a select few writers from ...
The Associated Press: No go: Paramount won't show ...
huffingtonpost.com - 8/4/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
LOS ANGELES — It's the biggest movie of
the summer that practically no one has seen. "G.I....
Joe: The Rise of Cobra" opens Friday, but Paramount Pictures isn't screening the blockbuster for critics beforehand. Only a select few writers from ...
How Bad Is It? Paramount Won't Show Critics 'G.I. Joe'
seriouslyomg.com - 8/4/2009
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seriouslyomg.com —
How bad is G.I. Joe: Rise of the
Cobra? Well Paramount has decided not to show the...
movies to critics before it is released on Friday. Traditionally there are two reasons why a studio doesn’t screen the movie to critics…1. ...
How bad is G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra?
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G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra Says Not Being Screened for Critics Is Half the Battle
Topless Robot —
... Maybe Rise of Cobra will be awesome, but right now, there's no reason to suspect this. And now that Paramount has officially announced that the film will not be screened for critics, there's even less reason to think otherwise. Nor is there any reason to think Paramount gives a shit what any of us think. Let me let the AV Club sum it up: ...
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... AV Club weighs in on the probably crappy GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra's decision to skip the usual screenings for critics. Nevertheless some critics in the fanboy community have seen it / like it. I wonder what will happen to film criticism in the long run now that the critical community is going to be even less diverse than it already was. Doesn't it seem like most people writing about movies these days are of the genre-loving geek variety? Nothing wrong with being a genre-loving geek but it doesn't seem like that makes for a good representative pool for ...
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