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Group: rec.arts.animation · Group Profile
Author: FlasherlyFlasherly Date: Dec 27, 2007 16:52
On Dec 27, 6:52 pm, Terrence Briggs gmail.com> wrote:> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/12/07/DI...
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> Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Stephen Hunter recently berated the
> "insidious influence" of Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic on the
> critical establishment. From a december 21 online chat:
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> Washington, D.C.: Having just seen "No Country for Old Men," I was
> suprised to find it no more than a polished potboiler. Yet it's making
> many best-of-year lists, sometimes at the top. You were one of the
> very few critics not to join the hosannahs. What do you think accounts
> for the over-the-top reaction to it on the part of so many others?
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> Stephen Hunter: I would subtract the word "polished" from your
> assessment, but otherwise I agree. As for why the crits went nuts over
> it, I can only make a contribution in one little area (eschewing
> conspiracy theories which I don't believe in) One insidious influence
> on criticism that, as far as I know, hasn't been mentioned anywhere is
> the arrival of critic collection and analysis websites, like
> Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes. So whereas before, critics' takes were
> never gathered; to find out a consensus, you had to go to each
> website, a lot of work. Now in two or three keystrokes it's all there,
> calibrated, and nobody, I'm guessing, really wants to be in the 2 per
> cent who is out of consensus. So there's an unconscious pressure for
> confomity, particularly when movies get advance raves (as did "No
> Country" on the non-Ebert Ebert show). And thus a very few movies
> benefit extraordinarily from the pre-release spin. Does that make
> sense to anybody?
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Not in the least, Mr. Critic. First off in speaking solely for (as
opposed to against or within any affiliation for) Metacritic,
Metacricitc approaches movies as statistical abstract from a consensus
reception both of viewers and industry critic publications. A two-
cent consensus of allusion is precisely a part in keeping graphs
illustrative of Metacritic rankings from being other than a "polished
outlook," honest and fair in depicting inculcations both positive, and
negative, from representative viewpoints for any sizable review in
question. Although I wouldn't detract from some sense it does make,
seemingly, to factor mass appeal, it would generally have to be within
skewed aberrations, non-qualitative in a sense, or a suitable
representation of samples significant within quantification. What
most believe about the one-two-three keystroke theory nowadays, is
preferable to a critical shift upon part of industry and what was
written on VCR boxes I once rented in the grocery store. What was to
become as difficult to discern among intelligible meaning, or lack
thereof, as a hooker's come-on (forgive me if I profess to having lost
interest more than once when espying some skimpily-clad thing or
another, to the best of my recollection, ostensibly while reading a
couple or more so-called critical acclaims adjacently poised so
eminently approachable).
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