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trinityvixenLook out, world. The sky is falling: Manohla Dargis liked a movie!
And you'll never believe which one! Or, well, you might, if you hover over the hyperlink. I'm going to put the answer behind a cut-tag anyway.
Snakes on a Plane!
Manohla Dargis (whose first name causes me to misplace the 'h' more times than I used to do in middle school with Gandhi) hates movies, I'm absolutely convinced. He/she/it has yet to review a movie that is anything more than a handful of people will ever see with more than middling (and always damning) praise. I get the feeling that MD is like Dr. Thorpe on SomethingAwful who likes only really super eclectic music but is versed in music lore and technical creation such that he's an expert in music and therefore hates everything. MD is like that. He/she got a degree in cinema and journalism but decided that gave him/her license to vent about how everything that isn't this one slice of movie genre is terrible, awful, and people are stupid for liking it.
He/she will poo-poo anything that looks like it cost more than a Wendy's frostie to make. If you laughed at it, your humor will be deemed sophmoric, dated, and dreadful. If it moved you to tears, MD will be in the corner yawning and posting his/her article about how hammy the performances are and how obvious an attempt to pull on the heartstrings it was. If the effects were ground-breaking, MD will roll his/her eyes and talk about how many hours of green-screen that must have taken and then wax poetic on which actors in the film might have benefited from being animated themselves.
And, yet, MD liked Snakes on a Plane. With less damning praise than just about anything else I've ever read reviewed by MD. Admits it's a B-movie that's content to live and love at that level. Admits that the gross-outs and snake-bites are programmed to push buttons so the entire audience is squicked out. Accuses everyone else in the world of being shills for having gotten excited about the movie. Still gives it a fairly glowing review. And not just a good review for MD--an actually good review!
Short version: THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!!!
And you'll never believe which one! Or, well, you might, if you hover over the hyperlink. I'm going to put the answer behind a cut-tag anyway.
Snakes on a Plane!
Manohla Dargis (whose first name causes me to misplace the 'h' more times than I used to do in middle school with Gandhi) hates movies, I'm absolutely convinced. He/she/it has yet to review a movie that is anything more than a handful of people will ever see with more than middling (and always damning) praise. I get the feeling that MD is like Dr. Thorpe on SomethingAwful who likes only really super eclectic music but is versed in music lore and technical creation such that he's an expert in music and therefore hates everything. MD is like that. He/she got a degree in cinema and journalism but decided that gave him/her license to vent about how everything that isn't this one slice of movie genre is terrible, awful, and people are stupid for liking it.
He/she will poo-poo anything that looks like it cost more than a Wendy's frostie to make. If you laughed at it, your humor will be deemed sophmoric, dated, and dreadful. If it moved you to tears, MD will be in the corner yawning and posting his/her article about how hammy the performances are and how obvious an attempt to pull on the heartstrings it was. If the effects were ground-breaking, MD will roll his/her eyes and talk about how many hours of green-screen that must have taken and then wax poetic on which actors in the film might have benefited from being animated themselves.
And, yet, MD liked Snakes on a Plane. With less damning praise than just about anything else I've ever read reviewed by MD. Admits it's a B-movie that's content to live and love at that level. Admits that the gross-outs and snake-bites are programmed to push buttons so the entire audience is squicked out. Accuses everyone else in the world of being shills for having gotten excited about the movie. Still gives it a fairly glowing review. And not just a good review for MD--an actually good review!
Short version: THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!!!
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Date: 2006-08-26 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-26 04:16 am (UTC)Heeeeyy, you're one of those film people--can you figure out if he/she is a he or a she?
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Date: 2006-08-27 10:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-27 06:46 pm (UTC)Also, yeah, that sampling of movies just proves that she really does hate anything with a budget. Curse you, you blockbuster-hating spinster!
(now I know she's a woman, I am free to cast aspersions on her femaleness!)