Critics are getting increasingly lazy. The real skill of a critic is to be
able to review a film without giving away major plot points and/or appending
a couple of paras of opinion to a synopsis.
Then they have to learn the most difficult thing of all - review they saw,
not the film they thought it should be.
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "McDaniel Kirby" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 12:02 AM
Subject: [MOPO] Did the reviewers spoil BRUNO?
The fact that I laughed my head (read ass) off in BORAT made BRUNO a
know-brainer
for me. The problem is that I know too much. Not because I'm "in the
life." Yes, I know,
I know a lot of STARS (in the poster biz, naturlich) but that because I
was interested in
Baron Cohen and the movie, I read a lot about it. The reviewers have
given the whole damn
thing away.
If you want to go, I'd advise reading about it afterwards.* The film is
only 88 minutes long.
I had no huge laugh moments because I found that I pretty much knew what
the major set pieces were.
This is too bad because I do think it's pretty funny at times. Yet the
audience at the near sold out showing
at 9:15 on a Wednesday nite gently laughed their way thru it. Where were
those guys (gays) rolling in the
ailes?
*In fact this is a good idea with most movies.
Kirby McDaniel
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