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June 2, 2006
Film Criticism When Everyone's a (Published) Critic
There is a good piece in Hollywood Reporter today on how the democratization of film criticism -- mostly driven by the Internet and blogs -- is transforming the movie business. Critics have less power, new critics are emerging, studios are confused, and everyone is running in circles -- including the new critics:One rising cyber-star is FilmFreakCentral.net's Walter Chaw, who writes with a refreshing candor that you would never find in the print world. In his recent review of "X3," for example, Chaw calls director Brett Ratner "a homophobic, misogynistic, misanthropic moron."In a sense, traditional critics are being pushed up-market. The only films about which they can write and have an influence are art-house flicks, which tells you a lot about the changing nature of film criticism readers.
But in a "The House Next Door" blog interview, Colorado native Chaw admits that he struggles to gain entry to screenings, even though his site has three times the traffic of both Denver dailies combined. "I don't know if I'd be as moral," he says, "if I were banking Roger Ebert's or even a living wage."
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Assuming your comment isn't some of meta-parody about art and criticism, then I don't know where you're coming from. I didn't see any attacking in the piece, but I'm fairly thick-skinned.
"There is a good piece in Hollywood Reporter"
What qualifies as "good"? The ability to attack someone and spew off incendiary remarks? Is that really good? There seems to exist a growing trend were individuals feel that its appropiate and acceptable to attack someone, often without any true evidence, instead of saying something with substance; whether we agree or not. I haven't read the review but I will.