Re: Thor
Johne Cook <[email protected]>
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Roger is an enigma. I enjoy his reviews very much, however, we are not always in perfect agreement. He gave 1.5 stars to Thor (which I thoroughly enjoyed) and 3 stars to the reboot of The Longest Yard (which I didn't finish). He hated the gadget films that I thoroughly enjoyed like Fight Club and The Usual Suspects. I'm prepared to draw my own opinion. I like it when our tastes are sympathetic. When they aren't, meh, I like what I like anyway. Johne Cook | http://raygunrevival.com | http://authorculture.blogspot.com |* * On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Mike Findlay <[email protected]>wrote: > Talk about damning w/ faint praise. If I were the movie Thor I'd have > preferred the first review. > > Mike F. > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Peter T. Chattaway > Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 8:26 PM > To: DADL (off topic) > Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Thor > > > On Thu, 12 May 2011, Paul Christian Glenn wrote: > >> Wow. That seems uncharacteristically harsh for him. >> > > He agrees with you! > > - > > http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/05/my_mighty_hammering_over_thor.html > > If I had my piece on "Thor" to write over again, I think it would be more > bemused and whimsical. My tone was off. I brought too much anger to a > trivial entertainment. When I described it as "a desolate vastation," I > went perhaps one hyperbole too far. > > I try to use a generic approach in my reviews. I approach a movie with > some idea of their intention and the expectation of their target audience. > I compared "Thor" to other movies based on comic book heroes, and found it > lacking. But it doesn't really intend to be good in the sense that "The > Dark Knight" or "Spider-Man II" are good. It's pitched at the level of a > children's movie, although the expensive scope of the production tends to > conceal that. . . . > > [ snip snippity snip ] > > -- > dadl-ot mailing list > http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot > > -- > dadl-ot mailing list > http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot > -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot