Wed 10 Dec 2008
Why does The Indy always send people who hate good movies to review good movies? I am reminded of a time a few years back when the reviewer they sent to NEVERMORE started his review by noting how much he loathed horror films and I just had to slap my forehead. Seriously, Indy? Let me clue you in: I hate a lot of things. Let’s take, say, flying. I hate flying. You know what I did not become? A travel writer.
It seems like it wouldn’t be that hard to work out.
As for me, I can’t quite get my head around it enough just yet to describe in detail why I so loved Let the Right One In (standing tall with a 98% on rottentomatoes.com as I type this) but I can note that I just completely loved it and that it’s probably my favorite vampire movie of all time. Go see it, but hurry; its last day at the Carolina Theatre of Durham is Thursday.
When I was managing Plaza I stopped letting reviewers from the Tarheel in for free. Seriously pissed them off. When they threw a fit, I told them I’d reinstate it if they could find one good review for any movie we’d had in the last 3 years.
They were not amused.
Don’t send someone who only likes black & white Indonesian films to review ‘Dude, Where’s My Car?’ Send the folks who liked ‘Something About Mary’ or at least something in that genre.
I’m pretty sure the Indy guy just wanted to be a contrarian. He gave LtROI one star, and something else that was good one star in the same issue, and then he gave Synecdoche, NY four stars but spent a lot of the review bitching about it anyway.
Feh.