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Old 12-08-2012, 12:04 PM   #4 (permalink)
midnight rain
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Yeah I like those takes on it. Certainly critics can be more informed and knowledgeable about the medium they're working with, but as you said they can also close themselves off to external influence and take up posturing to get noticed and appeal to a certain demographic, rather than staying true to how they actually feel. I definitely see this with reviewers for some of the more mainstream publications like Rolling Stone.

As far as everyone being a critic of equal measure, that's certainly true one just has to take into consideration what they want to get out of the piece of art. If you're concerned with the latest CGI effects and the biggest, most intense explosions seen yet, you should probably take your friend Bob's advice on the latest, greatest Michael Bay movie to see. If you're genuinely interested in film as a whole, all of the genres it contains, and the evolution of it, you could do a lot worse than Ebert. It all depends on the audience.
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