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In Reply to: Clint Eastwood is mediocre & overrated (nt) posted by Jimmy NYC on February 7, 2007 at 12:24:11:
must have missed it.
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filmmakers. They must know something you don't.
How so?
what are there qualifications? I use this criteria on all types of subjects ,not just films. What is wrong with that? How do you judge opinions on anything? Just someones personal opinion on something is not good enough for me without some substance. If the comment is prefaced with this is only my personal opinion that would add some credibility. By the way this is only my opinion.
clear several hurdles. First off, someone must be paying to read their opinions or their work would be terminated. Second, an editor must have decided at some point that the critic has strong opinions, well bolstered by logic, and that he can express them clearly and entertainingly. In order for the critic to be taken seriously, he must have encyclopediac knowlege of film and formal film criticism.
Last, of course, is whether or not the person has a more elusive quality: taste. It is what distinguishes a connoisseur in many fields.
If I read you correctly, your objections to critics equally could apply to pretty much any artist: hell, anyone is qualified to throw paint upon a canvas, film his "vision," or cook up a fancy meal.
Yes, I mean what I am implying, tacitly. Film criticism, like all serious criticism of the arts, may be elevated to art itself.
There HAS to be more to it than just being published.
someone who puts thereself into a public position of opinions needs to be looked at precisely like what you say. They are giving their own taste or personal take on something (no matter what it is) and to me it is nothing more then that. I have no problem with someone giving an opinion on something, what bothers me sometime is the absoluteness that many of these criticics take in there comments. That was what I was trying to say. Thats all.
Jeffrey, Gene?
It is not a prerequisite to be a film maker in order to voice opinions on this board - your argument is lazy(nt)
as a film critic.
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