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In Reply to: Ridiculous list reflecting no knowledge of the genre (nt) posted by TG on June 28, 2000 at 17:41:23:
It's strange that negative reviews of various films are presented in a book that promulgates them as being the best. For example, "The Day The Earth Stood Still" -1951, was condescendingly reviewed by Bosley Crowther in September
1951, who said
the robot was so unmenacing that he'd seen better monsters in theaters
on 42nd St., and that the film makes for a tepid entertainment in
what is anomalously lableled the science-fiction field.
Obviously someone down the line at the NYTimes felt differently as
the film is listed in the book, which illustrates the idiosyncratic,biased
approach of a stuffed-shirt with no real objectivity or
knowledge of the genre.
This type of snobbery doesn't surprise me, considering that sci-fi
was struggling for recognition at the time and that NYTimes reviewers
probably considered the genre markedly inferior to the ones they were
used to evaluating.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Ridiculous list reflecting no knowledge of the genre (nt) - AudioHead 09:01:52 06/29/00 (3)
- Looked at the list again and ... - TG 18:47:05 06/29/00 (2)
- Re: Looked at the list again and ... - AudioHead 07:42:02 06/30/00 (1)
- Of course! (smacks head) it's obvious now .. - TG 08:03:56 06/30/00 (0)
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