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Too close to bat guano, and we know for whom that's reserved.

Posted by Audiophilander (A) on July 12, 2005 at 15:26:42

In Reply to: Well at least you're not calling me a "chickensh*t" like in your original message. posted by clarkjohnsen on July 12, 2005 at 10:41:56:

Seriously, I couldn't believe that you were doing the waffle dance and using such a lame excuse as "being conciliatory." That just doesn't pass any reasonable credibility test.

>>> "For the record -- and this has been put on record before -- if I decide to see a movie I may clip reviews, but I never read them until afterwards. You alledge otherwise, but you live in a fantasy world, clearly." <<<

Saying "if I decide to see a movie" obfuscates the real point to which I was alluding (i.e., the fact that you've apparently posted critical reviews from second or third hand sources of films that you've never experienced first hand.

Let's put this into a historical perspective, shall we?

http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/search.mpl?searchtext=duncan+
sheperd&topic=&author=clarkjohnsen&date1=2001-01-01&date2=
sheperd&topic=&author=clarkjohnsen&date1=2001-01-01&date2=
&slowmessage=&forum=films

Have you seen all of these films in a theater (Die Another Day, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Treasure Planet)?

http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=films&n=27934&highlight=
duncan+sheperd+clarkjohnsen&r=&session=

How about I, Robot? Did you actually see it in it's initial release?

http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=films&n=14557&highlight=
duncan+sheperd+clarkjohnsen&r=&session=sheperd&topic=&author=
clarkjohnsen&date1=2001-01-01&date2=&slowmessage=&forum=films

Two reviews of LOTR, ...but where's your's???

This is just a random cross section, 3 of some 49 recorded second hand reviews that you authored since 2001, using the Film Asylum search engine, cut & pasted from Duncan Sheperd's reviews; many, many more examples can be brought up (further back and other reviewers).

Personally, I don't have a problem with your posting links to second hand opinions if, and I do mean IF, you've actually attended a showing of the film in question because it presumes that you share the same opinion (i.e., first-hand knowledge) as the reviewer. In other words, you should qualify it and express your own views as well so that folks know that you've actually seen the picture.

What I think folks really want to know is what YOU or I think of a specific movie as they're going to be able to gauge their own interest from first hand INFORMED opinions and interaction with folks whose opinions they trust on this discussion board. If it was just a matter of looking up reviews, that would be a no-brainer. One could simply post a link to Rotten Tomatoes for a good cross section of reviews.

Cheers,
AuPh

PS: Chickensh*t served at no extra charge by the Colonel of Truth! ;^)

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