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There's no shovel big enough to haul away the amount of bullshit in James's post.

Posted by Donald (A) on April 3, 2006 at 05:01:37

In Reply to: Indeed, you do need to learn to read. posted by Analog Scott on April 2, 2006 at 09:47:48:

He's even more of an intellectually dishonest asshole than I'd thought. Pointing out a handful of films that Ebert and Rosenbaum both like proves nothing. It would be more amazing if they didn't occasionally like the same thing. For every one film they agree on, one could cite many more where they don't.

Let's look at some of these gems:

Syriana - did not review. Probably not enough people in the audience for him to arrive at his own conclusions

That's cute, implying that the most independent-minded of all film critics forms his conclusions off of audience responses. What a weak insult that alone shows James has no credibility or decency, and is not serious about making a reasoned argument.

Robin Wood, James Quandt - Which obscure publication do they write for?

Interpretation: "I've never heard of them, therefore they can't be any good." Not having heard of these two greats shows James's towering ignorance. They've both written many superb books and Wood publishes the first-rate magazine Cinema Scope. Check it out.

Toni Raynes - I can find fourteen reviews she has authored. She is one of your favorites? How long does it take you to read fourteen reviews? And finally, must a professional film critic actually watch films and then commit finger to keyboard to actually be a critic?

Oh, here James thinks he's being cute by changing Tony's y to an i and calling him a girl. Real classy. Why does James assume that because he can only find fourteen reviews that there aren't any more? Tony is a highly esteemed film scholar, who's written many books and done DVD commentaries, and most of his writing just isn't on the web for James to conveniently google. Too bad.

Donald Ritchie - Mr. Obvious says that this must be you, because you like to read your own verbiage. Clue - writing perfunctory one-liners does not make you a film critic.

This one takes the cake. Ritchie has written exhaustive, universally praised film studies like A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Ozu, among many others, and James has the audacity to claim Ritchie writes one-liners.

Scott, your posting the link to this ill-informed trash reveals a lot about you. Do you really think James makes a strong case? He comes across as even more of snot-nosed philistine, wallowing in his ignorance and hurling childish insults against people whose work he doesn't have the slightest clue about. The man clearly knows nothing about about film or film criticism and I fear debating such a person is a waste of time. Feel free to align yourself with this hopeless middlebrow if you must.

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