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In Reply to: RE: Best or most popular? Corliss should know better. Just posted by jamesgarvin on December 11, 2007 at 07:14:22:
what his gist is:
"In fact, we're essentially passing notes to one another, admiring our connoisseurship at the risk of ignoring the vast audience that sees movies and the smaller one that reads us."
He's criticizing critics for not paying attention to the marketability of a film and instead grading it upon it's worth.
Your point is quite different.
One hears ridiculous opinions such as Corliss's occasionally from critics who vainly attempt to separate themselves from their peers; a one-up-personship, of sorts.
How many bottles of Montrachet are consumed each year compared to premium wine coolers?
Now, one may say that Oscars should be awarded based on their simplicity, popularity, budget, and star-factor but that would invalidate what is the stated objective of the award: excellence.
In other words, entertainment may be art but not necessarily vice-versa.
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Follow Ups
- Quit putting words into Corliss's mouth. Here's - tinear 17:53:16 12/11/07 (2)
- RE: Quit putting words into Corliss's mouth. Here's - jamesgarvin 07:43:33 12/12/07 (1)
- False premise. There are plenty of movie lovers that love - tinear 17:49:15 12/12/07 (0)
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