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...ARE YOU PEOPLE FOR FUCKING REAL?
From http://www.scifi.com/sfw/news/:
Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott, who co-wrote the screenplays for all three Pirates of the Caribbean films, told SCI FI Wire that they were bothered by the critical lashing of the second film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest—not because the reviews were negative, but because they were poorly written. "The thing that you really want are reviews that are critical,that are analytical, eloquent, insightful and actually help elevate the understanding of the movie," Rossio said in an interview promoting the release of the film on DVD Dec. 5. "A lot of times critical reviews aresort of disconnected from the actual movie, and that's not really interesting or helpful."
Elliott added that he values creative criticism, but hasn't seen much of that in the press. "The one that always bothered me is that three-paragraph-long extended metaphor where you're comparing the movie to something that happened to you at Disneyland," he said. "That's not telling the filmmakers anything about the craft. Terry and I have debates about this, but I actually genuinely feel that there is dialogue between the critic and the artist—and I'm using artist here to mean somebody who works in the art realm; we're not making claims of any sort—and there are reviewers outthere, there are critics out there, who do that. But for the most part, I mean, the level of film criticism right now, I think, is incredibly poor."
You know why the reviews of the movie sucked? BECAUSE THE MOVIE SUCKED. There. Which one of you lives in my town? I will hunt you down and explain in exacting detail what the criticisms of the movie were.
The criticism wasn't good enough? Seriously? THAT'S your witty riposte defending your movie? THE CRITICS JUST DIDN'T GET IT? SERIOUSLY? They didn't discuss the existentialist aspects of the movie *because you failed at depicting them*.
What the fuck?
No love at all,
S.
P.S. The link includes T&T talking about the end of AWE which doesn't spoil AWE terribly much, but which does spoil DMC if you haven't seen it.
From http://www.scifi.com/sfw/news/:
Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott, who co-wrote the screenplays for all three Pirates of the Caribbean films, told SCI FI Wire that they were bothered by the critical lashing of the second film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest—not because the reviews were negative, but because they were poorly written. "The thing that you really want are reviews that are critical,that are analytical, eloquent, insightful and actually help elevate the understanding of the movie," Rossio said in an interview promoting the release of the film on DVD Dec. 5. "A lot of times critical reviews aresort of disconnected from the actual movie, and that's not really interesting or helpful."
Elliott added that he values creative criticism, but hasn't seen much of that in the press. "The one that always bothered me is that three-paragraph-long extended metaphor where you're comparing the movie to something that happened to you at Disneyland," he said. "That's not telling the filmmakers anything about the craft. Terry and I have debates about this, but I actually genuinely feel that there is dialogue between the critic and the artist—and I'm using artist here to mean somebody who works in the art realm; we're not making claims of any sort—and there are reviewers outthere, there are critics out there, who do that. But for the most part, I mean, the level of film criticism right now, I think, is incredibly poor."
You know why the reviews of the movie sucked? BECAUSE THE MOVIE SUCKED. There. Which one of you lives in my town? I will hunt you down and explain in exacting detail what the criticisms of the movie were.
The criticism wasn't good enough? Seriously? THAT'S your witty riposte defending your movie? THE CRITICS JUST DIDN'T GET IT? SERIOUSLY? They didn't discuss the existentialist aspects of the movie *because you failed at depicting them*.
What the fuck?
No love at all,
S.
P.S. The link includes T&T talking about the end of AWE which doesn't spoil AWE terribly much, but which does spoil DMC if you haven't seen it.