movie reviews

[khedron]

"This is a two hour snuff movie, 'The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre'"
-- David Edelstein, Slate.com film reviewer

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Adventures in auto-generated marketing text

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

I'm amused that, after a multiple-paragraph lambasting of the film, there's a little note that says:

"Buy tickets to The Passion of the Christ on MSN."

with the appropriate hyperlink.

Re: Adventures in auto-generated marketing text

[khedron.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very nice! I hadn't seen that, since I heard the (word-for-word) review on NPR.

Of course, he didn't like "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra", apparently, so what does he know? Josh says that Ebert said something like, "It's the bloodiest movie I've ever seen, two thumbs up!"

Re: Adventures in auto-generated marketing text

[m00nglum.livejournal.com]

He goes on about the violence and then gives it four stars. The full review: http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/cst-ftr-passion24.html

So you don't have to read it...
"Four stars"

"The movie is 126 minutes long, and I would guess that at least 100 of those minutes, maybe more, are concerned specifically and graphically with the details of the torture and death of Jesus. This is the most violent film I have ever seen."
...
"What Gibson has provided for me, for the first time in my life, is a visceral idea of what the Passion consisted of. That his film is superficial in terms of the surrounding message -- that we get only a few passing references to the teachings of Jesus -- is, I suppose, not the point. This is not a sermon or a homily, but a visualization of the central event in the Christian religion. Take it or leave it."
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"The MPAA's R rating is definitive proof that the organization either will never give the NC-17 rating for violence alone, or was intimidated by the subject matter. If it had been anyone other than Jesus up on that cross, I have a feeling that NC-17 would have been automatic."

Re: Adventures in auto-generated marketing text

[khedron.livejournal.com]

In line with this, I saw the NYT goof with auto-generated financial info links. In the following paragraph from Circuits today, they linked "Palm" to the makers of the Palm Pilot. I somehow don't think "Palm of Doom" is quite the recognition Palm One, Inc. wants.

"Video-game studies is still a nascent field, too young to have a standard list of must-play games, let alone endowed professorships. The day Mr. Bellin and Dr. Palmer can meet at the faculty club to discuss Mr. Bellin's seminar on first-person shooters of the 1990's, or reminisce about Dr. Palmer's mastery of Akira's Stun Palm of Doom in time to complete his exegesis of Virtua Fighter 4, is still far off."

(http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/26/technology/circuits/26play.html. Emphasis mine.)