After being bothered by it for years, both by sites I contributed to and sites I merely visited, I've been giving great consideration towards "reviewing the reviewer".
I'd likely hit most of the major sites that contribute comic book reviews (and possibly other popular forms of entertainment) to dissect how common it is that the "reviews" are over 50% recap, rather than critique.
My question to the eight people still reading this with any regularity: would you be interested in seeing such an examination?
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Review The Reviewer
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You bet!
ReplyDeleteOh, HELLS yeah.
ReplyDeleteMy ex-wife was a movie reviewer, & her articles fell into this all too familiar trap. Spend 3-4 paragraphs summarizing, then one paragraph saying "It was good" or "It was bad." This is the main reason why I don't generally speaking read reviews of any kind anymore, at least for things that are artistic in nature.
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