I’ve always wanted to go back in time to college (when YouTube was still young) and create a YouTube channel called “Really Real Reviews” where I would review movies and video games based in reality, and not in snooty industry terms. Going to see a Michael Bay film? I’ll review it as a Michael Bay film and not as an Oscar contender. Same with cartoons/kids movies. Sometimes they’re just silly, sometimes they’re serious, sometimes they’re a combination, but I’ll tell you the real review of it.
Even his bowel movements. Which are indistinguishable from his films. :):eek:
This is a very good point. I never thought of it that way.
It would be Crowe regaining his humanity, becoming less of a figurative ghost in his own life (instead of a literal one).
Likewise, The Crying Game is nearly the same movie if Dil is a girl. Boy kills man, boy falls for man’s girlfriend, boy is redeemed. Friend of the Deceased is a similar movie (with no twist).
First: Industry terms are not snooty. Industry terms are things like “net” and “gross” and “points” and other commercial concepts related to, yes, the industry of making money from film. That is utterly orthogonal to the art and craft of filmmaking, which is where the snooty film school terms come from.
Second: Siskel and Ebert did precisely that. Many, many people are doing that on YouTube as we speak, and were doing it in text-only form on review sites before Web video was really feasible. Approaching films on their own terms is the mark of a competent reviewer. Not necessarily good, but competent. The only people who approach Michael Bay films as objets d’art are either doing it for a laugh or are writing for an audience which does not include any of us, given that none of us are film school professors.
I didn’t have the idea for it until well after. And I don’t even have a YouTube channel, much less followers, so doing it now would be starting a large endeavor from scratch. I don’t care THAT much.
Again, given the parameters are doing it before hundreds of other people are doing it on Youtube gives me much greater chances of making money on it than winning the lottery. Also notice I said “make money” not “live off of”.
I do think that M. Night Shyamalan’s work is pretty terrible, but someone else once pointed out that he gets one unfair criticism, which is that ever since the Sixth Sense and some other movies, people expect a plot twist in a Shyamalan movie, and so when a Shyamalan movie doesn’t have a plot twist, people latch on to whatever could vaguely pass as a plot twist in his movie, and exclaim, “That was such a WEAK plot twist!”
A lot of people mention the “twist” of The Happening being that “the plants did it,” but it was never a twist. The movie literally opens with shots of the wind blowing through plants, the whole thing gets revealed less than halfway through the movie, and the originally title was “The Green Effect.”
