Re: you're not a bad person, Dana, just a bad reviewer
by
Sundown
11/06/2009, 7:35 PM
Monster Ballads Suq:yeah, and I'd like to add whether or not I agree with her on every movie, she's not a 'bad reviewer.' Bad meaning 'uninteresting'...
She's not uninteresting. But BA's laundry list of top films she didn't like is noteworthy; if you're consistently out-of-whack with what the majority think, then you're not much good as a critic.
For me, she's got three problems which are all interconnected (not really in evidence with this review, but they come up frequently): 1) She tends to fault the movie for absolutely anything that isn't clear to her. 2) She's not very good at following plots in the first place, and 3) She compounds things by frequently failing to do any homework like reviewing the original films before seeing sequels or double-checking things before writing her review.
For a laugh, check out her review of the second Pirates of the Caribbean film where she brags about never having seen the first film...right before complaining how the plot of the sequel was hard to follow. (Surely, one of her goofiest reviews ever).