Owen Gleiberman, is one the two top movie critics for Entertainment Weekly. Like his colleagues, he watches movies and makes reviews whose lengths primarily depend on the movies’ hype. A big release will get an extensive review spanning a couple of pages, while an independent title might get just an eighth of a page.
The following week, no matter the hype, new titles are released, and the older reviews are condensed more and more and pushed towards the back of the Movies section.
Since Avatar is now quite old, its once extensive review has been condensed to this:
As spectacle, James Cameron’s 3D alien-jungle epic is indelible – a true rush – but as a film it all but evaporates as you watch it.
I couldn’t agree more.
Amazing how in a few chosen words, the value of such a tectonic phenomenon can be so effectively expressed.
No comments:
Post a Comment