Be careful what you write … the Web is watching.
The Web helped debunk Dan Rather’s fraudulent National Guard story on President Bush, but the Internet can also shoot down smaller targets with alacrity.
Veteran film critic Rex Reed found that out with his review of the Liam Neeson actioner, “Taken.”
Not only does Reed give away part of the film’s ending – the laziest trope of the film critic – but he gets plenty of his facts wrong in the process. But online movie reviews have a comments section, and the commentators blased away at poor ol’ Rex.
Good.
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I’m a Reed fan. I enjoyed his appearance in Myra Breckinridge and generally agree with many of his reviews.
That being said, may I hazard the guess that Taken didn’t enthuse him overly because it wasn’t as homoerotic as the new Bond series tries to be?
Ouch.
I don’t mind that he didn’t like the film, but he got basic facts wrong in his reportage that the comments section quickly blasted him on. I’m not perfect, and I’ve been corrected by a few posters, but this review was riddled with inaccuracies.
I’ve been taken to task for some mistakes myself — one of the most embarrassing was when I called “Wilson” in “Cast Away” a basketball! But then I am so ignorant of sports I feel lucky I didn’t call it a hockey puck.
At least you didn’t call it a football … great story!