Comment of the Week: Rejecting the reboots … and film critics

The always pugnacious JohnFN chimed in this week about the wave of remakes coming our way as well as why he doesn’t trust many movie critics …

That’s on top of 80-some sequels in the planning stages. Imagination isn’t so much dead, but walking around with arms elongated, screaming “brains” and terrorizing garage sales for 30-year-old lunch boxes.

Criticism is alive in well, in the proper corners, but increasingly political has become the personal, and leaving that at the door step to watch a film is a difficult task for a generation who has been taught that leaving certain parts of themselves out of analysis is strictly antiquated, and in fact, not artistic at all. My first step in dropping the New York Times was when the food reviews would find ways to take shots at George W. Bush. The final step was reading the front page and five stories were using anonymous sources, but I’ll give the critics credit for showing that even as a liberal newspaper, the paper wasn’t worth what was being dumped on it at the fish market.

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