Earlier this week I stumbled past the blog (that I discussed a few days ago) on the critiquing of films and how the digital age has changed it, among everything else. But I took an interest in this idea of the blogging reviewer and how this has kind of changed the feel of reviewing... I found another blog that slightly looks on a different angle.
Have a look at this blog – here the blog talks about the “Film Critiques in Crisis” panel and what a few people had to say about this idea. One of the things that came up was the “decentralization of the film viewing experience”. I can’t say I completely agree with this as I work at the cinema and lord do I know that people are still seeing movies - I think that going to the movies will remain a fundamental event that won’t be taken over by the ‘digital age’ – well I hope otherwise I am out of a job! However I do agree that the internet has opened doors for people all over the world to download the latest blockbuster before reviews.
Another interesting point made by Matthew Boese, the author, was to do with no longer being dependant on geography so “the conception of an audience has vanished” therefore the blogger becomes a more prominent part of the film to review process. “The film blogger, in contrast to the print critic, writes to oneself rather than to a concrete notion of an audience.”
These film bloggers have changed the basis of the critiques and reviews through the less formal style and also by the fact that they “are not primarily concerned with essay-like criticism”. It becomes purely about opinion, judgements and comparisons to films like ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.
What do you think? Have the bloggers in this new technological age taken reviewing to a new level? And is it for the better?
Happy watching…
Blog reference:
http://www.filmlinc.com/b/?p=218
Want some more? Have a read of this:
http://doandroidsdreamofmovingpictures.blogspot.com/2009/08/theory-of-film-critiquing.html
Heading to a library? Have a read of this:
Raymond J. Haberski, Jr., It's Only A Movie!: Film and Critics in American Culture, University Press of Kentucky, 2001
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