more to the pile...

In my meandering through the World Wide Web I came across this site: http://www.spill.com/ that has four reviews made into anonymous cartoons… and their tag line… “if its crap… we’ll tell you!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOgIleHhJjM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-FEUcHo5uA


Here we need to ask the question is opinion more reliable than the critical essay for of the film critique? These four guys have different standards for films and they tell it like it is. Their ratings range from ‘better than sex’ to ‘full price’, ‘matinee’, ‘rental’ or even ‘some ole bullshit’.

This compared to they typical ‘stars’ is quite different. Here the reviewers are obviously aiming towards a certain demographic as they rate them in colloquial terms. They also have in the ‘some ole bullshit’ a lot of ‘chick flick’, ‘rom-coms’ and action films that bombed at the cinema. Here I get the idea of the audience these guys vlog for are mainly guys. And this is where we need to ask ourselves whether the easily accessible is the best to go by – in this case not really. The reviewers for the SMH would be slightly more impartial and wouldn’t say they would want to “choke the motherf***ing kid [in the ‘Nanny Dairies’] like Homer chokes Bart’. Here is where the question of the reviewing level comes back into play. Some of the reviews on the spill are quite funny and interesting but the level of language and knowledge is obviously not high.

So the question remains – is blogging or vlogging a good thing for movie reviews? Does it drop it down to a slightly less intellectual level or does it make it more accessible and interesting for the everyday crowd?

And to go further with this has the digital age not only taken over the film reviews but of films themselves?
In researching this weeks topic I found a blogged review of the movie G. I. Joe that discussed the fact that the special effects in this film makes it all the more unbelievable… and not in a good way

So watch this space - Next week I will be looking through how digital media is affecting films in the 21st century.

Happy watching…

G I Joe and digital media blog - http://twogeeksandablog.com/starbuck/in-defense-of-gi-joe-the-rise-of-cobra/