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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Kelvin calls it quits: brief apology, then long commentary.
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 01:58:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 01:58:00 1985
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Well, I for one am sorry to see it end, Kelvin, tho' I'm glad you'll still
be on the net; I found your reviews to be clever and funny in a net which is
slowly losing humor potential.  Also, I don't see quite what you're
apologizing for.  However, a bit of justification for reviews:

>[1]  To make a statement about the inherent ridiculousness of the movie
>review itself.   Each viewer has a unique response to a movie, based on
>his or her unique set of preferences, biases, and tastes ... and yet some
>people -- sometimes one's friends and sometimes pseudo-oracles called
>Critics -- presume to predict how others will respond.  If a single
>person can have two different reactions to a movie on two different days,
>how can a Critic predict how millions will respond?  And other artsy-
>fartsy bullshit.

Right, right, no argument with individual preference und point-of-view.
However, once one has gotten familiar with a critic's point-of-view from
previous reviews (and from matching these reviews with the viewer's own
impressions), the viewer can often use the critic's reviews as a weathervane
for detecting whether (oops, pun) the viewer will like it or not.  Given
four or five reviews from different critics, one gets an even better idea of
the film's potential.  And I'm afraid, old sport, that some of us aren't
loaded with the megabucks and/or free time to see every film on the market;
thus, critics (and many of those on net.movies, reiher in particular) do
serve a function.

But, hey, that's not the *main* reason I post movie reviews.  It's all due
to my inherent facination with films!  I enjoy reading why other people
liked/disliked a film I saw; I enjoy talking about why I liked a film.  It's
a hobby, see, and we're all here because we've got an interest in said
hobby; and reviews give us a chance to talk about what's happened lately in
our area of interest.

Anyway, sorry to hear about the hate mail; there's some screwed-up
individuals on the net.  Glad to see you're still around, if for no other
reason than you're the only net individual who has been accused of being an
AI project more often than I have...

                               "Can you hammer a 6-inch spike into a wooden
                                plank with your penis?"
    "Uh, not right now."
                               "Tsk.  A girl has to have some standards."

                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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