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Post by MagdaFR on Nov 10, 2018 0:45:30 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 10, 2018 0:54:46 GMT
I read about on Variety. It's very sad!
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Post by mllemass on Nov 12, 2018 2:22:22 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 2, 2018 23:06:55 GMT
I see he got in another Twitter fight with another film critic! Apparently some people on Twitter Film got angry with him for saying critics were wrong about Bohemian Rhapsody. Two of them personally attacked him. The first one is someone who writes on a woke cultural blog. I actually used to like his articles but the obsession with political analysis of films is becoming boring and, as a lot of “woke” bros, he behaves awfully on social media: he was indeed very nasty to Derrickson. The new one writes for The Washington Post (much more bigger platform!) and casually compared Derrickson to Kevin Kline’s character in A Fish Called Wanda meanwhile calling him dumb. Derrickson blocked him and the guy made fun of it. As with the first one the revealing factor was the way they reacted to Derrickson’s reactions to their earlier attacks. It seems to me that the logic in both cases seems to be that Derrickson believes he is much more intelligent that he really is or in another words, he talks about art cinema and film criticism on Twitter but do shitty genre flicks so he doesn’t understand art cinema or film criticism and it’s dumb. They both doesn’t personally know him. It’s insane, of course! And I think it’s a reflection of how dumb (not Derrickson!) and nasty Film Twitter and all those young critics are. I’m not saying there weren’t nasty critics before (there were a lot!) but Twitter seems to do everything much bigger and louder. The worst part is that young critics tend be monolithic nowadays: thanks to reviews aggregators and social media they seem to worry about not having the “wrong” opinion. There’s almost not place for dissent nowadays and it’s very difficult we would see soon some big conflict as Pauline Kael vs. Andrew Sarris or Roger Ebert vs. Richard Corliss or at least a Roger Ebert vs. Gene Siskel! They all think the same so I guess there is no one to fight except filmmakers! For all that, I understand why Derrickson was worry that is becoming cool for critics to call him names on social media. The good news and talking about Ebert is that his widow wrote this:
I already saw a comment on Playlist (yes, they wrote a clickbaity piece!) doubting of her words but the guy also posted the stars on Ebert’s reviews of Derrickson early movies and they were mostly positive. It was a very weird comment: he said “Ebert gave it 3 stars out of 4, I don’t know why because I didn’t like that movie so she should be lying that Ebert was a fan” Anyway, it’s a very sweet gesture of her!
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Post by mllemass on Dec 3, 2018 0:27:03 GMT
I follow him on twitter, and he has said many times that actors, directors and anyone else involved in filmmaking should not criticize other people’s films. He only posts about movies he likes. His lists of favourite movies are movies I would never, ever watch, so we obviously don’t have the same tastes. But I still follow him because he seems to know what he’s talking about and he’s a nice guy. He used to tweet about a university filmmaking class he was teaching, so he’s not dumb!
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 3, 2018 2:55:55 GMT
I understand he was also a critic and champions film criticism but somehow some Film Twitter guys felt offended when he said Bohemian Rhapsody was better that what most critics said (Time’s Stephanie Zacharek put it on her best of the year list but she is an “older” critic than Twitter generation so she doesn’t care too much to fit in with the rest and she is respected so I don’t think they bother her). David Poland, someone who I like, wrote a long and kind of friendly (not rude as the others) thread that concluded with a suggestion that Derrickson should left Twitter because it’s weird for critics to have direct contact with filmmakers! I though wow! If they are worried for the purity of the craft then it should be critics the ones who left it! Seriously, Film Twitter is just shameful! You don’t do that! Corliss used to criticize Ebert for having friends in the industry and it was a very valid criticism TO THE CRITIC not the artist! The ones who should have boundaries are the critics not the other way! Being objective it’s their job. It’s not the job of the artist to take care of the critic’s objectivity! EDITED: I just saw this,
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Post by onebluestocking on Dec 3, 2018 6:57:08 GMT
Based on the things he posts, he seems like a smart guy with good taste in film. If his movies are more popular than arty, well, he isn't the first filmmaker to make that choice. Maybe he will use it as a springboard to indie projects in the future, or maybe he just likes both things. Either way, he shouldn't be concerned about some random online critics nobody has heard of.
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 3, 2018 11:40:44 GMT
Well, The Washington Post is not an online blog nobody has head of. I think that’s what bothered him: an influencing person making fun of him as a person and casually and publicity calling him “dumb”. Then later bragging that Derrickson confirmed his point because he blocked him! Very weird behavior by a professional critic. Although it wouldn’t be the first time that a professional anything shows how unprofessional he is! But still, it seemed totally unprovoked and gratuitous. I agreed with Derrickson that it’s not good if suddenly it becomes cool to hate him without reason and sadly herd thinking is very common on social media and, thanks to review aggregators too, between film critics. I can’t say to make it a big news it would ultimately help him, tho. but until now at least those two big names and other critics and journalists supported him.
On the other hand, I saw tweets by people asking for the critic to be fired. I think that’s awful, too. Twitter just bring the worst of people!
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Post by MagdaFR on May 27, 2020 0:11:40 GMT
Not everyone is happy.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 27, 2020 0:43:44 GMT
It's a 80s kids flick! Of course, "kids" aren't happy! Seriously I'm embarrassed by my infantilized generation. I watched all those movies when I was a kid: Star Wars, the absolutely awful The Goonies, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, this one, etc. But when I was around 12 years old I somehow developed a more adult taste in films and I never got back! I am more nostalgic for gritty 70s movies with John Cazale in the cast than for Labyrinth!!! I really can't understand people over 30 being defensive over children stuff! It's embarrassing! EDITED You know which slightly but not much more adequate movie I loved as a 12 years old interested in good filmmaking? Louis Malle's Au Revoir Les Enfant? I remembered it because it was recently added to mubi. I think in all those 80s style movies/series that are doing a comeback these days and how fake those kids are and always were. Probably it's not something appropriate for kids but I have always admired how some French filmmakers are so good doing sincere not necessarily sympathetic portraits of kids. They just feel so true. Louis Malle was one of them and, of course, there is the great Francois Truffaut but someone probably not so famous was Claude Miller. There is this movie with an extremely young Charlotte Gainsbourg called L'effrontee. It's probably not a masterpiece but it felt so real and sincere. He also directed a movie that was practically a very weird twisted horror film called La Classe de neige that again I thought it really reflected what was to be a kid. In this last case, a very freighted probably with mental issues kid!
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