tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081747433018117316.post6705402638055297980..comments2024-03-26T15:33:47.822+05:00Comments on THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS: REVIEW: Dinner For Schmucks (dir. Roach)Tom Shonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938779517705582285noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081747433018117316.post-22629170431596882862010-08-09T21:02:08.927+05:002010-08-09T21:02:08.927+05:00Hey Tom, one thing that's come up in criticism...Hey Tom, one thing that's come up in criticism in the age of the web is review aggregate sites. <br /><br />Rotten Tomatoes operates on the yay or nay mode, and I think most readers can easily discern this is a nay. <br /><br />Some people think it's important to consider the strength of the opinion. Pinpointing it can be tricky, though. Metacritic scored this review 50/100. For them, a "C" is a 50, but here you gave it a D-. Movie Review Intelligence deemed your review's rating of the movie "poor."Nadianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081747433018117316.post-50424306438180811582010-07-31T04:54:21.385+05:002010-07-31T04:54:21.385+05:00Ha!
Re Rudd: there's a whole scene in the m...Ha! <br /><br />Re Rudd: there's a whole scene in the movie where they explain that even thought he's a nice guy, he's still going to do this. A whole scene. It's like overhearing a script meeting discussing his motivation. <br /><br />The point I was trying to get across about Carrell is that those he rarely looks people in the eye. You can see the cogs whirring. He's transparently manipulative. But he's never dumb. He's just self-deluded and self-defeating. There's some pantomime value in seeing him play dumb but I never bought the character. (I was too busy being annoyed by him.)Tom Shonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06938779517705582285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081747433018117316.post-51261033457731281102010-07-31T03:34:38.303+05:002010-07-31T03:34:38.303+05:00Rudd can play jerkball when called upon (cf. "...Rudd can play jerkball when called upon (cf. "Wet Hot American Summer"), but I'm generally in agreement about his likability quotient, not to mention what sounds like a typical gumming up the works of the "character motivation" in his latest movie. Hollywood's accused of being brainless, but sometimes I wonder if more often than not they're guilty of overthinking.<br /><br />Your thoughts on Carrell are equally perceptive, except that I don't see his Michael Scott as a "venal schemer" on "The Office." He's more like that nitwit TV host babbling about Christina Hendricks' bath.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01450775188328918558noreply@blogger.com