I think Neil has a lot of good points about why this is happening – namely, that print media is dying out, and even that in the near future many more print critics may migrate to the Internet.

But I think too many people are getting caught up debating the merits of print vs. online, the distribution of film criticism. (Or movie reviews, however you think of it.) My main concern in all of this is that it’s not just PRINT critics that are losing jobs because they’re less important to consumers, but it’s criticism in general that is becoming less and less important to movie goers. Yes, perhaps the average member of the public doesn’t care to know or realize or think about the things that make movies fascinating (like a handful of topics within No Country alone). Maybe people just want to know if they should spend $10 to see The Ruins. Either way, it seems people care less about discussing a movie as art/culture/thought provoker than they used to. And that’s what troubles me the most.

Not to mention it’s a tricky thing to underestimate the intelligence and knowledge of your own reader. I’d be offended. And personally, I’d rather read the work of someone I know is a good writer and knows his/her shit than “anyone with an internet connection and a blogspot account.”

I think Neil has a lot of good points about why this is happening – namely, that print media is dying out, and even that in the near future many more print critics may migrate to the Internet.

But I think too many people are getting caught up debating the merits of print vs. online, the distribution of film criticism. (Or movie reviews, however you think of it.) My main concern in all of this is that it’s not just PRINT critics that are losing jobs because they’re less important to consumers, but it’s criticism in general that is becoming less and less important to movie goers. Yes, perhaps the average member of the public doesn’t care to know or realize or think about the things that make movies fascinating (like a handful of topics within No Country alone). Maybe people just want to know if they should spend $10 to see The Ruins. Either way, it seems people care less about discussing a movie as art/culture/thought provoker than they used to. And that’s what troubles me the most.

Not to mention it’s a tricky thing to underestimate the intelligence and knowledge of your own reader. I’d be offended. And personally, I’d rather read the work of someone I know is a good writer and knows his/her shit than “anyone with an internet connection and a blogspot account.”

You google a news story and you get the same associated press piece over and over again, in different peoples websites. Eventually you smell the coffee and go straight to associated press. I heard people who search around the web a lot for their work talk about a google button that excludes blogs from the search because of the useless material.

Of course i might be just deluding myself, since i’m running a pdf magazine that aspires to get printed soon…

You google a news story and you get the same associated press piece over and over again, in different peoples websites. Eventually you smell the coffee and go straight to associated press. I heard people who search around the web a lot for their work talk about a google button that excludes blogs from the search because of the useless material.

Of course i might be just deluding myself, since i’m running a pdf magazine that aspires to get printed soon…

Perhaps I’m a bit on the extreme side of things, in a fun Kurzweilian way, but newspapers haven’t always existed, and they won’t always exist. The internet hasn’t even begun to flourish to its potential, and when it does, and when it is proliferated as a true majority in the global fashion, print outlets will die.

They will die because there will be no money to be made.

This isn’t a sad thing – or at least it’s only about as sad as someone’s grandfather wishing people would write more letters. It’s nostalgic and should be memorialized in a history museum, but as we slowly make our decent into evolving into half-human, half-machine creatures, we’ll need to slough off the old trappings of culture like newspapers and mail.

What will really blow your mind is the day when e-mail becomes obsolete. And it will come. Hide your books away now, neo-luddites, because the end is near.

Perhaps I’m a bit on the extreme side of things, in a fun Kurzweilian way, but newspapers haven’t always existed, and they won’t always exist. The internet hasn’t even begun to flourish to its potential, and when it does, and when it is proliferated as a true majority in the global fashion, print outlets will die.

They will die because there will be no money to be made.

This isn’t a sad thing – or at least it’s only about as sad as someone’s grandfather wishing people would write more letters. It’s nostalgic and should be memorialized in a history museum, but as we slowly make our decent into evolving into half-human, half-machine creatures, we’ll need to slough off the old trappings of culture like newspapers and mail.

What will really blow your mind is the day when e-mail becomes obsolete. And it will come. Hide your books away now, neo-luddites, because the end is near.

I could say how the deputy murder scene revealed the inner madness of the Anton Chigurh character. The scratches on the floor recall German Expressionist works like M where the characters perspective was depicted in the mise-en-scene. But, when writing a review, I’d say instead that the scratches make Chigurh’s strangling more violent and I’m convinced Javier Bardem is psycho. Aha, Joe Blow gets it.

I hope to pull off reviews like Roger Ebert. He writes reviews that slip in a bit of film history and theory, but analysis is never the main thrust. In my opinion, he’s entertainment first, importance second. His books and college lectures are different. I don’t think Kevin Carr was really ranting about film analysis. He was more like highlighting the differences.

I could say how the deputy murder scene revealed the inner madness of the Anton Chigurh character. The scratches on the floor recall German Expressionist works like M where the characters perspective was depicted in the mise-en-scene. But, when writing a review, I’d say instead that the scratches make Chigurh’s strangling more violent and I’m convinced Javier Bardem is psycho. Aha, Joe Blow gets it.

I hope to pull off reviews like Roger Ebert. He writes reviews that slip in a bit of film history and theory, but analysis is never the main thrust. In my opinion, he’s entertainment first, importance second. His books and college lectures are different. I don’t think Kevin Carr was really ranting about film analysis. He was more like highlighting the differences.

Kevin is a little too passionate with a lot of things… That is what makes him effective to a certain extent. :)

Kevin is a little too passionate with a lot of things… That is what makes him effective to a certain extent. :)