Jan 2009
To Harsh or Not, that is the question
Jan 05 2009 00:27 Filed in: Review
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When I updated one of
the few reviews I actually bothered posting on
another blog
site, I
was surprised to see actual comments from readers.
And that said readers thought my harshness was
undeserved. (Basically I was hard on Ashton
Kutcher's acting, and the Kevin Costner
not-going-gentle-into-middle-age vehicle
The
Guardian.)
At first I felt rebuffed, hurt the folks commenting did see the humor in the harshness, appreciate my exaggeration and hyperbole. (And who said a review had to be funny?) Blogs are for healthy disagreements of course, and while these comments felt short of engaging dialogues, they were fair representation of the readers' thoughts and perfectly valid nonetheless. So I decided to search for a few other reviews, to see if I perhaps need to tamper my opinions.
Perhaps I need to incorporate some warning to the website. Beware gentle readers, there be snark ahead!
At first I felt rebuffed, hurt the folks commenting did see the humor in the harshness, appreciate my exaggeration and hyperbole. (And who said a review had to be funny?) Blogs are for healthy disagreements of course, and while these comments felt short of engaging dialogues, they were fair representation of the readers' thoughts and perfectly valid nonetheless. So I decided to search for a few other reviews, to see if I perhaps need to tamper my opinions.
- Reviews of Paul Walker and Jessica Alba's Into the Blue called it "chum, to be thrown in with the sharks" and also question the "thespian skills" of its "stars."
- I took a peak at other reviews of The Guardian, which earned an impressive 34% approval rate. Phrases like "schlock," water-logged" and "sinker" were common.
Perhaps I need to incorporate some warning to the website. Beware gentle readers, there be snark ahead!
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