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kybearfuzzI'd read somewhere that Season 3 of Gilmore Girls was being released on DVD in May. I quickly zoomed to Amazon.com to see when it will be available.
As I'm reading the details, I came across this scathing review by "John Q. Public" of this season and am a bit aghast at what he had to say:
"Third season of the series saw more badly written dialoge between Loraeli and Rory, the romances went no where, the supporting cast look like they are on drugs when they say the lines, and intelligent mothers and daughters will see the superfisal side of this piece of trash from AOL Films."
While John has the right to say whatever he pleases, per our wonderful First Amendment, I totally disagree with him. He seem to completely miss the boat on the series. Perhaps the humor and the writing is a bit above him, seeing how his spelling and grammar are atrocious. Having him argue what is good or bad writing is akin to having a nun handing out sex therapy.
Given his inclination to rate things low, I decided to delve a bit into his other reviews... and there are a lot of them. Basically, this dude reads, watches, and listens to all sorts of pop culture media.. and likes none of it. My curiosity gets the better of me at times, but I cannot fathom why a person would spend so much time reviewing things he apparently doesn't like. If he truly has read, listened, and watched all of the things he has reviewed, when does he work?? Basically, anything I like and enjoy, got two stars or less, including some great Britcoms. The only thing he seemingly rated five stars was an old Jimmy Stewart flick about our armed forces and the only four star was the Animated Star Trek cartoons.
The kicker is when I found his review of the new War of the Worlds movie that HASN'T EVEN BEEN RELEASED YET. It garnered a wonderful star out of five. He must be psychic... or psycho. I picture the comic book guy from The Simpsons for some reason.
Still, he has the right to type in whatever he pleases and most people, according to the ratings of his 100+ reviews, aren't listening to him. It's solace in a way. After all, if you basically don't like anything you review, and it appears that you rate things low on purpose whether you've actually seen it or not, what is your opinion truly worth?
As I'm reading the details, I came across this scathing review by "John Q. Public" of this season and am a bit aghast at what he had to say:
"Third season of the series saw more badly written dialoge between Loraeli and Rory, the romances went no where, the supporting cast look like they are on drugs when they say the lines, and intelligent mothers and daughters will see the superfisal side of this piece of trash from AOL Films."
While John has the right to say whatever he pleases, per our wonderful First Amendment, I totally disagree with him. He seem to completely miss the boat on the series. Perhaps the humor and the writing is a bit above him, seeing how his spelling and grammar are atrocious. Having him argue what is good or bad writing is akin to having a nun handing out sex therapy.
Given his inclination to rate things low, I decided to delve a bit into his other reviews... and there are a lot of them. Basically, this dude reads, watches, and listens to all sorts of pop culture media.. and likes none of it. My curiosity gets the better of me at times, but I cannot fathom why a person would spend so much time reviewing things he apparently doesn't like. If he truly has read, listened, and watched all of the things he has reviewed, when does he work?? Basically, anything I like and enjoy, got two stars or less, including some great Britcoms. The only thing he seemingly rated five stars was an old Jimmy Stewart flick about our armed forces and the only four star was the Animated Star Trek cartoons.
The kicker is when I found his review of the new War of the Worlds movie that HASN'T EVEN BEEN RELEASED YET. It garnered a wonderful star out of five. He must be psychic... or psycho. I picture the comic book guy from The Simpsons for some reason.
Still, he has the right to type in whatever he pleases and most people, according to the ratings of his 100+ reviews, aren't listening to him. It's solace in a way. After all, if you basically don't like anything you review, and it appears that you rate things low on purpose whether you've actually seen it or not, what is your opinion truly worth?
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:03 pm (UTC)My other peeve is when people don't review a DVD, but just recap the plot. I've seen some people who recap the plot over every episode of some TV show released on DVD. Ugh. Drives me crazy!
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Date: 2005-03-17 12:39 am (UTC)