Hey robyn_ma!

[yendi]

You've seen this article by Ebert over his 0-star review of Chaos, right?

(Link courtesy of sweinberg)

(Oh, and felisdemens: Chaos was the movie whose name I couldn't remember last night)

Comments

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

It wasn't until today that I knew our former roomie Laura was writing reviews for the NY Times. Thanks to Ebert for the quote.

[kizlj.livejournal.com]

ha, timing.

[yendi]

Heh. As soon as I saw your first comment in my mailbox, I knew what this one was going to say. :-)

[kizlj.livejournal.com]

that article was a fun way to discover my former roommate now writes occasional movie reviews for NYT. neat.

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Why won't these links work for me? The pages won't load.

[yendi]

the ebert.suntimes.com domain has been crawling today. I suspect that it's at its worst on Fridays.

[asim.livejournal.com]

Try bouncing to the front page:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/

And selecting the link for the "Evil in film: To what end?" link from there. As counter-intuitive as it sounds, that worked for me. I suspec tthere's some weird throttling going down on the server end.

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

They worked eventually. Thanks. Great little article.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

It's a well-thought-out piece, though I'm not sure art's place is to express morality.

[yendi]

True, although I don't buy the claim that they're making a film that's supposed to expose the true nature of evil, either.

I'm most interested in wanting to see a response from the director and producer on the LHotL issues, both in terms of the potential plagiarism situation and the differences in how the films approach the same subject.

[averyslave.livejournal.com]

I'm not totally sure if there would be a plagiarism case or not. LHotL was itself based on some Scandinavian folk tale that's as old as the hills -which is pretty old as far as Scandinavia goes. So, taking inspiration from LHotL is one thing, but they could just say they were spinning a new vision of that same folk tale.

(Pulled these comments from my viewing of the LHotL DVD features a while ago, so someone might want to check my accuracy. The DVD isn't readily available to check it myself.)

In any case, LHotL was a remorseless piece of exploitation. When I saw it, my thought was "WHY?" much like Ebert's reaction to "Chaos." Personally, I don't care to see "Chaos" and hope never to see LHotL again.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

I don't think Ebert is saying that either. It's just that he doesn't want artistic works to express brutality and only brutality without context.

Although he did give Clockwork Orange only two stars (I remember this from a Gene Siskel review where he talked about the review that most haunts Roger - and it was Siskel's review of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls)