Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sftri.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!mom From: mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re:The Leeper Critics... Message-ID: <300@sftri.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 13:03:09 EST Article-I.D.: sftri.300 Posted: Mon Jan 7 13:03:09 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 05:45:17 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Summit N.J. Lines: 39 <407@houxh.UUCP> says: >Come on. What's going on here? Does this team live at the movie theater >and read books during intermisssion? I must have read 15 articles >that were extremely biased as well as one sided. Secondly does anyone >who reads net.movies want book reviews? > >WayneZ... I must admit to some surprise myself at the volume of material that the Leepers produce, but I certainly have no quarrel with it. I don't find their reviews to be one-sided anymore than I find other reviwers to be one-sided. They give their one side: the Leeper side. You don't have to heed what they say, and as near as I can tell, they don't make out-and-out recommendations about films. Instead, they say whether or not they liked it, and most importantly, WHY. This is important because then the final judgement is really left up to you: you may have different likes/dislikes than they do, and the fact that you are told why they evaluate a film the way they do allows you to see for yourself whether or not you might like or dislike the film, too. As far as book reviews go, I have no problem with reviews of books dealing with movies, either a specific film, or even a work that concerns itself with a particlualr kind of film, or even about such things as film history, etc., etc. No one is forcing you to read articles by the Leepers, I don't agree that they are biased, and you are perfectly free to make your own critiques of films-- you feel their reviews are one-sided, so point out where you disagree. You seem to get the impression that we on the net wait until the Leeper Word is in before we go see a movie; not true, the net (including but not limited to the Leepers) is just one of my sources for reviews and impressions of movies that I usually gather before going to see a movie. Mark Modig ihnp4!btlunix!mom