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From: mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re:The Leeper Critics...
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Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 13:03:09 EST
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<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
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