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critics be damned
Apr. 10th, 2011 12:20 pmThis is a paragraph from a two-page screed distributed at SF conventions titled "The Irony of Negative Reviews: Creating Cult Classics". It's by Dr. John Flynn, PhD, and seeks to convince us that critics simply are too stupid to "get" science fiction films, and that's why they review the films poorly, and that every SF film that gets a poor review is later regarded by society as a whole as an eternal classic of filmmaking.
The film this essay is in support of: BATTLEFIELD EARTH.
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Now, I may be dim, but in the eleven years since BATTLEFIELD EARTH was released to near-empty theaters filled with derisive laughter, I don't believe "the film's virtues have emerged", as the essay puts it. A critical re-evaluation has yet to occur among the film-world cognoscenti. Sometimes a terrible film is simply a terrible film, and sometimes the critics are perfectly correct in their big meanie pants reviews.
New computer is up, running the Firefox with the ad blocker, new scanner is up, files from old computer are transferred, everything is working fine. Probably should have done this a while ago.
The film this essay is in support of: BATTLEFIELD EARTH.
(click to make readable)
Now, I may be dim, but in the eleven years since BATTLEFIELD EARTH was released to near-empty theaters filled with derisive laughter, I don't believe "the film's virtues have emerged", as the essay puts it. A critical re-evaluation has yet to occur among the film-world cognoscenti. Sometimes a terrible film is simply a terrible film, and sometimes the critics are perfectly correct in their big meanie pants reviews.
New computer is up, running the Firefox with the ad blocker, new scanner is up, files from old computer are transferred, everything is working fine. Probably should have done this a while ago.
