Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Do you know what this guy is saying?

Music reviews are especially hard to do. The words and phrases that some music critics come up with to describe different music are just awe-inspiring, but with this review something is missing. Perhaps, sense?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/amaryllis-20120326

Beautifully Written Review, combining modern day slang with poetic language

Check out this review written by Peter Travers for Rolling Stone. I love following Travers because of his chameleon like qualities when he reviews. For some pieces he writes like how you think a critic should write with eloquent language, and draws from previous works to support his views, and other times, such as with his review of Project X, he writes for his audience and uses swear words and down and dirty language that gives that particular audience what they are looking for, which is completely different from anyone who wants to watch The Deep Blue Sea.


http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-deep-blue-sea-20120322

Monday, March 26, 2012

The Hunger Games Review: Assumptions are a peril especially when they are unfounded.

For all of those who read the books and not just saw the movie, The Hunger Games, I hope you will realize how false this review is. When I was reading I couldn't believe that he got this impression from The Hunger Games and then decided to project that impression as the norm, which I certainly hope it is not. Did he not see the anguish in Katnis and Prim's faces, and in all of the other children's faces, as they were hoping they would not be the ones chosen to die at the reaping? Did he not see the scene between Katnis and Gale discussing how they could stop the games from being watched? The worst part about this  review is he assumes that this is the norm for most viewers, that they all worship the games and would love to be the ones chosen to DIE. All of the children die except for one, in usual circumstances, the districts don't glorify this event except for the Capitol, and I do not believe that the readers or the viewers see this as some great exhalation of reality TV in general, and certainly not of the Hunger Games themselves inside the world this author has created. Read yourself and see what you think.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/charmageddon_LexlErZlPi2iiSI5WH5QEP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped%20Columnists