tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143866771442228551.post2022431939277813774..comments2023-07-27T18:05:38.950+02:00Comments on Cerebral Mastication: Star TrashAli Arikanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02293558856795196349noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143866771442228551.post-15675188333351523252009-08-15T21:18:13.458+02:002009-08-15T21:18:13.458+02:00Anonymous - Getting to it. Sorry.Anonymous - Getting to it. Sorry.Ali Arikanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02293558856795196349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143866771442228551.post-4112182096817630912009-08-15T21:17:51.867+02:002009-08-15T21:17:51.867+02:00Hey Bobby,
I had not read his review for "Co...Hey Bobby,<br /><br />I had not read his review for "Coraline," and you are right, of course. He does have an obsessive, almost pathological, hatred of everything that Pixar does, doesn't he?<br /><br />The way he champions an unpopular film by pitting it against a popular one is stupid, but he doesn't do it often. I think it is his prose that is the biggest problem these days.<br /><br />He is infuriating, sure, but he has a distinct voice. He is not my favourite critic, he is not even in the top ten (which, incidentally, consists of Ebert, Emerson, Uhlich, Seitz, Cozzalio, and Copeland, among others), but I do prefer the way he looks at film to quite a lot of other, rather pedestrian, critics.<br /><br />That doesn't mean I agree with him, though. Because most of the time, I don't.Ali Arikanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02293558856795196349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143866771442228551.post-65245230190406193682009-08-15T21:04:09.968+02:002009-08-15T21:04:09.968+02:00Dear Ali, I just read your thing about Armond Whit...Dear Ali, I just read your thing about Armond White on Ebert's blog comments, and would like to respectfully disagree with you on one aspect. White's "comparisons that he makes are in the shape of his year-end list of contrarian opinions, which, as previosuly stated, is childish and risible".<br /><br />If you read his review for "Coraline", you will know that it's 90% saying "Wall-E sucked, this didn't." Is that not a comparasion?Bobbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143866771442228551.post-90587161530380288672009-06-01T13:52:55.219+02:002009-06-01T13:52:55.219+02:00Speaking of your hiatus Ali, I'm still waiting for...Speaking of your hiatus Ali, I'm still waiting for your Indiana Jones review...or did you forget that you said you were going to write that last summer?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143866771442228551.post-23978033460302802802009-05-23T14:25:58.495+02:002009-05-23T14:25:58.495+02:00Great review, Ali. But where did this come from, "...Great review, Ali. But where did this come from, "Let's see how you deal with that hirsute fucker."? And when you wrote in Roger's blog that you disliked <I>Star Trek</I> intensely, I had no idea that it was this intense. <br /><br />Still, thank you for alerting me to your review. I thought your hiatus would never end.Robert T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15821787545867777439noreply@blogger.com