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[sun_set_bravely]

I want to make this brief so I don't over-think the subject:

I think critics are irrelevant. Movie and theatre critics, especially.

Critics are human beings with opinions. Fine. Dandy. I have opinions too.

But people shouldn't relinquish their opinions for that of ONE PERSON, who may have seen the movie on the day she got divorced, or stubbed her toe, or whatever other event impacts the way she feels about the world.

From this point out, if I read a review, I will let it roll off my brain, unabsorbed.

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[echoboom.livejournal.com]

ive always had this idea of being a critic.. but every reveiw would state answers to basic questions:

current mood:
level of anticpation for this media:
how interested in the subject am i at this moment and why?
what have i heard so far regariding the item..

stufff like that....

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good idea. freak1c and I were talking about this last night, and I narrowed in on what I find annoying. It's not so much the act of one person telling their opinion. It's the power that the public gives that one opinion. If Lawrence Van Gelder doesn't like the play I'm directing, then people won't go to see it. Do they know him? Why should they care what he thinks? It's fine for him to have an opinion. It's not fine for people to take that opinion for his own.