Monday, February 6, 2012

Movie critics and online Blogging


Hello everyone! Welcome to my movie blog! When researching movie blogs, I've found that there are mixed feelings about this type of internet criticism. Film criticism used to be a very exclusive privilege reserved for people associated with various television networks and other print media. In today's world however, anyone with a love for movies and an internet connection is able to post their feelings about what they think is good and bad in the world of film. They can now do this without the pressure of editors and other authority figures censoring their work to safeguard against that which is not politically correct. The downside is that these new internet critics are doing so without the credentials you would expect from say a film critic working for rottentomatoes.com . One site “everyonesacritic.net” allows anyone of its users to post their reviews for others to read. Other online film reviewers like the “online film critics society” is an international group of professional film critics that review movies from an academic standpoint. Online blogging has changed the world of movie criticism in a big way. Special interest groups often create sites that review movies from the groups’ unique perspectives. For instance there is a growing number of “parent sites” that that review movies so parents know what kind of subject matter will be presented to their children. Other sites review movies through a religious framework such as sites that rate movies on how “Christian” they are. Another great development in online movie reviewing is the fact that people can now follow a certain person and get reviews from those critics who have demonstrated reviewing techniques that are consistent with the readers’ preferences.  Since I am not a movie critic by trade, this blog will simply be an expression of movies I enjoyed and some I did not. I do not claim to have paramount knowledge on what makes great award-winning cinema, I’m just a college student with a love for movies and a teacher who made me create this blog.              Hi Mr. Welch!

                 Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in a screenshot from "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967)

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