Dumbing down
Quote of the day from Michael Brooke, who reveals just how much standards are slipping at Sight and Sound:
I should probably confirm that those three words do indeed appear in the review, in that order, and that the quote is a fair reflection of the overall tone - though you won't be able to check this for yourself until the next Sight & Sound is published. That said, if you want a sneak preview, David Parkinson's much shorter review in Empire drew more or less exactly the same conclusions, so just imagine his piece expanded to 900 words and the reference to Alexander Dovzhenko replaced with one to Viz's Buster Gonad and you'll probably get the general idea.I understand future issues promise us such treats as 'Recontextualizing Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and the Fat Slags', 'True Northern Realism: Contrasting Kes and Black Bag' and 'The Tinribs Effect: Special Effects in British SF movies'.
Nick got away with this at 3:15 AM
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I think once you see the film I was reviewing, you'll see why I went down that particular route!
Indeed, if you read these American reviews, you can see how hamstrung they are by their lack of knowledge of any characters famous for possessing unfeasibly large testicles, meaning that they can't draw the same economical comparison that I did.
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