Finally, an article that tells the truth about film critics
http://home.frontiernet.net/newsdetail.asp?cat=1&id=2168
and some excerpts
Critics of critics say professional reviewers have snooty tastes, applying the same criteria to an Eddie Murphy comedy or Vin Diesel bust-'em-up as they would to a Kurosawa or Fellini film.
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"You can't take a movie which is designed to be an action-adventure film and have it critically reviewed by somebody who's interested in independent, intense, dark, in-depth character portrayals like `Taxi Driver,'" said Nicolas Cage, whose adventure film "National Treasure" opens just before Thanksgiving.
Unfortunately, the same phenomenon occurs amongst music critics. All those alternative indie-rock loving critics are given full power to comment on genres like teen pop. Who the fuck are those indie-rock lovers to even comment on teen pop or other music genres?
The magazines, newspapers, etc should just have the alternative indie-rock lovers to review alternative indie-rock, reggae lovers to review reggae records and (sarcastic gasp) teen pop music lovers to cover teen pop.
Let's also remember that most film/music critics are hippies from Berkeley, Greenwich Village NY, Madison, and other hippie-town and they don't relate to the average American. Magazines need to start recruiting late teens/young adults who are into the non-hippie trends to respectfully review the pop scene. There has got to be some in that crowd that can write.
