Hollywood goes for blockbuster returns on Memorial Day, but how do the Us-centric hyper-macho films perform overseas?
Memorial Day is fast approaching, so naturally one's thoughts turn to the Fallen, and to the shared sacrifice of European and American continents as they united in common cause against the spectre of global tyranny. But that's enough about the reviews for Battleship.
"A preposterously lunkheaded salute to American naval machismo" snorted Tim Robey in The Daily Telegraph. "It seems that the Us Navy is as much committed to the production of this film as is the toy company" opined Le Monde's Thomas Sotinel. As news of the hostile European reception spread, American critics equipped their reviews with a pre-emptive Euro-snob missile defense shield. "That the movie didn't exactly receive hosannas in Europe should surprise absolutely no one. This is a Super-American movie," bristled Jeff Simon of Buffalo News. "It would be like...
Memorial Day is fast approaching, so naturally one's thoughts turn to the Fallen, and to the shared sacrifice of European and American continents as they united in common cause against the spectre of global tyranny. But that's enough about the reviews for Battleship.
"A preposterously lunkheaded salute to American naval machismo" snorted Tim Robey in The Daily Telegraph. "It seems that the Us Navy is as much committed to the production of this film as is the toy company" opined Le Monde's Thomas Sotinel. As news of the hostile European reception spread, American critics equipped their reviews with a pre-emptive Euro-snob missile defense shield. "That the movie didn't exactly receive hosannas in Europe should surprise absolutely no one. This is a Super-American movie," bristled Jeff Simon of Buffalo News. "It would be like...
- 5/25/2012
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • Shorter Jeff Simon: Movies keep getting worse and worse, and it's all the fault of critics, because they trash bad movies. Critics should share blame for run of bad movies • Even the critics who praise his work are stupid? Doctor Who And Sherlock Writer Steven Moffat Brands Critics 'Stupid' • Might as well just plug all in into the Matrix now and have it done with. Children addicted to television face a lifetime hooked to the box say doctors as they warn a generation risks brain damage • I love this bit: "'She's a great story,' Kirkwood told the Hollywood Reporter. 'Her rise…is almost like Great Expectations -- with a moral.'" Because, you know, Great Expectations has no moral. I'm sure Hollywood will give that hack Dickens what-for. 'Rocky' producer to make Rebekah Brooks film about the famed...
- 5/22/2012
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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