{"id":74203,"date":"2011-11-03T09:01:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=74203"},"modified":"2011-11-10T10:04:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:04:10","slug":"the-things-some-movie-critics-say-t-do-thoughts-of-a-movie-journalist-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2011\/11\/03\/the-things-some-movie-critics-say-t-do-thoughts-of-a-movie-journalist-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things SOME Movie Critics Say &#038; Don&#8217;t Do: Thoughts of a Movie Journalist (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trust the critic with the blood-shot eyes. You know&#8230;the ones who stare at movie screens for countless hours a week. Not the ones who may have partaken in <em>Harold &#038; Kumar<\/em> related activities. Although some could do both if they have the stamina.<\/p>\n<p>Starting now, is when a critic\/movie reviewer&#8217;s mettle is put to the test. Award season is upon us and that means the twenty-something critic associations \u2013 with an array of members (print, online, radio, TV) &#8211; are about to get an eye-full from studios via a number of parcel handlers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the time of year where we (reviewers) begin our morning with answering a knock on the door by a person in uniform for the next forty days (and no, this is not a porno). Sometimes the contents of the delivery are welcomed, while others baffle the hell out of us (<em>Mars Needs Moms, The Tourist, Stone,<\/em> etc.). In the end though, they must be watched.<\/p>\n<p>And that brings us back to the title of this forthcoming <em>Jerry Maguire<\/em> moment; which in turn, will probably have me catching some flak from my fellow colleagues. Point is, my position is not just the right one&#8230;it should be the only one. If any other critic\/reviewer opposes the upcoming stance if you will, well, chances are their eyes are probably still showing an ample amount of whiteness.<\/p>\n<p>Now to be fair, some reviewers outside of these accredited critic circles are unable to view everything. And that&#8217;s fine to a certain extent, for the studios are not collecting their year-end votes. Now for the people involved in these privileged clans, we are usually asked to submit our lists\/votes prior to Christmas Day. In turn, and to help compile a list of candidates for possible nominations in the over-saturated award show circuit, the studios make sure we see every possible contender throughout the year, with the majority of them hitting theaters over the next two months.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, a few slip through the cracks (foreign language, short films); and when studios choose not to screen films throughout the year \u2013 because they usually will not be in the discussion \u2013 it&#8217;s impossible to see everything (though I still drag my ass out of bed on Friday mornings and head to the theater all while hounding the smaller distributors to get screeners. Yeah, I paid to see <em>Skyline<\/em>). I&#8217;ll admit it though; I didn&#8217;t see <em>Sucker Punch<\/em> this year (decided to interview Burt Reynolds instead) or<em> I Don&#8217;t Know How She Does It<\/em> (decided that Las Vegas was a better way to spend my time). Yet the products the studios do offer up should be seen barring unforeseen circumstances (in the hospital, death in the family, Montezuma&#8217;s revenge, vacation, grumpy editors don&#8217;t want to run it, studios slyly double-booking screenings, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Too many times over these last few years, I&#8217;ve read or have heard full-time critics, who are members of these stated associations, willfully skip films based on reasons such as, &#8220;no interest,&#8221; &#8220;it&#8217;s criticproof,&#8221; or my personal favorite, &#8220;it&#8217;s just more of the same crap.&#8221; Clearly, they are missing the point.<\/p>\n<p>You are a movie reviewer. You must see everything within reach to validate your opinion that you project onto your readers! Especially since we are asked to vote on the year&#8217;s content, whether its garbage or not. Was this past February&#8217;s <em>The Eagle<\/em> going to land on the award season radar? Highly doubtful. That said, go see it and learn why it will fail to be a part of these year-end chats. <\/p>\n<p>At times, there is so much arrogance coming from the realm of critics regarding what they choose to screen, it makes Rick &#8220;The Model&#8221; Martel look humble (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;biw=1138&#038;bih=518&#038;q=Rick%20%22The%20Model%22%20Martel&#038;gbv=2&#038;gs_sm=s&#038;gs_upl=412l412l0l1258l1l1l0l0l0l0l130l130l0.1l1l0&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=iw\" target=\"blank\">Google him<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Now will <em>Scream 4<\/em> ever be in consideration for a major award show in January\/February? Probably not; but you never know. Will a Jennifer Aniston rom-com ever receive a nomination for acting? Chances are slimmer than today&#8217;s pathetic reality stars passing up a shameless appearance at a local club; but hey&#8230; you never know.<\/p>\n<p>It all boils down the basic principle of voting for a candidate. If a person has any common sense, or integrity for that matter, they&#8217;ll want to hear all the candidates out to see who has the goods and who doesn&#8217;t. Same goes for films. If you don&#8217;t see everything that is offered up (not just &#8220;For Your Consideration&#8221;), then how in the bloody hell can you make an informed decision on what stands out in a given year? This gig (journalism) does not reflect the same work-ethic as say a doctor or a lawyer; where they&#8217;re allowed to focus on just a certain sector of their respective practice (they study all areas anyway). Sports writers don&#8217;t just analyze the team&#8217;s offense and disregard the defense right? <\/p>\n<p>This is the life you chose people of my ilk. We chose to be slaves to a screen and suffer through Jim Carrey playing with penguins, Uwe Boll directing&#8230;and Rob Zombie&#8217;s <em>Halloween II<\/em> vision. We chose to splurge on Digiorno&#8217;s Pizza for dinner, drive our same cars from college into the ground, and only update our wardrobe every three years. Step-Up (how many of you skipped that screening by the way) and embrace it! Or as comedian Chris Rock once posed, &#8220;Commitment? Or n___ p____?&#8221; (a.k.a profession). <\/p>\n<p>If this is your career; your passion; and what you want to do for the next 75 years (most modern-day journalists will not be filing for early retirement), then do it right. It&#8217;s not so much about the award contenders as it is about being loyal to the craft. Just because studios roll out the same fundamental horror and\/or romantic-comedy formula 9 times in a row doesn&#8217;t mean #10 might not be different? And it&#8217;s not like you have to write about every movie you see (although if your editor allows it, then pound it out), but at least see the sucker; especially when we never have to pay for any of them the majority of the time!<\/p>\n<p>So to close this out, it&#8217;s quite simple; if you&#8217;re going to pose as a film expert and attempt to guide your readers, listeners, viewers, etc., to worthwhile entertainment, much like life, you must make a worthy effort to experience everything to justify those said &#8220;expert opinions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t reflect every full-time critic out there by any means, which have the access to the flicks; but there&#8217;s enough floating around to warrant this motivated rant.  And just because they don&#8217;t write the volume as others do, does not suggest they are subpar writers; they&#8217;re just not complete movie critics\/reviews\/journalists (this line may lead to my Facebook friends declining just a bit). <\/p>\n<p>And now to close my blood shot eyes and prepare for the backlash. And hopefully do not polarize myself a la Jerry Maguire. But like my movie review approach, I&#8217;m game for anything and everything.<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully Yours,<\/p>\n<p>Joe Belcastro<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/floridafilmcriticscircle.webs.com\/apps\/members\/\">Member of the Florida Film Critics Circle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/jerry-maguire-tom-cruise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/jerry-maguire-tom-cruise.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry Maguire\" title=\"Jerry Maguire\" width=\"500\" height=\"277\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-74220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/jerry-maguire-tom-cruise.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/jerry-maguire-tom-cruise-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trust the critic with the blood-shot eyes. 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