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April 30, 2009
Soderbergh on film crickets
Todd Hill of Staten Island Advance blogs part of an interview with Steven Soderbergh, where he talks about movie reviews. "I just don't read them. It's just not something that helps me at that point. First of all, I'm usually already two movies away from what they're looking at. They have a role, they just don't really have a role for me. I'm aware of the general critical response to 
something as it affects the business life of the film. If you make a film that's kind of a specialty film and you get trashed by everyone you're going to have a tough time trying to break through. It's like getting hit by a car and six months later somebody going, 'You shouldn't have stepped in front of that car.' Yeah, okay. Wish you had been there. I have nothing to say in response. The film is what it is... I'm sure we all have complex feelings about the Internet. On the one hand, in theory, if you write about movies you can go on the Internet and write a 5,000-word piece on something if you're so moved. The question is whether anybody will get to word 500 before they go, 'Oh Jesus, just tell me how many stars.' Culturally, that kind of question of whether there is a place for that kind of ruminative, complex criticism, that's an open question, and not just for cinema, for everything."
Posted by Ray Pride at April 30, 2009 12:49 PM
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