Posted by MichaelW. at proxy2-external.ganvil1.ga.home.com on November 27, 1999 at 11:10:05:
Hey all! This is my first post. I am true lover of the "New Jersey Trilogy +1" over and over0, atheist and all-around smart-ass. But This utterly pissed me off when I was looking for reviews of the outrageously great "Being John Malkovich". It can be found here
http://www.moviefone.com/?TP:FirstFeedback+DB:1+FP:WordOfMouthHome+FR:2+MID:AT+ZID:30071+UID:30A37563243+QD:today
but I can copy and paste, so here:
"Dogma
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are together again, this time with director Kevin Smith. Opinions of the film were wildly divergent -- moviegoers either loved it or hated it. We heard no lukewarm responses. Some of the younger people, who seemed to be more of the target audience, did not like the film. One woman said, "there were some good one liners but it was trying too hard to be clever." Given the wide range of feelings towards Dogma, it is hard to say what the overall opinion of the movie was."
Yeah, and pass the fucking rock so I can light up too. Do you people sincerely think the public has come to the point where "wide range" and "wildly divergent" are considered bad? WTF? And if "younger people" are the "target audience" why didn't we have a goddamn G-rating up there on the billboard? Unless of course "young people" is a comment from 80 year old Christian right asses that think things were "better in the day".
It is just really quite upsetting to see that a movie that has some much in such a short span of time (relatively) packed into it can seem, well, let's say what the "reviewers" didn't, WORDY. These people are the assholes in the Bone Collecter who are whispering that the lead sergant did it. Goddammit people, it's almost the 21th Century, time to start growing those brains we always talked about.
"Anyway, that's my opinoin. I could be wrong."
-Dennis Miller