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Jul. 6th, 2003 11:01 amOn the 28 Days Later website, is an area called testimonials, that has both critic and fan reviews. The fan reviews are unedited or filtered by the maintainers of the site, and they are a stunning example of why anyone who wants to do anything remotely creative has to be absolutely out of their fucking mind.
No, my issue isn't that some people loathed this film (some people will -- it's grotesque, long, the first third is almost entirely silent, the plot definitely has three very different acts, it's not a typical horror film, and digital video, while serving the story well isn't what we're used to on the big screen, etc). My issue is that nearly everyone who posted, regardless of whether they were in favour of the film or not, couldn't construct a sentence in the English language if their life depended on it. My issue is that, at least fifty percent of the commetary said things like (and these my friends, are actual quotes):
"it was like watching Giligan's Island, a far more messed up situation", "I don't know how, but this english artsy fartsy fucked up a zombie movie... this just goes to show that independent film and the english eat shit" "the film was very european and unscary" and finally "this is a gay resident evil rip off." Also to the dude who said Shakespear [sic] couldn't write such irony, IT'S NOT FUCKING IRONIC.
Anyway, the whole thing made me depressed. You make art for, among other things, the audience, but if the audience has the IQ of a toadstool and will hate you forever if you don't provide them with exactly what they expect, you are damned damned damned.
Our culture is astoundingly fucking lazy about everything. And hateful. That's what really amazed me, how much of the things on the site were about slagging people and things that had nothing to do with the film, or saying things like "I wish I had me a woman like the one in the movie."
*shudder*
No, my issue isn't that some people loathed this film (some people will -- it's grotesque, long, the first third is almost entirely silent, the plot definitely has three very different acts, it's not a typical horror film, and digital video, while serving the story well isn't what we're used to on the big screen, etc). My issue is that nearly everyone who posted, regardless of whether they were in favour of the film or not, couldn't construct a sentence in the English language if their life depended on it. My issue is that, at least fifty percent of the commetary said things like (and these my friends, are actual quotes):
"it was like watching Giligan's Island, a far more messed up situation", "I don't know how, but this english artsy fartsy fucked up a zombie movie... this just goes to show that independent film and the english eat shit" "the film was very european and unscary" and finally "this is a gay resident evil rip off." Also to the dude who said Shakespear [sic] couldn't write such irony, IT'S NOT FUCKING IRONIC.
Anyway, the whole thing made me depressed. You make art for, among other things, the audience, but if the audience has the IQ of a toadstool and will hate you forever if you don't provide them with exactly what they expect, you are damned damned damned.
Our culture is astoundingly fucking lazy about everything. And hateful. That's what really amazed me, how much of the things on the site were about slagging people and things that had nothing to do with the film, or saying things like "I wish I had me a woman like the one in the movie."
*shudder*
