Cherry picking is an effective method of persuasion used by critics to prove a point. Now it's our turn."It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"I write to please myself and hope that it will please you, too."
-- Peter Rainer, film critic for The Christian Science Monitor
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CRITICIDE [KRIT-uh-sahyd] noun
1.) The killing of film criticism.
2.) a blog that insists that moviegoers everywhere figure out for themselves what they like and don't like without some pathetic hack telling them first.
1.) The killing of film criticism.
2.) a blog that insists that moviegoers everywhere figure out for themselves what they like and don't like without some pathetic hack telling them first.
