Cahiers du Cinemas 100 Greatest films

**bennocelt** · 02/12/2008, 1:42 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Not strange at all. ****e film. Nice little book but generally speaking british kitchen sink dramas are dpressingly boring. One paced throughout.

Oh, and don't listen to critics either bennocelt. Watch films and make up your own mind.

ah come on Dodge its an ace of a movie - That scene with the PE teacher is a classic

as for critics - well i do follow a few since if i was to follow TotalFilm etc i would be wasting a lot of time watching rubbish
Ross on BBC is another awful critic

**Dodge** · 02/12/2008, 1:48 PM

yeah, right enough you do get a feel for certain critics and usually find 1 or 2 that have similar tastes to yourself

**jebus** · 02/12/2008, 1:56 PM

Originally Posted by bennocelt

ah come on Dodge its an ace of a movie - That scene with the PE teacher is a classic

as for critics - well i do follow a few since if i was to follow TotalFilm etc i would be wasting a lot of time watching rubbish
Ross on BBC is another awful critic

When Ross praises a movie you generally have to look at things like who's financing the movie, are his friends in it, because he has genuinely bumped the box office takings for some duds in recent years.

To be honest I haven't found a critic that I would consider to have the same taste as me. Cosmo Landesman (sp?) is far too cynical for his own good, the staff at Empire are far too up Spielberg and Lucas's holes and some of the rest will throw 4 stars at anything. Any names you could point me towards to check out?

**gustavo** · 02/12/2008, 2:06 PM

What do you make of Roger Ebert?

I find him quite good but he does have a tendency to reveal quite a lot about the plot in his reviews

**ken foree** · 02/12/2008, 3:43 PM

emmanuel levy i've read a few times and agreed with. american critic.

failing that, try mr. cranky who operates on the assumption that ALL movies are crap with the least crap earning 1 bomb and going worse from there, through dynamite (godawful), and finally ending up at the worst form of cinematic drivel which earns the distinction of the mushroom cloud. he tears apart art-house pretension and hollowood blockbuster alike. quite funny, and a bit of commentary on some of the sillier aspects of criticism at the same time.

**John83** · 02/12/2008, 4:00 PM

I'm a big fan of Walter Chaw. He doesn't pull his punches and his taste is similar enough to mine that I take his opinons seriously.

**shakermaker1982** · 02/12/2008, 5:38 PM

Peter Bradshaw is usually spot on in my experience.

Empire's reviews are a joke at times and this is coming from a subscriber to the mag!

**Heliodorus** · 02/12/2008, 6:16 PM

Donald Clarke (free on The Irish Times website every friday as "The Ticket") is quite good and Michael Dwyer for the same publication has more esoteric tastes but is also worth checking out. The good thing about these two is that they review every movie released on screen or on dvd in Ireland.

**John83** · 02/12/2008, 7:47 PM

Yeah, they're not bad. I've seen Dwyer make some abominable errors though. I asked him about one of them once - he wrote something in his Dark Knight review which suggested he'd fallen asleep for some of it - and he claimed he'd already been told about it by a proof reader, but chose to keep it anyway for a complicated set of nonsensical reasons.

**bennocelt** · 03/12/2008, 1:49 PM

Originally Posted by jebus

When Ross praises a movie you generally have to look at things like who's financing the movie, are his friends in it, because he has genuinely bumped the box office takings for some duds in recent years.

To be honest I haven't found a critic that I would consider to have the same taste as me. Cosmo Landesman (sp?) is far too cynical for his own good, the staff at Empire are far too up Spielberg and Lucas's holes and some of the rest will throw 4 stars at anything. Any names you could point me towards to check out?

yeah there was that guy on the Daily Mirror that got into a lot of trouble over that - i cant think of his name but you always see him on C4 when they have their 1 to a 100 shows - he lost all creditablity over it

I like Mark Kermode, the guy who writes for the Daily mail is good, Ebert isn't bad, and what about the Shams fan Byrne in the Herald!

(someone mentioned Bradshaw!!! man the Guardian are great for football but rubbish for music and movie reviews - too up there own arse) - IMHO

**shakermaker1982** · 03/12/2008, 8:31 PM

Bennocelt - I'd agree with you on the guardian with respect to their music reviews but on the whole I'd say they are spot on with films. They won't go OTT if it's a big name director/film franchise unlike certain movie magazines.

**OwlsFan** · 04/12/2008, 3:41 PM

Originally Posted by jebus

What I'm saying is that if you took a poll of 100,000 people as to what the greatest movie is of all time and 14,000 said Titanic, whilst 3,000 said Citizen Kane then can we dismiss Titanic as a completely inferior movie?

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER was a far better "Titanic" film than the dross with Leonardo and company.

**thischarmingman** · 05/12/2008, 7:28 AM

Originally Posted by jebus

To be honest I haven't found a critic that I would consider to have the same taste as me. Cosmo Landesman (sp?) is far too cynical for his own good, the staff at Empire are far too up Spielberg and Lucas's holes and some of the rest will throw 4 stars at anything. Any names you could point me towards to check out?

I hate critics from the Cosmo 'Say the opposite of what other critics are saying for the sake of it it' Landesman school.