I went to see the venomerable (sorry) new Samuel L Jackson movie with a big group of friends. This was preceded by Snakes On A Cake and other goodies at Casa de Strangeboy. My better half was smart enough to skip the movie-watching part of the afternoon in favor of exercising her creativity at home (very smart, that one). Although I wouldn’t call it “good”, the movie was fun to watch with the group, hooting and hollering at all the right times, making fun of the really horrible stuff in it (some intentional, probably a great deal unintentional).
I don’t read a lot of movie reviews, especially for movies I am sure I’m going to watch, to keep my expectations non-existent. But when I do read reviews, I read the AV Club, whose reviews seem to most closely match mine. I just took a look at their review of the movie, which is pretty accurate. I also decided to follow the “Discuss” link at the bottom to see if anyone had anything to say. Lo and behold, they did.
The discussion, as of now, is pretty short, about 10 comments or so. But one of them is from the reviewer, responding to the first few people who accuse him of missing the point, being elitist and whatnot. His response, which I think is good reading, illustrates why I like the AV Club so much. Not only did he take the time to respond, but he was respectful of his readers, and also a bit funny.