Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Harry Potter

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Well, on rottentomatoes.com you get as many as 150 reviews and you can 
> see which are generally positive and which are generally negative.  
> You can look at some from both extremes.

I'm more interested with the median value than the extremes though. 
Critics aren't going to be around to long if they tend to give mostly 
centerline reviews but that's really the most useful kind. General "yeh 
this part sucks but overall it was okay" type of reviews rather than the 
whole "It really sucks!" or "It's great!" shit.

> Are they paid for endorsements?  How do you know that?

Probably most aren't directly but they are paid to say what's inline 
with their sponsors image. A critic writing for Disney Kids magazine 
sure as hell better not give a thumbs up to any movie even perceived as 
pornographic for instance. Many I'm sure certainly have friends within 
the industry and they're going to tend to say their friends stuff is 
great even if it isn't.. and of course the inverse for those they don't 
like. And then you get into the more regional critics that most 
definately praise whatever they're told to praise. Listen to the evening 
news and they might be praising 10.4 one night and trashing it the next 
night. I'd assume it depends on the individual critic though. I used to 
like Seiskel and Ebert because they didn't always (or usually) agree so 
even if I didn't agree with either of them I felt I had a more rounded 
view than from an individual critic.
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