Talk:Film criticism

message: I don’t know why SimonP is acting like the arbiter of relevancy for the Film Criticism page when he obviously doesn’t understand the difference between film criticism and movie reviews. The external links he eliminated were all links to journals or examples of film criticism; those he kept are all databases of movie reviews, except for the redundant master’s thesis on movie reviews and the link to “Big Picture Big Sound”, which looks to me like just a bunch of Google ads and two guys' opinions of some movies they watched. I’ve removed these two arbitrary links, and reinstated the external links SimonP poo-pooed, save the Upperstall and Midnight Eye links, which seem more appropriate on an Indian and Japanese cinema page, respectively. In any case, it seems pertinent for a page called “Film Criticism” to have some external links to actual criticism and not just to Ebert and his merry band of plot recapitulators.Sinlechuga 18:06, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links to actual film criticism 

message: This section of the article lists David Walsh.  Is he really so notable?  He writes for the World Socialist Web Site, a Trotskyist rag, but I'm not sure if his work is widely read or even known outside the Trotskyist community. —Psychonaut 07:29, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable film critics 

message: The just-added "Criticism of Criticism" section refers to no authoritative sources and is not very well argued. I was going to delete it, but I thought I'd check first to see if anyone could support the points it makes. --Jeremy Butler 12:01, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not something that I would be surprised at if it were true, but I can't verify it off the top of my head. Perhaps it would be best to move it here from out of the main article until it can be sourced? As it stands right now, the arguement rests on a straw man. Gershwinrb 09:17, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism of Criticism section 

message: (Note : this suggestion has also been posted on Film theory. Actually, I don't know where this request fits best).
It would be cool to provide an (almost) exhaustive list of what can be discussed in a movie, as well as examples of typical movies of such styles.
Example : 
* Rythm : alternance of quiet and active times (or whatever :-). Example of a movie with a remarkable rythm : The big sleep
* Field depth : See main article field depth. Example of a movie with low field depth : whatever. Example of notable field depth effects : whatever
Thanks.
King mike 07:41, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elements of style in a movie 

message: I've just cleaned out the External Links section -- deleting sites that appeared to be vanity projects or otherwise not-notable review sites. If anyone can make a case for any of the deleted sites, please do so here. --Jeremy Butler 10:53, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links Clean Up 

message: While agreeing that links to individiual critics/journals are superfluous, I think the sites that are ABOUT film criticism (e.g., rottentomatoes.com) are pertinent.  They help a reader understand what criticism involves and what different types of criticism are available. --Jeremy Butler 11:33, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: The list of notable journalistic critics is, I feel, terribly Anglo-centric. Also makes me wonder why Truffaut has been included in academic critics, whereas he was, as far as I know, anything but academic. Naphra 05:24, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable critics 

message: In advertisements for Smoking Aces, a quote from a negative New York Times review, in which the quote had been used in a negative light, was cast positively.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.69.118.1 (talk) 20:45, August 23, 2007 (UTC) 
: I think that would be a good idea if anyone cares enough to add it to the article but any mention of quote whoring would need to mention the apotheosis of that phenomenon, an entirely fictitious film critic: David Manning (fictitious writer). -- 109.77.213.49 (talk) 14:46, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote Whoring Addition? 

message: low!!! muzta Uhh@!!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.28.8.20 (talk) 07:51, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  low  

message: I was surprised that this article does not have a Controversy section, considering the overall public negativity towards the movie critics (including notable actors, directors and so on). This is just not typical for an article about such a hated group of people.Preslavk (talk) 02:13, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy 

message: I can't help but look at the criticism section and wonder how the films were chosen, except to conclude they were put in by an Avatar fan enraged by the fact that Hurt Locker beat Avatar to best film in the Academy Awards. Could I perhaps put in an art house example that is actually art house? 77.101.60.220 (talk) 19:44, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I may just re-word it all to give appropriate context (the issue won't have much relevance without context in a year or two), and change Hurt Locker's description from art house to that of a film that simply didn't achieve major box-office success. 77.101.60.220 (talk) 19:51, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange examples 

message: I think this article should clearly describe the difference between the definition of film critic and film review first. It confused because the first section of the definition of “film critic” describes “film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism and academic criticism,” the section of journalistic criticism contains “Online film reviews” section. There is no explanation and citation why online film review is included in film critic so that this article is written like editor’s personal opinion about a topic. Also, this definition of film criticism on this article does not contain any citations so that this definition seems like an unreliable and generalized. The amount of information of Academic criticism section is too small compared to Journalistic criticism. I think this article needs more citations for verification. 01:20, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film review and film critic 

message: Is film appreciation a term to be included in this article or is it a very different thing, sufficiently different to create another article? Thanks, regards! Correogsk or Gustavo (Editrocito or Heme aquí) 18:45, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: About film appreciation

message: — Assignment last updated by Moillet (talk) 14:12, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Media Innovations

message: you know a lot of films these critics say sucked i watched them myself and they were awesome
and here is the kicker i am young these old peoplewho dish out so much negativivty towards evrything nowadays they just want things to go back to the old days during there time and its not just the movie franchise getting negativity from old farts the church industries are recieving it as well i fort one am sick and tired of so much negativity 2601:402:C202:C990:A9AC:6AC7:ED0:9AB7 (talk) 03:18, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  old people and there love for being negative