Comments on: The Bigger Picture: The Internet is Over(rated)

By: Christina Berg

Christina Berg — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:10:00 +0000

Not sure what to say here, back 10 years ago or so, folks read more on the internet before watching a movie offline, reading was done on commentators and websites more so than forums, youtube, and so on
perhaps too much opinions youtube here and there, etc gets folks lost, youtube was a revolution in the sense that finally americans had broadband and didn’t need their own cable tv channel to post videos, however it didn’t have the forum. layout, rotten tomatoes serious critique, internet is a wise tool, yet but a tool hard to imagine without, efficiency, less need to talk to folks to find out information all time who don’t know but then folks overlook first hand human knowledge, in addition smartphones have the affect of less serious devotion to the internet its more communication rather than research, critique, chat, discuss.

By: Christina Berg

Christina Berg — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:06:00 +0000

I don’t think so, however the internet and text messaging has changed socialization a bit, nothing wrong with an occassional text, but folks text in the middle of tv and movie and don’t interact.

By: Christina Berg

Christina Berg — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:06:00 +0000

I don’t think so, however the internet and text messaging has changed socialization a bit, nothing wrong with an occassional text, but folks text in the middle of tv and movie and don’t interact.

By: name

name — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:01:35 +0000

You're overrated. God blogs are so self-indulgent.

By: Startaster

Startaster — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:49:48 +0000

A refreshing and considerate point of view. Deserves a high rating, for sure.

By: Arend Anton

Arend Anton — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:59:43 +0000

I think we've all know our Duncans. Duncan himself probably had one at an earlier point in his life.

By: ben w

ben w — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:14:10 +0000

Bravo Arend! I have definitely known my share of Duncans. In fact, I still meet them on a day to day basis. I really enjoyed reading this.

By: Lance Berry

Lance Berry — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:26:29 +0000

The Internet has gone a long way toward desensitizing people to the feelings of others, as well as making people(particularly youth) more inept in how to deal with very important everyday face-to-face social situations which would prepare them for adulthood and how to interact with others that hold differing views. It has, in effect, corrupted the very meanings of “community” and “society”.

I also loved The Rocketeer, and felt it was very underappreciated when it came to theaters, and wish it had done better. It was just a lot of FUN, and how often do we get that in movies now?

By: Eric L.

Eric L. — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:42:03 +0000

I couldn't agree with you more. I would like to add the word “irrelevant” as in, “If you didn't like the Dark Knight you are irrelevant.” Or “U2 has become irrelevant.” It's essentially a way of totally dismissing someone's opinion without even hearing them out. Comments like that bring nothing to the table.

I wish there was a site about music that had the level of discourse of Roger Ebert's blog comment section.

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:19:25 +0000

Using your thoughts as a jumping off point, the worst part about the internet and it's effect on the movies goes beyond everyone being a 'cooler than thou' critic. Because producers want their movies to now be snark-proof, all the sentimentality and goofy joy that used to be in movies is quickly being bled out.

The degree of nihilism in even the most innocuous of superhero movies is rather disturbing. The coming-of-age flicks seem hell bent on racing to the sex and pot, whereas it seemed at one time like producers were waiting for the second reel so, at the very least, you were in the theater long enough not to get a refund. Now it's like there's a second-hand racing toward boobs and bongs, just to keep the jaded too-coolerati from texting negative press from their seats.

There's nothing wrong with The Rocketeer, except that they deviated way too far from the original comic. It was a fun little adventure flick, the likes of which we won't ever see again (if that committee meeting otherwise known as Indy 4 is any indication...)