… and the other should be put to death.
Regarding Ridley Scott’s new movie, American Gangster…
Professional Movie Critic Jack Matthews: (likes the last 40 minutes) “but the film is 2 hours and 40 minutes long, and the runup, setup or whatever-up you want to call the first two hours is largely a drag.”
And…
Professional Movie Critic Jan Stuart: “the film begins to show its flab about two-thirds in”
One of these two men must be correct. They are both professionals. Newspapers pay them more than you and I will ever see in our lives to watch movies and tell us whether or not we should like them.
Either the movie fails in the first two-thirds or succeeds in the first two thirds.
One of them is correct and the other must die.
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Or perhaps we should shun movie/book/tv/game critics, read/watch/listen to the material ourselves, stop acting like sheep, and make up our own damn minds.