Comments on: The Movie Blog Uncut – March 5th 2007

By: {ph[oe]nix}

{ph[oe]nix} — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:44:00 +0000

Hi guys. Just wanted to take the time to say, I still love the show, and am enjoying the live format. Here are the two things I’m not keen on:

1) The live feedback from users is great, but can be annoying and distracting when people get inturrupted mid-sentence by what someone has said.

2) The sound quality of the live braodcasts is utter shit, I hate it. Is there anything that can be done to make it better?

I Love you all like Doug loves his squash.

By: Goggs

Goggs — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:18:18 +0000

I don’t think that the Monday round table should be live. Personally I’m not a huge fan of the new live format but perhaps that’s because it’s still in its infancy and I’ve got to get used to it. The sound quality isn’t that great and the constant interruptions with comments from the boards can make it difficult to listen to. I’m still going to listen to see what’s going on but please return the at least the Monday show back to it’s original format. Darren being constantly interrupted seemed a bit rude to me as he never really got to make his point and I think that Bruxy only spoke a couple of times and usually he’s got some excellent thoughts on the topics (don’t know if that’s because he wasn’t particularly talkative or found it hard to get a word in past all the comments that kept getting brought up at random times. Anyway, I look forward to the next show and keep up the great work.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:49:32 +0000

John/Gio & Alfie:

As close to imperical data as you can get (or you can drop him an email, he responds quite well) on this subject would be David Poland at the Movie City News website. It’s a topic he brings up many, many times. I bet if you emailed him, he may be willing to throw some data your way to settle it.

By: John Campea

John Campea — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:57:38 +0000

Sigh, Alfie,

Once again you’re just repeating yourself with an argument I’ve already nullified before,

My position is that if Norbit got great reviews, it would have made MORE money, same with Ghost Rider and Wild Hogs… People DO listen to critics to a degree. It’s a fact.

You have no imperical data to refute that, so don’t bother trying. You can say “I disagree”, and that’s fine…. but that’s all you can say

By: alfie

alfie — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:36:48 +0000

oh and gio as for your comment that “its cool and all the rage to say you don’t listen to critics”….

it isn’t cool or all the rage to not listen to critics…its just a fact.

go and look at the films that have been number one so far this year…

norbit 10%
ghost rider 27%
wild fucking hogs 19%
epic movie 2%

if people are listening to critics they have a funny way of showing it – this week alone we have wild hogs open up against zodiac which has 83% on rotten tomatoes versus wild hogs 19% and it beat it by about 20 million dollars…..

people are going to go and see what they want to see regardless of what critics say…..

By: Nick Paramonte

Nick Paramonte — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:36:14 +0000

Amen to your comment Nagy.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:57:07 +0000

John/Gio, I knew you used to live in Saskatoon which is why I said it. I’m an attention whore. It’s one of the reasons I found themovieblog to begin with.

And other Kurt, I am German which is how I ended up with the K not C.

Also, Firefox is the tool of the devil. I hate it. A lot.

Cheers :)

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:49:59 +0000

Doh, now I’m posting as Triflic. Damn Firefox Autofill!

By: Triflic

Triflic — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:48:39 +0000

Hey Kurt, no problem. I typed that more out of surprise than anything else (I’ve not listened to the podcast yet) – A) because my name is not that common on English speaking websites (more in Germany) and B) Especially Movie Websites. C) You signed of with “Cheers.” something I’m also want to do.

Weird. I was in Manitoba in 1998, Winnepeg only though. Home of one of my favorite filmmakers, Guy Maddin.

By: alfie

alfie — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:46:13 +0000

gio….

300 just plummeted massively from 100% to 60% on rotten tomatoes…..

…..one more percent and it slips to a rotten rating…..

just wanted to point that out…..because I am a class A dick!!

haha

love the live show…its more frantic and immediate…..keep it up

By: John Campea

John Campea — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:41:55 +0000

i used to live in Saskatoon

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:39:20 +0000

Kurt from Twitchfilm, how do I know you’re not MY doppleganger?

Also, I live in Saskatoon and have commented on Doug’s blog more than here. What about you?