Thursday, September 18, 2008

Regarding The Previous Post

Oh, I’m gonna catch some flak for actually recommending that last one. The film in question (I can’t type the title anymore) holds a metascore of 55/100 at Metacritic. Yes, my score of 3/5 is only slightly higher than this. But movies are becoming just as susceptible to modern critical grade inflation as video games. (The scales are still different. The 65/100 for Microsoft’s “Too Human” is essentially a drawing of Calvin pissing on the game.)

The low score for this movie—okay, okay: “Baby Mama”—indicates a similar level of disgust. I think critics initially cringed at the high-concept-by-committee-ness of the whole thing. They punished Tina Fey et al for not making something as fresh and off-the-wall as “30 Rock.” (Very little is.) To be fair, most reviews did pick up on Steve Martin’s performance.

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