Readers posts

From longtime reader Andrew Reed after seeing the David Simon quote I posted the other day, about the audience being a child:  

The best movies are not made with their audience in mind, but with their characters in mind.

— Andrew Reed (@reedrambles) January 4, 2018

He adds: “This is why The Big Sick worked so well, and why almost everything JJ Abrams has done does not.” Yep.

This arrived in my inbox while I was on vacation in Utah last week:

Please, quit bloviating about movies you haven't seen (Finest Hours) and pontificating about the box office of movies that don't deserve so much discussion (Batman v. Superman), get into the theater, and start writing insightful review essays, which is why I go to your blog.

Love bloviating/pontificating. And he got the “v” in “Batman v Superman” right. I've passed a few movie theaters where they added the “s.”