'Out Of Gas'
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So professional reviewers are a significant overlap with bloggers? Because obviously fandom is, and it must be the professional reviews they're trying to hush up.
Wait, or are they, Megan? Is there an official restriction on when an "official" critic is allowed to publish? Is it the same as the blogging date?
Is there an official restriction on when an "official" critic is allowed to publish?
Well, clearly not, since there are 34 Fresh and 1 Rotten review on RT.
DH says the press embargo was lifted last Friday after the junket.
[eta: And the screening in NYC was last night, so a lot of reviews are coming out this morning.]
It's very confusing and ridiculous because, for example, the L.A. embargo ends today. The general advance screening is Wednesday in SF, but they had a special press only screening last night (maybe 50 people I'd say) at the ILM campus. They bagged and tagged our phones and we were supposed to sign an NDA but I guess they waived that last minute. Plus ones were severely restricted. It is very unusual to have the embargo until the release date, but I went with a critic from the SF Film Critics Circle and I don't want to screw up his relationship with the publicists.
It's very confusing and ridiculous because, for example, the L.A. embargo ends today.
That's completely absurd - why do it by location when everything is online these days?
Thatis a pretty odd thing not to make clear. It's one of the more horrifying aspects of the ending
Yes, I just don't think non-readers will get the full horror of it or the same takeaway of the moral issues that are in the book, especially since the way they play up the reality TV angle makes it seems everyone is complicit. Although, the brutal depiction of the cornucopia certainly makes you sit up and take notice.
DH says the press embargo was lifted last Friday after the junket.
So whose middling-to-negative reviews are they trying to stop?
megan,
yes. the book is already bad enough with kids killing kids for entertainment and to remind the populace not to rise up against the government. and then the place is booby trapped. so that's bad. but THEN you get that they took the dead kids and made them into beasts to kill the remaining kids. I mean, WTF?
That's when I said to myself in the book: this shit is REALLY fucked up.
So whose middling-to-negative reviews are they trying to stop?
Apparently nobody's - I posted that before I asked him.
Annalee Newitz post on FB:
On the bright side, I just saw CABIN IN THE WOODS and it was magnificent. It was meta all the way down, man. Plus, hilarious.