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.
Up until the punching, it was a real nice party.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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Polter-Cow - Mar 20, 2012 8:17:42 am PDT #18853 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jessica - Mar 20, 2012 8:23:02 am PDT #18854 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.]
megan walker - Mar 20, 2012 8:23:09 am PDT #18855 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
Jessica - Mar 20, 2012 8:26:47 am PDT #18856 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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?
megan walker - Mar 20, 2012 8:29:27 am PDT #18857 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2012 9:03:06 am PDT #18858 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DH says the press embargo was lifted last Friday after the junket.
So whose middling-to-negative reviews are they trying to stop?
le nubian - Mar 20, 2012 9:08:42 am PDT #18859 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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.
Jessica - Mar 20, 2012 9:12:43 am PDT #18860 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So whose middling-to-negative reviews are they trying to stop?
Apparently nobody's - I posted that before I asked him.
DavidS - Mar 20, 2012 2:53:24 pm PDT #18861 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Polter-Cow - Mar 20, 2012 3:01:38 pm PDT #18862 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Just got tickets for me and Mark to the advance screening in Berkeley! I'll have to finagle something with work to get there early enough.
Huh, just realized that Mark hasn't met Drew Goddard OR Amy Acker in his Whedonverse watching yet.