Posted by David Thomsen on Apr 17, 2010 twenty to two am
I've read one review by Roger Ebert, and it was of Labyrinth. At one point he says is this:
"One of the key characters in this film is Toby (played by Toby Froud). Froud is a midget who has been given a Muppet head to wear."
I can't respect the opinion of someone who reviews a film while getting one key fact so blatantly wrong, so much so that I question whether he saw the film at all, or has just something that someone else about it. I'm also not interested in hearing why someone who has never played a computer game in his life thinks that computer games can never be art.
Games are meant to be played. It's like saying that music is not art if you've only ever read the score.
I admit that some of the examples he uses in his article are kind of weak (I'd refer him to the Submachine and Daymare Town flash games rather than Waco), but it would be just as easy to argue that films aren't art by using G.I. Joe as an example.
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Posted by David Thomsen on Apr 17, 2010 twenty to two am
"One of the key characters in this film is Toby (played by Toby Froud). Froud is a midget who has been given a Muppet head to wear."
I can't respect the opinion of someone who reviews a film while getting one key fact so blatantly wrong, so much so that I question whether he saw the film at all, or has just something that someone else about it. I'm also not interested in hearing why someone who has never played a computer game in his life thinks that computer games can never be art.
Games are meant to be played. It's like saying that music is not art if you've only ever read the score.
I admit that some of the examples he uses in his article are kind of weak (I'd refer him to the Submachine and Daymare Town flash games rather than Waco), but it would be just as easy to argue that films aren't art by using G.I. Joe as an example.