Reply #57: You're mistaken. The critic denigrates art. He's not the artist.

[TexasObserver]

A critic is not an intellectual. A critic is not an artist. A critic is not an academic. A critic is not a scholar.

You're confusing critics with people who are successful in a field of endeavor. You're trying to make the movie critic a university scholar. Micheal Medved? Joel Segal? These are your heroes?!

Movie critics are largely buffoons, who write for a small segment of the population who thinks reading the reviews of critics is a worthy use of time, largely because they enjoy vicariously the pedantic haughtiness of such critics.

I don't even go to movies. I wait until they're on DVD. I give Netflix MY REVIEWS of films I like, and Netflix gives me the ratings by actual viewers for such films. I watch films like Gallipoli, Breaker Morant, The Killing Fields.

If I see this film, Dark Knight, it will be some time in the future, and I'll watch it for entertainment, not edification.