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James Berardinelli
Personal blog · reelviews.netculture
James Berardinelli writes Reelviews Movie Reviews, a personal blog at reelviews.net about culture. Since 2007, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters read James Berardinelli's film reviews for their consistency and close match to Roger Ebert's taste, though one finds his prose style weaker than his reviews.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Extented Reviews from James Berardinelli. Approved as a critic by Rotten Tomatoes. Fantasy novelist.
What Hacker News says?
Last few years, I have liked reviews by Berardinelli. If I remember correctly he has an engineering background (and I think has designed the site himself... not as polished as some others). Not great prose/writing style. But reviews are good. https://www.reelviews.net
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on “Scraping Roger Ebert’s reviews and finding his favorite movies on Amazon Prime”Submitted Movie Review: Blackberry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes, cliché implies an overused trope; in Heat, all the female characters are clichés; most of the male characters are too (the main two, the exhausted but determined cop, and the super-pro bank robber, certainly are); and so are the situations and plot developments. The "one-last-big-score-that-goes-wrong" is so cliché it should be legislated against. Everything in that movie is utterly predictable. As for movie cr…
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on “Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (2018)”What I liked about Ebert is that he seemed consistent, and that's what I want in a critic. I found that often I disagreed with him, but my disagreement was predictable . So usually I could translate his low or high rating to my personal enjoyment. The critic that seems to be most compatible to my tastes, and relatively close to Ebert, is James Berardinelli from http://www.reelviews.net . I almost never feel differen…
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on “Why 3D doesn't work and never will (2011)”Film Critic James Berardinelli has been saying this for ages. He just posted another article about it actually, and made one important point the ars article doesn't. http://reelviews.net/reelthoughts/august_2007.html The problem faced by high def DVD is that consumers won't wait for the format war to end. They'll bypass it for the Next Big Thing. That will likely be high def downloads. At this point, there are four…
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on “The battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray might screw both of them”
