Wednesday, March 23, 2005
HEY NEW BLOGGERS: HERE'S A TIP TO VAULT YOUR SITE'S TRAFFIC METER!
Better sit down for this shocker: movie blurbs can be misleading! Some blurb authors aren't real, and misquoted real authors get annoyed. But,
Unfortunately, we at Spitbull can't take advantage of this luscious opportunity; the last movie we watched was a used VHS tape of The Princess Bride we got from Half Price Books that caused our VCR to emit an annoying whine off and on throughout the movie. But at least the whine occasionally drowned out the incessent questions of our kids ("What's Iocaine?," "Who's the Man in Black?", "Why did he tell him to hit him with the rock?", etc.) So, all in all, I'd give it a Buy (the DVD, not the VHS) and Wait (until the kids are older) rating.
... others appear to be willing accomplices, consciously or unconsciously biased toward praising films because of the potential for career advancement, as Net-Monster notes: "Let's face it, the only way out of obscurity is to get your name seen by as many people as possible, and if you're Edgar Gnurdstone of WLSR in Kalamazoo Falls, a good way to achieve this is to write a glowing review of a movie you've seen. Better yet, write glowing reviews of absolutely awful films, and you increase your chances further since there won't be many good reviews for the ads to choose from."Traffic whores take note! Don't they say all advertising is moving blogward?
Unfortunately, we at Spitbull can't take advantage of this luscious opportunity; the last movie we watched was a used VHS tape of The Princess Bride we got from Half Price Books that caused our VCR to emit an annoying whine off and on throughout the movie. But at least the whine occasionally drowned out the incessent questions of our kids ("What's Iocaine?," "Who's the Man in Black?", "Why did he tell him to hit him with the rock?", etc.) So, all in all, I'd give it a Buy (the DVD, not the VHS) and Wait (until the kids are older) rating.
1 Comments:
HPB must have had two copies of The Princess Bride, cause I think I got the other. Heh.
