More reaction to the screenings (and Twitter)

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Jeff Wells continues to make me laugh. Oh and read the comment on that article by Gabe from The Playlist. Yes, remember that Playlist story?: These morons ;-) LOL! Gabe is the one who wrote the "against" piece.

Lynn Stairmaster at The Data Lounge's comments. (make sure you scroll down read through the thread for her other comments)

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Comments

[alligatorandme]

I don't think that story necessarily makes anyone a moron, but citing a Datalounge post is pretty hilarious.

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Well, Jeff Wells cited her (the Datalounge lady).

Really I'm trying to sort out who is a "real" critique and who isn't. Because so far we've mostly only heard from fans and film bloggers. I know there's an embargo but even on Twitter there wasn't much posted from more mainstream critics. There was a little.

But the fact remains NY is a theater town and a Warhorse scenario is entirely possible here. The first batch of critics were ecstatic about Warhorse the second ... not so much.

Re the moron comment. That was a little dramatic hyperbole. Seriously those guys didn't do their research in that article and there were a couple lines in it that made me size them up as immature frat boys:

1.) The way they knocked the film as being old: "a Broadway production your parents likely attended." Sure, Les Mis doesn't have the cool factor that often is needed to make a film successful but this is out right "Chronological Snobbery" on the part of Playlist and they can't even see that they are doing it. Tom O'Neil raised the same complaint

[alligatorandme]

I'm saying HIS citation of a datalounge post is pretty hilarious, not yours.

[digne]

*g* Thanks! (though frankly I'm a little worried about who some of those people I just quoted are)

And *EEK* we're both still up, you more so.

[litlover12]

ROFL at Gabe. Bitter much? The way he talks about theater, you'd think its existence was a crime against humanity.

[digne]

See now, he has some fair points (and some unfair ones). But he acts so childish about it that I lose all respect for him. Thus I laugh. ;-)