Cranky Movie Reviews

Via mefi, check out the Reel Geezers. Two 80-something movie professionals reviewing current movies. All the reviews have a ton of spoilers, so I’d probably watch only if you’ve seen the movies in question, or don’t care about spoilers. They hit all the best picture nominees from ‘07:

And there are plenty more at their youtube channel.

I love the way they interact—lots of interrupting and telling each other the other one is wrong—but their reviews aren’t just cranky old-person rants. They’ve each got at least 40 years of movie- and TV-making experience, and base a lot of their criticisms and praise from that perspective. They discuss the narrative, character motivations, music choices, and acting (all the stuff you’d expect a critic to hit on, I suppose) really intelligently… and often crankily.

I love it.

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Vendar

By Vendar
June 11th, 2008

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