Saturday, January 19, 2008

Critique on Critics

If you want to become a critic, all you have to do is talk about something/someone negatively. Yes, just take a look at the wrongs of your topic and voila!!!
You're an instant critic!!!
(At this moment, I'm warning you that you might just get pissed and bored so I advice you to quit reading...)
That's what's becoming common about critics (or those who claim as so) nowadays. You write about something or someone focusing on the mistakes done and it's already what we call criticizing (this word probably make them think so).
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2007-2008), A critic is the "one who expresses a reasoned opinion on any matter especially involving a judgment of its value, truth, righteousness, beauty, or technique" or "one who engages often professionally in the analysis, evaluation, or appreciation of works of art or artistic performances". This means that the critic's job is to evaluate a certain stuff.
To make things a little easy to understand, I shall have movie critics as examples. I've read a lot of movie critics and I came to a point to doubt their opinions because I noticed how negative critics are nowadays. The critics nowadays would intend to watch a movie and trace every single flaws in it.
It's like watching a circus and merely waiting for the man in the flying trapeze to fall. My point is, we don't pay attention to the good points of a movie instead we only look at the flaws in it--and that is what they call evaluating!!
I mean, they would write down reviews of a movie and write only what's not good about it. And that writer thinks he has observed well by merely seeing the mistakes committed and omitted in a movie.
How helpful it si for the reader to have a clue of what to expect in a movie.
There were also critics presented on television just a few weeks ago. It was about the fashion "do's and don't's". They would be given some stuffs (tiara, skinny jeans or hair do's for example) to evaluate and say if it were a 'do' or a 'don't'.
95% of the stuffs in the show were 'don'ts' actually (I don't know if the producers of the show were aware of it). But if you were to see some of the items, they were fine and generally accepted in public. But who am I to react, I ain't no fashion expert. But the thing is, they could've entitled it as "fashion don'ts" instead. I even noticed how much the critics lost words (negative words in particular) to do things wrong. They became poor of words to use.
Why can't they evaluate for real and quit on merely looking at things pessimistically? Isn't it important that we are aware of what's wrong and what's right instead of only knowing what's wrong or what's right ? There isn't any balance.
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Hey, check it out!! Read from top to here----I'm a fucking critic!!! BWAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!