Comments on: TIFF Review: Solomon Kane

By: Kasper

Kasper — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:35:00 +0000

I really enjoy your writing Greg, though you excel at the more entertainment minded stuff and less at writing dry and focused review stuff. I’d love to see more articles from you in the future ala Greg At The Movies or something of the sort, because your TIFF reports are excellent and very entertaining, you’re a good storyteller.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:48:31 +0000

I only compared Purefoy to the Governator. I never compared the movie to Conan. I love Conan the Barbarian.

I appreciate the constructive criticism, but reviews really aren’t my thing anyway. They aren’t easy to write for me and you’re right that they aren’t very good. Sean suggested I write some and of course I’m happy to oblige. Jay and Sean are the pros at writing reviews.

I do the best that I can and it’s unfortunate that I can’t please everyone. I’ll try to write a couple more and if they get a thumbs down, I’ll hang up my review pen.

Thanks for reading and your posts.

By: bullet3

bullet3 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:42:16 +0000

Well the general opinion outside Greg’s on this movie has been very positive. I think Greg’s just not really a fan of these kinds of fantasy genre movies (judging by many of the reviews I’ve seen him give). As previously mentioned, you blame it for straying to close to Conan the Barbarian, but that movie’s an absolute classic, so that’s not much of a criticism.

By: modesilver

modesilver — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:02:14 +0000

Well it’s not just this review Greg. I found your other reviews contain more info about the plot and less about how you actually felt about the movie. Tip the scale the other way buddy

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:50:55 +0000

This is the proper post. Sorry about that.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:36:15 +0000

Hmm, seems something went amiss with my copy and paste performance here. There’s a whole paragraph missing. I’m not sure how I missed that. I may need to re-write this.

By: Waldgeist

Waldgeist — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:04:41 +0000

Mh… your “review” is more off a summary with a dashing opinion at the end about the quality with no real evidence of what you actually dislike about it, because you compare it to Conan The Barbarian a wonderfull classic of the fantasy genre and surely not a 1 star movie, so… what is the problem with this one?

By: Reed-tard

Reed-tard — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:28:02 +0000

This wasn’t a review in my opinion. You never come with any points that says why you didn’t like the movie, or why you did like it. It’s too short…-

By: BigHungry

BigHungry — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:22:35 +0000

I had high hopes for this one.

By: Slushie Man

Slushie Man — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:37:26 +0000

Oh, nevermind. I just read on another post that you don’t really care for giving a score and only do it cause you have to. I guess you can ignore my comment then, lol.

By: Slushie Man

Slushie Man — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:33:48 +0000

Hmmm, your score doesn’t really match up with your review, IMO. But then again, I guess that’s a problem with the 4-Star system, but still, I think 2/4 would fit better with the words in your review as to me, Typical doesn’t mean bad, it means average.