Media Research Failure/Film: Difference between revisions

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* There's been an assumption on the part of some of the reviewing public that ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]]'' is a [[Tim Burton]] film, due to both the animation style and the fact that the trailers hype it as being by "the director of ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]''". The director, for ''both'' films, is in fact Henry Selick, and Burton has nothing to do with ''Coraline''. Neil Gaiman, author of the original book, [http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/02/by-way-of-preamble.html has expressed his annoyance with this], and it's been [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02092009.shtml mocked] in webcomics.

** Neil Gaiman, fom the above blog entry:

{{quote| "It was irritating when people started asking me ''why'' the advertising said "From the director of ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''", and wasn't it some kind of a sneaky attempt to make people think that it was by Tim Burton?, and I would sigh, and say no, it was a sneaky attempt to make people think it was directed by the person who directed ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''. (And given that people were saying this about trailers that made a point of saying Henry's name, I had little patience with it.)"}}

{{quote|"It was irritating when people started asking me ''why'' the advertising said "From the director of ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''", and wasn't it some kind of a sneaky attempt to make people think that it was by Tim Burton?, and I would sigh, and say no, it was a sneaky attempt to make people think it was directed by the person who directed ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''. (And given that people were saying this about trailers that made a point of saying Henry's name, I had little patience with it.)"}}

** Another blame for this is the [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It]] for ''Nightmare''. (In other words, its full title is ''Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas''. Mind you, Burton was only responsible for the ''concept'' of that movie as he was busy directing ''[[Batman Returns]]'' at the same time.)

* Marcus Berkmann in the ''Daily Telegraph'' reviewed ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'' without, apparently, bothering to see the movie, as he confidently informed readers that Mr. Freeze was motivated to avenge the death of his wife, whereas in the movie the fact that his wife is very much alive (albeit, y'know, frozen) at the beginning and end of the film is an important plot point.

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** Let's not forget that Yojimbo itself was already sort of a remake of ''Red Harvest'' by Dashiell Hammett.

* A review of ''[[Dragon Ball Evolution|Dragonball: Evolution]]'' opened with the following informed lines.

{{quote| Another Japanese manga bites the dust with its cinematic adaptation: in this case, the "Dragonball Evolution" series.}}

{{quote|Another Japanese manga bites the dust with its cinematic adaptation: in this case, the "Dragonball Evolution" series.}}

* Ted Baehr's review of ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'' is littered with this sort of thing: by far the most hilarious is the lament that Rorschach is seen as a psychopath because he "believes in good and evil" and "truth and justice." Really? I'd have thought hurling a fake supervillain down an elevator shaft would have been more convincing evidence. Oh, and the review ends with a bilious rant on how the film "strongly affirms humanist, socialist, anti-American values promoting a socialist utopia where liberty, justice and goodness are destroyed for the sake of a totalitarian peace."

** [[Unfortunate Implications]] abound when Ted Baehr defends a violent neo-Fascist as believing in "truth and justice".