She Treads Softly

Sunday, January 18, 2009

This weekend's movies include:

Romance on the High Seas, with Doris Day

I love Doris Day and smiled through the whole movie

Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
We've finished our Tremors four movie attack pack

Metropolis
Movie Dude, my nephew, wanted to see this silent classic

Sam Katzman's The Werewolf

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
We decided to watch it again this weekend with Movie Dude

and of course, more X-Files
We're on season 2, but may finish it Sunday night. As Just Me so aptly noted, the X-Files are really so much more enjoyable without commercials for the hover-round, rascal scooter, and the AARP.

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John Updike's six rules for reviewing:

1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

2. Give him enough direct quotation--at least one extended passage--of the book's prose so the review's reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste.

3. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis.

4. Go easy on plot summary, and do not give away the ending.

5. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author's oeuvre or elsewhere. Try to understand the failure. Sure it's his and not yours?

To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser.....Review the book, not the reputation.... Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys in reading, and all our discriminations should curve toward that end.