{"id":274,"date":"2007-08-21T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=274"},"modified":"2007-08-21T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T12:50:00","slug":"well-we-always-suspected-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Well, we always suspected this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=left>\n<p>I found an interesting quote from an entertainment biz article reporting on a study about the qualitative differences between critically praised films and films that are actually popular with the filmgoing public.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/mv\/news\/ap\/20070817\/118740672000.html\">http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/mv\/news\/ap\/20070817\/118740672000.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#00FF00\"><i>Such thinking and Simonton&#8217;s research prove something awards expert Tom O&#8217;Neil has long suspected: &#8220;Critics are supposed to be guiding American moviegoers. This study proves they&#8217;re taking their own esoteric side trip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Critics are academic types who want to prove how smart they are. They&#8217;re professional grouches who think a critic&#8217;s job is to be critical,&#8221; said O&#8217;Neil, columnist for theenvelope.com Web site. &#8220;Unfortunately, great critics tend to be social misfits with extraordinary powers of observation. Being misfits, they tend to bash sentimental movies because they remind them of a loving, nurturing world to which they do not belong.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found an interesting quote from an entertainment biz article reporting on a study about the qualitative differences between critically praised films and films that are actually popular with the filmgoing public. Source: http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/mv\/news\/ap\/20070817\/118740672000.html Such thinking and Simonton&#8217;s research prove &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}