Replace Bestsellers Lists

[Rejistania]

I don't know that the critics' opinions are any better than the marketers'. Critics seem to be looking for something different (in a book or a movie) than the average reader or viewer.

I don't know. I agree with others that critics can be blowhards, to show they are indeed artistes. But in terms of what they think is good or bad, they seem more right than not, and if the list took into account the lists of fifty critics, the individual quirks would (hopefully) be canceled out.

You only get the bias which is required to become a film critic.

[Yootopia]

Aye here's your problem - people who get paid to write about How Good Things Are often like or, more likely, pretend to like pretentious shit which the public 'doesn't get' to prove they need paying.

Critics didn't like Terminator 2 - a quite good film, and certainly an easy watch. Critics largely liked No Country For Old Men, which is a Cormac McCarthy book at heart and thus over-under-written. It made a film which was equally boring.

You're the second person in as many days I've heard Cormac McCarthy. Apparently he has a large anti-cult following which I never knew about.

Yeah, much like the Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises was quite good mind.