Did you have a bad day or something?

Lighten up. I didn\’t see either of the first two movies, but there\’s nothing wrong with a good cheap scare. As a matter of fact, it\’s a time honored tradition.

And if it scares the crap out of people and it\’s fun, then move along, OK? Who cares what it cost to make?

Sometimes a shitty film and/or a hack filmmaker just needs to be called out. I\’ll take it over the latest encomium to Ed Helms/Sundance poverty porn/mumblecore product.

I really like the Playlist, but posts like this feel as if they were written by an AICN commenter.

Man, the reason I was excited to watch Catfish in the first place was because you guys gave it a glowing review http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/09/review-catfish-is-intriguing.html

I guess Joost and Schulman weren\’t such bozos when they gave you exclusive interviews. http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/09/interview-documentarianstricksters.html

Also, if you don\’t see the correlation between these films and money well… the only reason they\’re making 12 of these or whatever is because they are low-cost, high return: highly profitable. It\’s not like they\’re making them for the art of things, though maybe the Catfish ones pulled out a better version than the 1st two according to Todd\’s review.

It was just to point out that if you had anything resembling an editor, he would\’ve pointed out that calling Joost and Schulman \’bozos\’ isn\’t really in tune with your blog\’s general views.

I understand that each piece was written by a different writer, but such inconsistencies really bring the site down, specially when it comes at the expense of cheap snark.

And please try to take this as feedback and not trolling.

You clearly state that in the review. But imagine you only posted Drew\’s positive Margaret review. An then, RP would go on and write a piece about the film\’s trailer, expressing his dislike, not mildly as he does in his review, but filled with grade A sarcasm. Wouldn\’t you feel that the blog comes off as slightly paranoid?

But not to totally act cool, I personally liked it when it came out and found it effectively thrilling… but there\’s a bad aftertaste, something very morally repulsive about the end product. And that kind of feeling doesn\’t really settle in right away (say, when you\’re to write a review of something). Not that I wrote the piece or even claim that the person who did hates it as well, just clarifying some things.

And what\’s with each movie adding more and more camera angles to it? I\’ll believe demons can possess people before I believe a middle-class family in 1988 could buy 15 Hi8 camcorders and set them all up on tripods (and cover their own conversations in multiple angles).

Now it\’s like an episode of Big Brother. Let me guess, the parents are in television or something and have access to tons of cameras, right?