And as the film bears out, the tone doesn\’t ring true at all hence the thoughts expressed in this post.

It\’s the idea that if Roger Ebert or some single blogger says \”Restless: Gus Van Sant\’s most unique film ever?\” and then it isn\’t, it would be weird for him to use titles for entires like \”relentless quirk fest \’restless\’\” without being like, \”Yo, I thought it was gonna be awesome, it kind of sucked, I was off.\” (and I totally may have missed that entry, and I\’ll eat my words if this has been explicitly clear elsewhere)

Or, I guess more specifically, if someone only read Gus Van Sant\’s \’Most Unique Film?\’ post two years ago and then went to see the movie and then said, \”Hey, that sucked\” and then went to the Playlist to say, \”Hey, that sucked,\” they\’d find posts like this and the perception might be, \”Yeah, we always knew it sucked,\” which I know isn\’t what you\’re saying, you use the word \”disappointed\” in this write up, but it could be accidentally perceived that way.

This is kind of a bullshit comment, and I really do appreciate all that you guys do. I know ThePlaylist was excited about the script and wanted to tell people and I think script reviews are great. It\’s just weird in the sort of anonymous landscape of the internet that an identity like The Playlist can often feel so fractured, as it is. I think a post (and, once again, maybe this has gone up in the past and I missed it) stating, \”Yo, we may have jumped the gun suggesting this could have been Van Sant\’s most unique film,\” or something like that, would make the site feel a bit more personal, less schizophrenic at times.

It\’s rare that this is even an issue for a site like you guys–you\’re usually dead-on in your predictions, as you were most notably with \”The Kids Are All Right\” last year. I was especially grateful that ya\’ll put that on my radar early.

You guys can totally just ignore this too as it is kind of bullshit and I understand that different writers for the site have different opinions.

I guess I just thought it was an interesting problem of multiple-writer blogs, or at least one worth discussing.

I don\’t know, I\’m just spitballing here.