{"id":7929,"date":"2005-07-20T16:36:23","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T23:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/07\/20\/the-blurb-racket.html"},"modified":"2005-07-20T16:36:23","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T23:36:23","slug":"the_blurb_racke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/the_blurb_racke.html","title":{"rendered":"The Blurb Racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, you always suspected those movie review blurbs in movie ads were artfully punched up with elipses to make them sound better than even the most breathless reviewer could make them.  But here&#8217;s a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gelfmagazine.com\/mt\/archives\/blurb_racket_62405.html\" target=\"_blank\">rather egregious examples of Orwellian editing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\"><strong><em>The Talent Given Us<\/em><\/strong> (Daddy W Productions)<\/p>\n<p><u>Dennis Lim, Village Voice<\/u>: &#8220;Raw, fascinating &#8230; blessed with almost shockingly unselfconscious performances.&#8221;<br \/>\n<u>Actual line<\/u>: &#8220;This raw, fascinating, often unpleasant film is not in the least coy about its queasy mix of exploitation and therapeutic exhibitionism. A stunt premised on the unembarrassed supply of too much information, <em>The Talent Given Us<\/em> is blessed, if that&#8217;s the right word, with almost shockingly unselfconscious performances.&#8221;<br \/>\n<u>Not quoted<\/u>: &#8220;basically a glorified home movie&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Girl in the Caf&#233;<\/em><\/strong> (HBO)<\/p>\n<p><u>Oregonian<\/u>: &#8220;An endearing romantic comedy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<u>Actual line<\/u>: &#8220;This new offering from HBO Films is at its heart a bit of political propaganda wrapped into an endearing romantic comedy that starts losing its laughs when it gets to Reykjavik and decides its teachable moment has arrived.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A regular feature, the listing includes blurbs for movies, TV, theater, and books. <\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/07\/20\/how_movie_studios_mi.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, you always suspected those movie review blurbs in movie ads were artfully punched up with elipses to make them sound better than even the most breathless reviewer could make&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9639,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/19\/movie_quickies.html","url_meta":{"origin":7929,"position":0},"title":"Movie Quickies","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-May-06 3:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Goodies from Turner Classic Movies: Double Indemnity (1944): Billy Wilder directs (and Raymond Chandler co-writes), as a creepy Fred MacMurray falls for a nasty Barbara Stanwyck and agrees to help...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Movies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Movies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-movies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40287,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/05\/shockingly-there-is-no-starbu.html","url_meta":{"origin":7929,"position":1},"title":"Shockingly, there is no Starbu&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 5-Jan-14 11:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"Shockingly, there is no Starbucks in Las Vegas, NM! Madness! #OutOfFaerie","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27650,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/29\/shockingly-anti-muslim-outrage-sweeps-the-internet-over-a-gooftastic-story.html","url_meta":{"origin":7929,"position":2},"title":"Shockingly, anti-Muslim outrage sweeps the Internet over a gooftastic story!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 29-Apr-12 5:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Shockingly, anti-Muslim outrage sweeps the Internet over a gooftastic story!Because when you have (a) the Internet and (b) outrageous stories about (c) Muslims, who needs, y'know, actual fact-checking. If it breeds screeds, it leads! Embedded Link Egypt 'necrophilia law'? Hooey, utter hooey. 'Necrophilia law'? Don't believe everything you read on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17552,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/unblogged-bits-sun-6-jun-10-1400-3.html","url_meta":{"origin":7929,"position":3},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Sun.  6-Jun-10 1400)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-Jun-10 12:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... Battle Beyond The Stars - Man, I loved this movie. Given some of the talent behind it, that's not surprising in retrospect. A TV Commercial for a Comic? Why, I Never! - Sounds like\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Potpourri&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51784,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/ant-man-and-avoiding-spoliers-sweetie.html","url_meta":{"origin":7929,"position":4},"title":"&quot;Ant-Man&quot; and avoiding spoliers, sweetie","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 18-Jul-15 5:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I have to day, I was pleasantly surprised by being pleasantly surprised by a number of scenes in Ant-Man that could\/should have been spoiler-bait. I didn't exactly live under a rock for the last six months, but, aside from the intial movie trailer, have pretty much avoided as possible clicking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MV5BMjM2NTQ5Mzc2M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTcxMDI2NTE40._V1_SX640_SY720_5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":48672,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/06\/movie-review-wild-wild-west-1999-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":7929,"position":5},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Wild Wild West&quot; (1999)*","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-Dec-14 10:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"This movie gets worse every time I see it. Dubious on earlier viewings (http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/wild-wild-west\/), it isn't even aging well. Argh. For something loosely (in a \"post-apocalyptic mutant offspring\" fashion) based on a TV show I loved, this one makes me both slightly nauseous and deeply, deeply disappointed. A \u2605\u00bd review\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}