Kicking the corpse of DELGO
December 26th, 2008 at 12:03pm Will Pfeifer
This week in his “My Year of Flops” series, Onion AV Club writer Nathan Rabin takes aim at the recent box office bomb DELGO. As he says, this computer-animated fantasy was no ordinary underperformer…
“Failed films are a dime a dozen but DELGO is perhaps the floppiest flop ever to saunter floppily into flopsville and become Dean Of Failure At Flopsville State University.”
Read his review here.
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4 Comments Add your own
1. ben | December 26th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
“Fathom maximized PR impact like a motherfucker and addressed the holy living fuck out of potential distribution concerns.” The previous quote is one of many similar passages in the article you linked your snipppet of original content to. Do you read these things before you link to them? Should we expect language like this in the print verion of the paper in the near future? Or, do we have a double standard that raunch and sleezey bad taste language are OK on the electronic version but not OK in the print version of the paper? I think you should have the same standards for both publications, and I would prefer that it be the higher standard.
2. ben | December 27th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Wonderful review!!! I especially appreciated the direct way in which the linked review expressed the writer’s opinions. I hope to see writing of this type througout the printed version of the paper soon.
3. Will Pfeifer | December 29th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Ben, you raise a good point on the language in the Onion column. I won’t stop linking to articles with profanity, but I will alert readers to the sometimes-salty vocabulary before I send them to certain links.
4. ben | December 29th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Will — Tha’s all I can ask. I’m personally not offended by much of anything, but it does seem fair to warn readers when they are likely to encounter something outside of the normal expectation for newspaper writing. It is sad when people’s vocabulary is so limited that they can’t find better ways to express themselves.
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