January 23, 2008

Film Critic Quote of the Week

Nathan Lee, of the Village Voice, on the vile "Untraceable":

"Untraceable being a movie about the effect of violence in the media, or whatever, each new murder scenario wraps quicker than the last, as hordes of new viewers log on to gawk at torture and snark it up on the message board. Damn you, media! Damn you, you!"
I saw this tonight, and let's just say it's the most anti-Web 2.0 movie of all time. Not only does it argue, laughably unconvincingly, that the next logical step after YouTube and MySpace is that a serial killer will emerge to use murder as "user-generated content," but that we're all complicit, should such a thing ever happen. Diane Lane sure is pretty, though.

Posted by Stephen Silver at January 23, 2008 12:38 AM
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