Comments on: Tell No One

By: Evan Derrick

Evan Derrick — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:17:19 +0000

Guys, I do understand how trackbacks work, but typically they are used to facilitate conversation between blogs. It’s an easy way to find out who is linking to you and vice versa. You posted a comment that linked back your site, but you failed to either 1) discuss anything that I had written or 2) mention my post/review in the article on your own site. Technically that isn’t spam, since you’re not using some kind of automated bot to mass post comments to blogs. But it’s not really a trackback either, since you were simply using my blog to post a link to your own. I’ll keep the “trackback this post” link on each page, but I’m still going to delete comments (and trackbacks) that aren’t actually interested in engaging with what I’ve written.

I would love, however, to collaborate with you someway in the future. I’m not sure what you had in mind, but you can find my email address at the top of the page.

Also, mad props for working a Dark Knight line into your comment.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:30:48 +0000

Hey Evan, guess u ticked off my friend, but u dont seem to know much about trackbacks firstly. Secondly, u have a “Trackback this Post” link on every post, so obviously people will trackback. Thridly, Wordpress won’t have this oldest feature if it were spam which apparently is not. Its being widely used by all bloggers on the net. Here is what Trackback actually means….

Trackback is used to tell the other blog that you link in your post, basically it just said “Hey your post is useful and put it on my blog“

So you know Ignorance is Bliss, so we are assuming that u have no clue about it, so thats that….Best thing is to remove the Trackback this post link on every post.

Why so serious? Without knowing anything without any reason accusing a reputable professional site of spamming. Now thats being really cheap.

We are both here for the same reason for cinema, why do you think your the only one trying to do something for Good Cinema. We want to have a collaboration of some way so that we could be beneficial to each other and help Cinema, thats the reason me and my friend are here. We enlighten people about films and we talk about films from all over the world.

So, if you would be kind enough, to add us on msn at sr_prem@hotmail.com or write down ur Email address so that we could talk about Cinema

Cheers

By: John

John — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:00:13 +0000

Firstly i would like to inform you that trackbacks are not spam. You need to know that first before you get messed around with that again. Secondly our site would love to help your site in any way possible. Like for instance we would like to reviews for your site for a price. We are pretty exclusive in our choice of film. We believe that cinema is an idealistic phenomenon. This is the reason why not all the movies will feature on our site. We sort of filter out the films we dont consider worthy. We dont write bad reviews for any of the films. We respect directors who take and put in a lot of work for their movies. For that reason we dont we have rankings. Most of our reviews as you can see our favorable. This is because of the choice of the movies. We only add movies we love period.

By: Evan Derrick

Evan Derrick — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:39:35 +0000

See, now you’re talking John. I do have to admit you guys have a pretty slick site going on there. Would love to hear more about your thoughts on cinema. That’s what this here internet thing is good for!

By: John

John — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:49:58 +0000

We would like to know more about your site if its cool with you. Please add me on gmail whenever you get the time. I would love to share my ideals and my love for cinema.

By: Evan Derrick

Evan Derrick — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:46:30 +0000

“Related to the movie” is just fancy talk for “contextual spam.” But thankyou for the apology. That, at least, shows a measure of class.

By: John

John — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:36:55 +0000

Sorry about the trackback from our site but it was related to the movie. Wont repeat it again. Take care.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:22:42 +0000

You and me are peas in a pod on this one, Evan.

Nobody can deny that chase sequence was awesome, though. The camerawork was especially impressive.

By: Rick Olson

Rick Olson — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:25:33 +0000

Think I’m gonna watch it as well. First one on the Netflix queue is a rotten egg …

By: Luke Harrington

Luke Harrington — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:25:04 +0000

I have to say that reading this review and the comments have gotten me really interested in the film. I imagine I’d probably enjoy it more than most you did…a good potboiler is hard to find.

By: Sam Juliano

Sam Juliano — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:44:05 +0000

Evan, I went even lower than your 3 and a half, (I gave it 2 and a half) but we are on the same page with it. I understand your ambivalence entirely, even if our reasons may not be quite the same. In my viewing I was simply unwilling to accept the convolutions of the story. Craig does have a point with that low simmer, and both he and Alexander wtote superb treatments of the film that I was fortunate to read. But what sets me apart (and you need to corroborate this) is that I found the film rather distancing, all the result of narrative suppositions that were non-negotiable.

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:06:16 +0000

I see what you’re saying how we responded to this movie completely differently, but came to the same star rating. Funny.

To me the beginning was enough, and Cluzet’s performance solidified it so I bought into it.

The things I liked best about the movie is how restrained it was. The American remake will over-emphasize the thriller elements I can almost guarantee it.

One of the reasons the relatively low tech chase was so good in this movie was because it was surprising. Up to that point, the film had been on kind of a low simmer with a threatening doom hanging over everything.

By: Evan Derrick

Evan Derrick — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:14:42 +0000

That emotional chord just didn’t resonate with me. At all. I wish it had, but it didn’t. Ho hum. It really is a great little thriller and will please anyone who takes the time to watch it, though. I can’t emphasize that enough, despite my reservations.

By: Alexander Coleman

Alexander Coleman — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:22:49 +0000

I love the first hour or so of Braveheart because it almost recalls the beauty of silent cinema. You’re right, the emotional beats are profound in that opening act, and its simple, pure cinematic pulchritude is terrific. But to me the film lost its way shortly thereafter, becoming a somewhat monotonous epic, which butchered history (but that’s not really one of my main criticisms).

I understand your problems with Tell No One, and I have some reservations myself about the limitations imposed on Canet in telling his story, but the emotional chord was moving in an ephemeral way that is difficult to manufacture.

Oh, and on a base note, I think Marie-Josee Croze is much more beautiful than Naomi Watts but that’s just me.

Now you’ve got to check out my review, Evan. We can keep trading posts on this sucker at each other’s blog, haha.