i hate to jinx it, but the positive press is promising. i have to think most of the people going to these advance screenings are fans, though, and so their view is skewed.
i hate to jinx it, but the positive press is promising. i have to think most of the people going to these advance screenings are fans, though, and so their view is skewed.
Very true, most are fans though there were a couple of reviewers in there, a few who always do advanced screening and that one who'd never seen a Chris Evans movie before.
Fans aside, the general audience are usually kinder to mainstream movies. Critics more often tend to prefer family dramas with a harder edge, more cynicism and maybe some bloodshed.
i hate to jinx it, but the positive press is promising. i have to think most of the people going to these advance screenings are fans, though, and so their view is skewed.
oh yeah, I don't expect critics to be kind to this movie, mostly because there was one reviewer, and he mentioned the acting was great, and the story overall was good but some twist were obvious and his biggest complain was the camera work, he didn't understan who was handling it. Those are important things for an overall of the movie
"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.” —Eckhart Tolle
Did you guys happen to see the very bottom of the Sharp Magazine interview there was a continuation about things that didn't appear in the magazine with a link to an interview with Jenny Slate where she talks about their relationship? Here's what it said along with the link to the Jenny Slate interview.
If You’d Like to Read About Chris Evans and Jenny Slate’s Breakup, Allow Us to Redirect You By: Greg Hudson|March 21, 2017 Tagged With: Celebrity, Chris Evans, Jenny Slate
It’s probably not surprising, given the kind of “journalism” I do, that I am not motivated by the thrill of the scoop. Sure, I liked it when my interview with George Saunders came out before he popped up in other magazines south of the border, but that wasn’t what made talking to him satisfying.
I don’t really have an eye for scoops. Take this story about a little snide remark Netflix CEO Reed Hastings made a press conference last week. I was at that press conference. I heard him say that joke about popcorn. It struck me as a tossed off bit of shade, maybe, but certainly not as something remotely newsworthy. And yet, here I am, linking to someone else’s story because I got scooped.
Meh.
It’s the same about asking celebrities about their romantic life, actually. Publicists are often wary of what questions we’ll ask stars. They want us to stick to the work, not get distracted by tabloid fodder. I wish I could say that their requests spark some internal debate, but they don’t. Mostly because getting stars to say something interesting is hard enough—why make it harder by asking questions they have no intention of answering sincerely. You’re at a press junket with Brad Pitt—you really think, after giving the same non-answer 27 times to journalists from around the planet, he’s going to open up and answer your question about his divorce?
Today we’re posting our cover story about Chris Evans. When I spoke with him, I knew that he had dated comedian Jenny Slate, who co-stars with him in the upcoming Gifted, but I didn’t ask him about it. Maybe I should have. Probably it would’ve led nowhere.
(As evidence, I can only offer a tidbit from the interview that didn’t make it into the final piece. He was talking about directing, and the lessons he learned while filming his first feature Before We Go. He said something about learning things he probably won’t share.
“I hope you realize that I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t ask you about that,” I said.
“And I respect that,” he said, “But, it’s going to be fruitless.” He wasn’t unkind, but I didn’t want to beg either.)
That being said, when celebrities do open up, it can make for some compelling reading. Which is why you should check out this piece about Jenny Slate from New York magazine. Think of it as a companion, though much broader, piece to our Chris Evans one. Yeah, it unpacks the relationship I didn’t ask Evans about, but in doing so it confirms some of the things I thought about Evans when we spoke. Namely, that he seems like a pretty decent guy.
Which is to say, I didn’t get the scoop on that, either.
He shouldn't worry about it, the scoop was never in his grasp. Esquire tried and it was off limits. His romantic life is always off limits in interviews. I was actually surprised Esquire got the sky diving anecdote about Jessica Biel and that's more than a decade in the past.
It hasn't and it's a pretty interesting interview even if the interviewer spent more time questioning himself about what it means to interview
It's also nice to see his perspective on Gifted.
I hate to read articles or interviews, in which the interviewer is so self involved in him/herself, that he/she ends up writing pages of analysing his/her persona during the interview, rather than talking about the person they interviewed... and this is what this article is about.... yeah, Chris is charming in the "Pratt spectrum" but what I get from this all, is that after talking to him he/she found him too normal to write a piece, the only remarcable thing was that as an actor, he is not actually dumb and he actually analysed politics through an interesting POV rather, the usual good vs evil, everyone is doing nowadays.. yet.... we, the general public, actually like normal too.. we don't need the charming Pratt, who can work around whatever with jokes or brooding Pine, as if he lived a hard artist's life... there are those who are normal people with their good od bad things, who actually act for a living, for those who it's "just a job".
O jenny's article, I like her, she is talented and what she said about chris is really nice, but I wonder why she had to give so much details.. she is free to do what she wants..but .... man!!
