Website review – Comedy Movies
Written on October 13, 2010 – 7:02 pm | by coliver5
A website I look for to learn about movies is Entertainment Weekly. It doesn’t only give information on movies but gives an overview of different entertainment outlets such as music and television as well. One thing I like about this website though is that it gives a chart with all the movies currently at the box with a brief summary and the grade reviewers have given the movie. As a strength for the website, this gives readers an idea how good or bad a movie is before going further into reading it. They also give suggestions for movies to watch on DVD if viewers aren’t interested in going to the movies. This is helpful especially when there is nothing good to spend money at the movies. Something that is interesting is that some reviews have videos added of either interviews, trailers, or anything related to the movie being reviewed. Just like in the review for “The Social Network”.
A weakness can be that the focus is not only movies, which can lead readers to different sections as opposed to continue reading about movies. What I don’t like is that for the movies that are bad, reviews tend to be much shorter, which could be a weakness because it doesn’t give support to itself for saying why the movie is bad. For instance in the review for You Again, the review is really short, giving a brief summary of the movie and some bad parts of the movie but the only negative part is really saying that the idea of the movie is not new.
A movie that is better than “You Again” is Easy A.
With the section dedicated mainly for reviews, ideas for pitches could be to write a review for movies that have already come out. Similar to the section of older must-see movies. Basically this could be a review for a particular movie from the previous year. This can also be about a movie to avoid as opposed to a movie that should be watched.
Another idea for a pitch: for every bad movie have a review talking about the good parts of the movie.
Movies are always an easy way to escape reality and are entertaining as there are movies for all ages and groups. If you enjoy watching movies either at the movie theater, on netflix, or buying DVDs to watch at home, this website gives you an overview of what should actually be something worth your time.
2 Responses to “Website review – Comedy Movies”
This is a solid review. I really like the idea of reviewing a bad movie but finding the great parts about it. Every movie has to have some good parts.
EW has so much movie-related content that isn’t reviews, but I feel as though your post ignored all that. And you only had two pitches, one of which was just writing more reviews of old movies, which the site already has. Weak post. 7/10