The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex: What's Wrong with Modern Movies?
by:
Mark Kermode (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099543497 (0099543494)
Publish date: October 10th 2012
Publisher: Random House UK
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Criticism,
Journalism,
Culture,
Film
Very entertaining. Mark Kermode captures the essence of the modern multiplex experience through a number of strands: Poor cinemagoer experience, poor Hollywood films, poor choice, and 97% irrelevant film critiques. Never less than vitriolic, cynical and suspicious of the motives of the modern cinema...
If you listen to Radio 5 every Friday afternoon from 2-4pm, and enjoy what you hear, then you will love this book. I don't claim to be any kind of film expert, I'm more of a casual cinema go-er, but if you fall in to either catergory then this book is a must read. This book documents the failure tha...