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While visiting some of my favorite sites I came across this blog . The blogger tells us that:
I grew up in San Francisco reading the film reviews of Mick LaSalle. He’s reviewed films for The Chronicle for the last 20 years, writes in a pleasing, conversational tone, and his taste in films is respectable if not adventurous. At least that was my opinion until recently, when my brother forwarded me this rather embarrassing article cum confessional in which LaSalle admitted to having not seen several canonical American films and then proceeded to review a few of them for the first time.
To his deffence LaSalle says
Film critics see a lot of movies. But most film critics actually like movies, so that’s not so bad. In my leisure hours, I often watch movies, but those leisure hours are precious, so when I do watch a movie, it has to be something I really want to see. There are plenty of classics that I want to see, plenty that I’m excited to see, but then there are titles that seem merely obligatory - and it’s very easy to postpone seeing the obligatory ones, and to keep postponing them indefinitely.
Apparently LaSalle is not the only critic to do this. Jonathan Rossenblaum has admited to this to.
The blogger is somewhat taken aback by the disrespect LaSalle shows to his Job especialy in lor of the difficulty in finding such possitions now days, due to the mainstream media consolidation and syndication.
I have to agree. I think that if you have a job as great as that, dealing in peoples dreams come true and others dream potential - one must treat it with a little more respect or go home.
