COMMON ISSUES WITH THE FILM REVIEWS:

COMMON ISSUES WITH THE FILM REVIEWS:

1. edit…I do not mean to fix run ons. Perhaps you do not know how to fix a run on. I mean edit. You do know the problem in the following sentence:

She ran through the forest in in her wedding dresses.

The film Star Wars, Based on a novel, is ahistorical. It does, however, capture a historical model of good of evil.

2. 1960s….not 1960’s

3. its versus it’s

4. transitions…

5. adverbs:

“The problem with adverbs is it lets people choose shitty verbs and nouns. One of those is going to be generic.” Matt Woodman

In order to write good stuff you have to hate adverbs.
(Theodore Roethke, quoted in The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke, by Allan Seager. McGraw-Hill, 1968)

Critic Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times has been lavish in her use of -ly adverbs, as have many of her colleagues at the newspaper. Some time ago she described a British novelist's prose as "engagingly demented." Legions of -ly locutions have followed over the years, including "casually authoritative" and "eye-crossingly voluminous." Meanwhile, her colleagues have come up with "beguilingly Boswellian" (Joseph J. Ellis), "laughably archival" (Dinitia Smith), "jesuitically contradictory" (Bruce Hrierson), and "genetically goofy" (David Carr).

Arts reviewers (and blurbists) everywhere seem enamored of the device, and little wonder; it offers an alternative to shopworn critical adjectives like brilliant, gripping, or plodding. It can also tweak such adjectives toward fresh meanings, as in yawningly brilliant.

(Arthur Plotnik, Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Punchier, More Engaging Language & Style. Random House, 2005)

"At their best, adverbs spice up a verb or adjective. At their worst, they express a meaning already contained in it" (Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer. Little, Brown and Company, 2006).

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they're like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day . . . fifty the day after that . . . and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they really are, but by then it's--GASP!!--too late.
(Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. Scribner, 2000)

We must eliminate adverbs, the old worn-out clasp which holds words tied to each other. The adverb preserves a monotonous character in a sentence.
(Futurist Manifesto, quoted by Zbigniew Folejewski in Futurism and Its Place in the Development of Modern Poetry. Univ. of Ottawa Press, 1980)

Sam Daniels: Alarmingly high fatality. All localized within a three mile radius. Incubation period: short. Appears contained. Alarmingly. Casey, you didn't put "alarmingly."
Casey Schuler: It's an adverb, Sam. It's a lazy tool of a weak mind.
(Dustin Hoffman and Kevin Spacey in the movie Outbreak, 1995)

How well [Evelyn Waugh] faces the problem of linking passages between the scenes. There is almost a complete absence of the beastly adverb--far more damaging to a writer than an adjective.
(Graham Greene, Ways of Escape. Simon & Schuster, 1980)

I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. . . . There are subtleties which I cannot master at all--they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me--and this adverb plague is one of them.
(Mark Twain, "The Contributors' Club." The Atlantic Monthly, June 1880)

Elmore Leonard, “To use an adverb this way (or almost any way) is a mortal sin.”

“Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn’t been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.”

–William Strunk and E.B. White

 HERE ARE SOME FROM YOUR ESSAYS:

…we vividly grasp

… it was extremely wrong

…very well done

…she continually states

…the filmmaker was shockingly honest.

…they seem to genuinely love her

…Evelyn ominously whispers, “Death is only the beginning.” (this one is acceptable)