….Year-End Lists are Boring
1. Who really cares about looking at what was when a brand new spanking year is upon us. It’s movies we’ve seen, music we’ve heard, news that has happened, blah, blah, blah.
2. The format is always the same - top-10 or top-25 or top-100. So very creative, so compelling! It makes you want to read entire lists…NOT!
3. Lists are an excuse for journalistic laziness. It’s end of year, there’s not a lot of news happening so you need something to fill space. Hey, why not put together a year-end list because they take up a lot of space, they can be created in advance and there’s this strange belief that people actually read them.
4. They clearly pale in comparison with Four Reasons Why, which is funny, educational, irreverent and addictive - at least we think so.
More: If you one of those people into year-end lists, check out Google’s Zeitgeist. And here’s the New York Times’ A.O. Scott’s list of the best movies for 2007.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
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January 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
We need to be self-deprecating from time to time.