Mark_Eichenlaub comments on SotW: Be Specific - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 April 2012 06:11AM

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Comment author: Mark_Eichenlaub 09 April 2012 11:50:35AM *  3 points [-]

Thanks for letting me know you found it out so quickly.

By specificity for the review, I didn't mean that it should summarize the plot. Instead, when some general statement is made, there should be some connection to the movie that supports it. Jimmy Stewart has boyish charm? When? What scenes? What about them?

Contrast to Roger Ebert's review. An excerpt:

Even the corniest scenes in the movie--those galaxies that wink while the heavens consult on George's fate--work because they are so disarmingly simple. A more sophisticated approach might have seemed labored.

This is a specific example supporting his statement at the beginning of the paragraph that, ""It's a Wonderful Life" is not just a heart-warming "message picture.""

Comment author: atorm 09 April 2012 07:31:02PM 0 points [-]

This clears up your point wonderfully.