Critics, Hecklers, and Haters, Oh My!
source: http://theurbanian.com/2010/04/01/critics-hecklers-and-haters-oh-my/
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Late one night I was channel surfing and stumbled upon Heckler, a documentary made by Jamie Kennedy. Kennedy set forth on the making of this documentary after receiving harsh criticism for Son of the Mask. He goes on to talk to several different people, such as Lewis Black, Dave Attell, George Lucas, Carrot Top, David Cross, Tom Green, and many more about criticism.
The documentary seemed to clump together critics, hecklers, and haters. I always considered all three different things. I saw a critic as a professional, and one whom unbiassedly reviews music, film, etc. I thought a heckler mostly as a drunken buffoon, idiot, moron at a comedy show whom thinks they are better than everyone. And finally, a hater to me was a new breed of moron whom just hates for no apparent reason; maybe they do it because they think they are funny, or have no other way to express this weird passion in them. Some of the people in the documentary referred to critics as haters and that kind of bothered me. After thinking about it a little more though, I could understand where they were coming from because of the development of the internet and blogging.
The documentary seemed to clump together critics, hecklers, and haters. I always considered all three different things. I saw a critic as a professional, and one whom unbiassedly reviews music, film, etc. I thought a heckler mostly as a drunken buffoon, idiot, moron at a comedy show whom thinks they are better than everyone. And finally, a hater to me was a new breed of moron whom just hates for no apparent reason; maybe they do it because they think they are funny, or have no other way to express this weird passion in them. Some of the people in the documentary referred to critics as haters and that kind of bothered me. After thinking about it a little more though, I could understand where they were coming from because of the development of the internet and blogging.
