{"id":4119,"date":"2004-07-02T16:29:43","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T16:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2004-07-02T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T16:29:43","slug":"the_amazoncom_k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4119","title":{"rendered":"The Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waxy.org has a wonderful post about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/archive\/2004\/07\/01\/amazonco.shtml\">Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> Here&#8217;s a fun game&#8230; First, look up the most popular and critically-acclaimed books, movies, and music on Amazon. Click on &#8220;Customer Reviews,&#8221; and sort them by &#8220;Lowest Rating First.&#8221; Hilarity ensues! It&#8217;s the Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game!  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/\">Waxy.org<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the ones listed are hysterical.  Here&#8217;s one as an example:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000003N7G\/ref=cm_rev_sort\/102-3154905-5245705?show=%2Brating&#38;v=glance&#38;vi=customer-reviews&#38;s=music&#38;Go.x=16&#38;Go.y=18&#38;Go=Go\">John Coltrane, &#8220;A Love Supreme&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> &#8220;Coltrane&#8217;s A Love Supreme is the most overhyped jazz album in history. It is music? Maybe. But I find it to be unlistenable, despite several efforts to find something good in it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;The first number is torture if you like melodic music. There&#8217;s no connection between the phasing and the rhythm. Again, is this supposed to be clever?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;Nobody will care about the technical achievements of these guys in 100 years.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;I think about Kenny G., for instance. His rythmic session is much more regular, whereas Coltrane&#8217;s session seems sometimes to loose the beat.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my contribution: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00008972S\/ref=cm_rev_sort\/104-4201973-0627116?show=%2Brating&#38;v=glance&#38;vi=customer-reviews&#38;s=dvd&#38;Go.x=9&#38;Go.y=9\">West Side Story<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> I left this movie with the feeling of fairness what i mean by this is this movie was obviously given toooooooo much credit and really deserved LITTLE.I felt this movie was a rip off of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.The knife fight sequence even the backround music that went with it,oh and casting natalie wood,as i was watching this movie,scences of REBEL kept flashing in my mind. i would have enjoyed this movie if it was ORGINAL!ENOUGH SAID! <\/li>\n<li> The singing [stinks] and the characters barely talk. It is about a&#8230;girl who cares more about her evil lover than her brother&#8230;.. It&#8217;s a really terrible plot not worth spending to see<\/li>\n<li> There are several old movie musicals that hold up &#8230; this isn&#8217;t one! Some of the music is good, though enormously derivative, hence the one star. Two scenes have some life in them still: the &#8216;officer krupke&#8217; song and &#8216;america&#8217;. Everything else is tedious, unreal, awful, sappy &#8230; and it&#8217;s full of 35-year-old &#8216;teenagers&#8217;, this movie needs a remake: with a changed ending, the loss of a few songs, better choreography (it&#8217;s so bad now &#8230; I don&#8217;t understand my memory of it being exciting, at the time it came out &#8230;), and more reality: a better re-creation of that time &#8230; the directors did not have an eye for their own time at all!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waxy.org has a wonderful post about the Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game: Here&#8217;s a fun game&#8230; First, look up the most popular and critically-acclaimed books, movies, and music on Amazon. Click on &#8220;Customer Reviews,&#8221; and sort them by &#8220;Lowest Rating First.&#8221; Hilarity ensues! It&#8217;s the Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game! [Waxy.org] Some of the ones listed are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}