James Monroe genie hype?- Page 2

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/28/14 at 9:32am

His point was to create a thread in which negative things would accumulate against a single performer.

[darreyl102]

Posted: 7/28/14 at 9:45am

@ Gomez3 - You don't have to defend yourself- You have a right to your opinion and the right to express it.

Updated On: 7/28/14 at 09:45 AM

[Gomez3]

Posted: 7/28/14 at 11:28am

His point was to create a thread in which negative things would accumulate against a single performer.

I'm not a frequenter here, is he for real?

[haterobics]

Posted: 7/28/14 at 12:51pm

"I'm not a frequenter here, is he for real?"

Yes.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 7/28/14 at 2:25pm

Gomez, if you're going to quote people, make sure you actually put quotations around the statement you are quoting....

[binau]

Posted: 8/2/14 at 4:00am

Lucky for me I was able to see him before the hype (i.e., the first preview) and thought his Tony was well-deserved (in fact, I posted that he would win it on BWW that night). His performance of Friend Like Me truly "stopped the show" in a way I have rarely seen before.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 8/2/14 at 9:52am

"If you didn't like it, though, why create a negative thread about him? Can't you just not like it and just go on with your life? There are many things I don't like, but I can't give you links to all of the threads I then started about them... "

Perhaps because there's nothing wrong with having an unfavorable review of something, especially when one expresses it as measuredly as Gomez3 has. I see responses like the above on bww all the time as if there's something inherently objectionable about objectivity and dissent when discussing theater. Don't get it. It's as if people are threatened by "negativity" even when it's presented not as an ad hominem attack but as an honest assessment.

I don't understand how starting rave threads can be good and starting critical threads bad.




Updated On: 8/2/14 at 09:52 AM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/2/14 at 9:57am

It absolutely was an ad hominem attack.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/2/14 at 9:57am

It absolutely was an ad hominem attack.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/2/14 at 10:05am

Saw a naughty version of the show and I am scratching my head why the show was nominated for Best Musical over Bridges or other shows. It is an extended theme park show.

Having said that, Monroe is the best part of it and he keeps you watching when he is on. He also has the best number in the show. He richly deserved the Tony.

Updated On: 8/2/14 at 10:05 AM

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 8/2/14 at 11:18am

Calling someone's worked forced and cheesy communicates something specific and apparently genuinely perceived about the performance. For that reason it is not ad hominem, i.e., something reductively abasing that appeals merely to emotion without regard to logic or reason. Which is not to say that it's irrebuttable or objective. Those are very different things. By your definition, Joey, half of everything Pauline Kael ever said about acting performances would be in the nature of an ad hominem.

Updated On: 8/2/14 at 11:18 AM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/2/14 at 11:22am

Without him, the show is as flat as day old soda left out on a table.