Moody Wins Coveted "PreVie" Award
Is runner-up in second category
(AP, January 13, 2004) Artist and weblogger Tom Moody has won a coveted PreVie award, given out annually for the best "prereviews" of Hollywood films.
"It was a three-way tie for 'Best Rant,'" says an ecstatic Moody. "The award committee really liked my review of the movie, The Order. No, not the one with Jean-Claude Van Damme, the one about the rogue priests."
"Prereviews" are an Internet phenomenon, where reviewers describe and opine about films they don't see.
"In an information-blitz society, there is so much data out there about films that one can formulate a reasonably good opinion about them," observes Charles Sheckley, a media studies professor at Virginia Polytechnic University. "Also, frankly, Hollywood films are so cookie-cutter and filled with platitudinous 'conventional wisdom,' who actually needs to go?"
Inspiring many other prereview websites, Joe McKay's "PreReview" was the first, and "still absolutely the best," according to TinselTalk, a Hollywood-watching site. McKay raised a few eyebrows by judging this year's competition, especially since he gave himself one of the awards.
"That was a bit tacky, but hey, it's his site," said TinselTalk's Sherry Flanagan.
Moody was also runner-up for his "Classic PreReview" of the movie Top Gun. Classic PreReviews apply to older films and must also not have been seen by the reviewer. "Yeah, I'm probably the only person in America that hasn't seen Top Gun. But I wasn't confused when everyone was comparing it to Bush's flight deck stunt. I certainly knew it well enough to review it," Moody said.
Are you behind the tag-like stickers all over Williamsburg/E. Village that say "Moody!"
Does this have anything to do with what you just posted? Alas, no, but I must know.
No, but I like those stickers. I've been thinking about photographing one and appropriating the tag for my page.
Fellow contestant, Sally McKay, swallowed her disappointment to congratulate Moody on his two awards. "I really thought I'd do better than just a three-way tie for rant," said McKay, dabbing her mascara with a crumpled tissue, " but I trust the judges, well the judge... I mean he is my little brother, I have to trust him, right? And that Moody fellow is quite a writer. I'm sure he deserves two whole prizes."
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Moody Wins Coveted "PreVie" Award
Is runner-up in second category
(AP, January 13, 2004) Artist and weblogger Tom Moody has won a coveted PreVie award, given out annually for the best "prereviews" of Hollywood films.
"It was a three-way tie for 'Best Rant,'" says an ecstatic Moody. "The award committee really liked my review of the movie, The Order. No, not the one with Jean-Claude Van Damme, the one about the rogue priests."
"Prereviews" are an Internet phenomenon, where reviewers describe and opine about films they don't see.
"In an information-blitz society, there is so much data out there about films that one can formulate a reasonably good opinion about them," observes Charles Sheckley, a media studies professor at Virginia Polytechnic University. "Also, frankly, Hollywood films are so cookie-cutter and filled with platitudinous 'conventional wisdom,' who actually needs to go?"
Inspiring many other prereview websites, Joe McKay's "PreReview" was the first, and "still absolutely the best," according to TinselTalk, a Hollywood-watching site. McKay raised a few eyebrows by judging this year's competition, especially since he gave himself one of the awards.
"That was a bit tacky, but hey, it's his site," said TinselTalk's Sherry Flanagan.
Moody was also runner-up for his "Classic PreReview" of the movie Top Gun. Classic PreReviews apply to older films and must also not have been seen by the reviewer.
"Yeah, I'm probably the only person in America that hasn't seen Top Gun. But I wasn't confused when everyone was comparing it to Bush's flight deck stunt. I certainly knew it well enough to review it," Moody said.
- tom moody 1-13-2004 10:22 pm
Are you behind the tag-like stickers all over Williamsburg/E. Village that say "Moody!"
Does this have anything to do with what you just posted? Alas, no, but I must know.
- asker (guest) 1-14-2004 12:53 am
No, but I like those stickers. I've been thinking about photographing one and appropriating the tag for my page.
- tom moody 1-14-2004 1:00 am
Fellow contestant, Sally McKay, swallowed her disappointment to congratulate Moody on his two awards. "I really thought I'd do better than just a three-way tie for rant," said McKay, dabbing her mascara with a crumpled tissue, " but I trust the judges, well the judge... I mean he is my little brother, I have to trust him, right? And that Moody fellow is quite a writer. I'm sure he deserves two whole prizes."
- sally mckay 1-14-2004 8:02 am