Film Courage: There’s an afterglow with a great film where you need time to process. You come out of the theater, it’s dark but you’re still in that world and you’re still in those characters. It is difficult then to go to another equally great one or whatever it loses something because that’s the beauty of loving a film is you’re lost in it for weeks, sometimes almost a lifetime if it’s really that powerful.
Scott Menzel, Film Critic, Writer, Hollywood Critics Association Founder: Yeah, I think what the problem is too is that, and I said this online and I’ve often gotten criticism from it, is that I don’t like having an instant reaction to things but the way that we as film critics are and what has kind of been programmed into our brains is that we want to react to something as soon as we see it. It’s what I keep saying about being the first. You want to get into that first screening, you want to be the first to see Batman, you want to be the first to see Top Gun Maverick. There’s something special about being part of that initial buzz to kind of be like I saw this before other people. It’s not anything about ego, it’s just this kind of feeling of Wow, I was important enough or this studio looked at me and trusts my opinion well enough that they would include me in those first batch of reviews, of those first batch of reactions. I often come out of a movie and almost subconsciously the first thing I do is pull out my phone and I just start taping reactions. Even stuff that’s out, this movie’s been out but I still feel like I have to chime in on it. A couple of days ago we went to see Minions. I didn’t go to the press screening for that because it was a busy week. I wanted to see it at a regular theater. It was funny because I’m singing with everyone else and yet as soon as it’s done, pull out my phone…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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BIO:
Born and raised in New Jersey, Scott Menzel has been a life-long fan of all things entertainment. His love for film started at five years old and has only grown over the years. Scott started writing reviews in early 2002 and has been conducting interviews since 2010. He currently serves as the Editor-In-Chief of We Live Entertainment and the founder of the Hollywood Critics Association.
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