Los Angeles Times interview with "Life Itself" director Dan Fogelman has the filmmaker backtracking on his previous comments, made a few days ago, blaming his film's terrible reviews on “white male critics who don’t like anything that has emotion.” As I had pointed out at the time, of the 19 female film critics that reviewed "Life Itself," 17 were rotten, just two were positive.
Anyway, now Fogelman is just blaming critics in general: “I think I just have a wildly different creative palette than the cynical film critic” Fogelman told the LAT. “And that’s OK. I like different things than they like sometimes but not — not in a bad way. My hope is that it will be warmly received in that way and kind of be able to split the difference of both worlds the way that [‘This Is Us’] has.”
Director Dan Fogelman: Negative ‘Life Itself’ Reviews Have to do With ‘White Male Critics Who Don’t Like Anything That Has Emotion’
I did not catch “This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman's movie “Life Itself” at the Toronto International Film Festival, but the reviews were rather harsh, to say the least (the movie has a 14% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 42 reviews).
n an interview with TooFab magazine, Fogelman went on a rant about today's film criticism and the bad reviews which greeted his film:
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