Community Written/Edited Reviews

And I plan on participating.  Anybody planning on reviewing Watchmen?

Crankyland shall rise again!

Since we will be getting a byline of some kind is it safe to say there will be no pay?  Also we lose all rights to the material right?  Maybe we could get some surplus Cranky t-shirts or something.  I just want to say I was a paid writer!

I have always written reviews for this site for fun.  Never expected to get paid.

It shouldn't be hard to coordinate who reviews what, since there will be a small number of people and we can just e-mail each other.

{;-) Dan in Miami

When a movie gets a really limited North American release, in three or four cities, Toronto is usually one of them.  I'd be in a good position to review some of those movies.

For example, the fashion documentary VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR is being released here in a couple of weeks. (The fashion world was made for the Mr. Cranky approach!)

Also, I bet I could do a review of one of the Metropolitan Opera HD simulcasts!

Everyone who responded to this thread favorably I have made a Contributor. Now when you click on the Add Content link at the top, you should see the option to create a "New Movie Review".

Only other contributors will be able to see it. Other contributors can also edit it and/or add comments. It will automatically save all revisions, so it can be reverted back to a former version at any time.

I have set it up so it emails all contributors when a new draft has been posted. If you guys want to get more email notification, like when one is changed, let me know.

You can view new reviews in progress by clicking on "My Account" and they should be listed at the very bottom of your profile.

Let me know any feedback you might have.

Also, this isn't just limited to new releases of course.

He wrote some very funny reviews for Cranky version 1.0

{;-) Dan in Miami

It's showing here in Toronto.

Did everyone get the series of test emails last night?

Full steam ahead!

{;-) Dan in Miami

The biggest problem I have at the moment is that there isn't one damned new movie out there that I care to see.  My reviews are mostly positive anyway because I only go to movies I'm fairly sure I'll enjoy.  So unless my wife drags me kicking and screaming to some chick flick or some wretched documentary, I'll doubt anything I see will be rated less than 3 bombs. 

Mr. Cranky said in his goodbye note that he got some pleasure out of every movie he saw no matter how awful.  I wish that were the case with me.  Or maybe Mr. Cranky never saw Charles Bronson's Kinjite.  If he had, he may have had to devise a rating worse than a nuke. 

I got an email with a link to a draft review page where there's a new comment.  But when I opened the link, I got a message saying "Access denied:  You don't have authorization to open this page." And I was already logged in as Fearless Freep, so it isn't due to failing to do that.

I tried to get on last night and was going to attempt to list some well-known actors paired with what they're known (or infamous) for for Freep's Che review, but I could no longer access the Community Reviews section.

Something corrupted some of the permissions and I was unable to fully track down the issue. So I created a whole other system...blargh.

Contributors are now part of the Draft Group, which you can see on your Account page. Click on that link and it will list all drafts.

You will still get the same types of emails.

Check it out and let me know if everything works right.

Thanks!

Heh, Heh.

{;-) Dan in Miami