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[heidi]

My favorite quote of the day:
Chris Columbus in the Leaky Cauldron interview yesterday:
...Peter Travers in Rolling Stone said, 'I can't criticize this movie, because it's so corporate.' And I'm thinking, you have people, Oscar-winning production designers, cameramen, myself, just busting their chops to get this film done, and you're saying it's a corporate machine. It's just not the case...


I think this is close to the same thing I think when people say that FA is too clean, too corporate, when we've got all these talented and artistic people busting their chops to make a site that's fun and easy to use. Of course, the film has the added issue of being a product of AOL-TW, which is one of the larger and more hated companies in the world... which of course FA doesn't have as an issue, but it's more the feeling. I don't know, I feel like that quote sometimes.

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[jlh.livejournal.com]

I think the reason people think FA is corporate is because it doesn't have a specific point of view. It isn't solely devoted to Draco worship, or Lucius/Harry chanslash, or twincest, or anything in particular, like smaller, more "personal" sites. But I think that's FA's strength.

Of course, that has nothing to do with sheer size; it was always always like that. I know that you all set out, when you started the place, to have it be welcoming to all sorts of fics and conversations and I can say, having joined in December 01, that it always felt that way to me.

As for Peter Travers, he's one of those "golden age of the 70s" Paulette type reviewers. He likes his films handmade and his favourite director is probably Scorcese. Of course, Marty would give his left testicle to have a monster hit, which never occurs to guys like that. They entirely missed Kael's point, that something mass could be good. Moron.