Might I suggest a couple of additional ground rules for reviews used on this thread (which don't affect any posted so far)?
1. No made up words. Specifically, I'm thinking of stuff like Rovark's (admittedly brilliant) review 'Van Dyke's psuedo-cockney-unrealistic-especially-atrocious accent.' for Mary Poppins.
2. While we're on the subject, no use of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It's just not fair, and since it can only really be used in a Mary Poppins review, it would make this challenge very uninteresting very fast.
Benj, pending reviews seem to be cut off at 60 characters. Please could you correct that if you are able to from where you are?
When there's room, I'll put the full review in the explanation box in the meantime.
I think the 60 letter limit is all that can fit in the "balloon" A limit actually makes this challenge more difficult.
That's an interesting idea. It'd slightly change the nature of the challenge. Instead of trying for the longest review possible, we're looking at trying to get the closest to 60. If we did that, I wouldn't mind wacky hyphenation or supercalif...etc.
I've just submitted a 51 letter (52 characters, if you include the period at the end) one word review that plays on the word Supercalifragalisticexpialadocious. I doubt the MERPs will accept it, but it is for the movie Designing Women and my review is:
1. No made up words. Specifically, I'm thinking of stuff like Rovark's (admittedly brilliant) review 'Van Dyke's psuedo-cockney-unrealistic-especially-atrocious accent.' for Mary Poppins.
No way. If a made-up word is valid for approval, it's valid for this challenge.
quote:2. While we're on the subject, no use of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It's just not fair, and since it can only really be used in a Mary Poppins review, it would make this challenge very uninteresting very fast.
No way again. It could easily be used when commenting on Mary Poppins aspects of other films, or could just be randomly punned on ('Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious').
I think the 60 letter limit is all that can fit in the "balloon"
Some reviews with fewer letters don't fit the balloons either, so that's not a very good reason. Also, the balloons ought to fit the reviews, not vice versa.
Well, there's already a page space boggler when a film has a particularly long title ... such as Borat, or some of those 19th century documentary shorts.
This can result in a FWFR covering up the Vote Edit Report options of the film directly below on the page.
I'm sure we can all wait till benj gets back and he can decide on the best combo of aesthetics and functionality.
F.W.F.R.ers' challenge 6: lengthiness
Posted - 07/29/2007 : 16:04:03
