The Hundred-Foot Journey: My Book, Their Movie bit.ly/1rIXZEd (Screenplay by Lockes - my earlier update today - director!) Relevant portion, given the hullabaloo it created earlier in this page: There was, briefly, a tense moment when A.O. Scott of The New York Times shredded the film, as my other hometown critics at The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Daily News, and the Village Voice generally gave a thumbs up. The Scott review reminded me of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., who said watching a critic tear apart a novel is like watching a person “put on full armor” to attack a “banana split.” Luckily, audiences took issue with Scott’s assessment. The film’s opening weekend box office of $11 million surpassed expectations, and it was the only just-released film that earned an A in audience exit polls.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:21:31 +0000