Variety Knocks Movie-Game Comparisons

Variety takes film critics to task today over their propensity to compare action-filled flicks to video games, as has happened with several reviews of 300:

For today's movie critics, videogames are the new MTV musicvideo, a shorthand insult for any movie deemed too heavy on effects and visual panache at the expense of plot and coherence.

Anyone who has spent much time playing videogames -- a category in which, it seems safe to assume, few established film critics fall -- knows the comparison is both artistically demeaning and substantively wrong.

And ends with a dig about the actual video game that they made about 300. A good read.

'300' critics cling to consoles [Variety]