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A comment on What I Didn't Say (2013).

Re:What I Didn't Say (2013) by tnecniv on Saturday August 12, 2017 @05:42PM (#15000158)
Reminds me of an old Mad Magazine bit (I'm sure it didn't originate there) where someone gives a scathing review of a movie and the PR guy hacks a positive one together through creative use of ellipses.
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Re:What I Didn't Say (2013) by slyall on Saturday August 12, 2017 @07:48PM (#15000705)
A good version of this here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/sep/09/legend...

plus some general stuff about the practice

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Re:What I Didn't Say (2013) by ilamont on Saturday August 12, 2017 @06:53PM (#15000481)
This still happens in the book industry. A publicity person told me that it's perfectly fine to use a very short excerpt even from a critical review.
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