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Movie Minutiae - Johnny Betts - China's Reviewer of Choice?By Ala, Guest CorrespondentI am currently in China enjoying time with my family, and over here I'm sure you'll know it is full of illicit DVDs - EVERYWHERE. And I mean, everywhere. You're in the middle of a tiny village of somewhere remote and - Bang! Another DVD shop, full to the brim with pictures of Japanese CGI game characters badly-photoshopped standing next to Aragorn from LotR with the legend 'Eric the Viking' stuck across the front, the blurb half-Korean, half-Russian. (Worth buying for simply that, lol). Taking a look on the back of my cousin's copy of National Treasure I found something quite typical - a block of text which has blatantly been copied off the Internet and is in fragments. So I type the first few lines of this blurb into Google, simply to see what happens. And hey - presto! "The Movie Mark" comes up with this review done by a certain Johnny Betts, so I go to the hate mail page and find his email address... It's the funniest thing ever, thinking that any random person, whether 17 or 35, whether in Paris or Toronto, could have their mini online fandoms splattered across the back of a DVD cover in Fujian, or wherever. Johnny: Folks, this is just too funny. I have no idea why my review was chosen to be copied on to the back of this DVD, and I certainly had no idea prior to Ala emailing me this story. Below this you can see an actual picture of the DVD. You'll notice that they only included fragments of my review. Couldn't they have at least used a full paragraph instead of cutting stuff off in mid-sentence? This is hilarious, but I'm sure with my luck one of two things will happen: 1) People will now accuse me of stealing my reviews from the back of Chinese bootleg DVDs and filling in the blanks, or 2) I'll be accused of selling bootleg DVDs to the Chinese and forcing them to agree to put my reviews on the back of 'em. Whatever the case, I have some new t-shirt ideas. "Johnny Betts - China's Reviewer of Choice." Or how about, "Johnny Betts - The Voice of the China Nation." Or maybe, "Johnny Betts - Hey, at least the Chinese bootleg DVD market likes him."  |
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