Very cool

Over at Artful Writer, Scary Movie 4 scribe Craig Mazin has a smart post on how screenwriters--especially those working on genre films--can use fanboy gossip sites like Ain't It Cool to gage the reaction amongst the con-going True Believer crowd. He offers some good insight in how to read the fan reviews and a dead-on description of the comment section, legendary home of the most creative, vulgar vitriol on the net, the Talkbacks:

Talkbacks are insular. They’re their own subculture that has turned back and around on itself. It’s not like you’re getting a hundred honest opinions. You’re getting a hundred statements that are partially honest opinion, partially competitive writing, partially intentional deception, partially delusion and partially deconstructive critical anarchism.

Competitive writing is just about perfect. Good stuff.