Talk:Loving You (1957 film)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Zanimum (talk · contribs) 21:55, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Looks solid at first glance, I'll review it. -- Zanimum (talk) 21:55, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

I'll try to post a review tomorrow morning. -- Zanimum (talk) 22:03, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Sorry for dilly-dallying. Here's a bit of the review. -- Zanimum (talk) 17:23, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Passing infobox.

Lead

• While Paramount is mentioned as distributor just to the side of the lead, in the infobox, I'd mention them in the third paragraph, when you're introducing the Presley Pattern. While it was a middling film for Elvis, it really can be deemed one of the landmarks in cinema distribution, Paramount deserves credit.

Cast

• What's with the strange formatting? I've honestly never seen formatting like this. Why not hyphens, or the word "as"?

Soundtrack

• Normally I'd quibble about the inclusion of a fair use audio file on a movie page, but since it doesn't appear in the album's article, and there's no solo article about the song, I'll allow it.

Release and reception

• In the lead, it's the "Elvis Presley pattern", here it's the "Presley pattern". Does it differ between Hall and Hall/Neale? I believe full text of Variety for that era is on Google Books, if they're website is only reviews... it would be worth digging into a period primary source to help decide.

Reviews

• Overall, kudos on the section. Nothing to contest about the prose or organization of this section. I'm quite impressed by the "Evaluation in film guides"; you're likely not the first, but I've never seen this in a film article before. Certainly helps lend a modern view on the film.
• What I would suggest though is to try and dig for a couple more period reviews of the film. There's got to be something more. To be clear, this is a longer-term goal, not something needed to gain a GA pass.

Assessment

Opening comments

Excuse the strange formatting, after I nominated the article some edits were made by other users that affected the format, and I had to repair some of that. With that being said, full credit of the Evaluation in film guides section goes to Roman Spinner, I just added the citations to the more than useful material he added.

Lead

• Paramount linked. Y

Release and reception

• Neal and Hall/Neal call it the "Presley Pattern". Period sources from the 60s also refer to it as the "Presley Pattern", while I also found a source from 1970 that calls it the "Elvis Presley Pattern". Guess we could settle with "Presley Pattern".--GDuwenTell me! 16:45, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Reviews

• I'm a strong supporter of adding period review to this sort of articles. Initial reviews and further reviewing through the years help to get a better understanding of the subject. Problem is, as usual, period reviewing is not so easy to find (that's the moment I think of getting a subscription of something like newspapers.com). I added two new ones, guess that the one by Down Beat offers the most interesting material.--GDuwenTell me! 16:45, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Placing this back in the queue, since it's yet another one of Zanimum's abandoned reviews. Wizardman 14:40, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Sorry to hear that, waiting now for a new reviewer then.--GDuwenTell me! 22:34, 29 November 2014 (UTC)