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Average Rating: Rating: - Benjamin Scott Details is best described as more intellectual than Maxim (and it's 20+ clones), but not as pretentions or materialistic as GQ and company. Excellent subject matter, the best writting of any entertainment magazine in publication, reliable critics, and fashion shoots that are actually interesting and have clothes even I would wear make it the most enjoyable and relevant mag around. Through and through, Details is THE magazine out today, and probably will be for a long time. (Plus it is cheap as sin!) Rating: - Its still good... I was a big fan of Details my freshmen year in college...until new editors came in and changed the format of the magazine I loved. Smart-eleke remarks were converted into cultured critiques. Weird photo spreads started to bare striking similarities to photo shots by Vogue. I no longer felt as if I was getting inside the head of a wise cracking, "hipster" male but being forced to listen to the ponderings of guys who took themselves WAY too seriously. (Its never cool to try too hard and one GQ is enough.) But I picked it up again about a year ago and saw that it is slowly coming back to its old style. Its still a good buy. Rating: - Details needs to get over itself Ever since it's been around, the one tragedy of Details is that it never lived up to the awesome promise of its name. It came close in the mid 90's but then a revolving crew of editors and a scattered focus ruined it. The newest incarnation has promise. It's just that after two years that's still all that it has. I know young men aren't supposed to read much, but one gets the feeling that the reason articles are so short is that the subjects just aren't that interesting. Did we really need two pages to convince us that Matt Damon is just a regular guy? Why Ben Affleck? And why Leonardo Dicaprio, whose Rolling Stone Cover Issue was one of the worst selling in its history? Part of the problem is that Details is owned by fashion trade publishers, a genre not really known for much well, details. The magazine needs an edge. It won't come from self consciously arty fashion spreads of clothes we wont buy. It won't come from the magazine covers that reflect only white male america (and their fears: the Mike Tyson cover was appaling) . And it wont come from stories that only the Details staff want to read. Details needs to get over itself and focus on who it wants to reach. Chances are that person has been wondering if they should give GQ a try.

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