Posted 4:34 PM by Gene

Today our local KnightRidder newspaper monopoly was doing a high-pressure sales pitch for the summer movie junk, what's good for Time Warner again peering its monstrous sci-fi-and-fantasy face to the public. Already the ad-blurb copywriters are prepared for The Big Three, their hard drives loaded with adjectives like dark and edgy, nouns like masterpiece. One would like to think with a disastrous week for RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'S GIRLFRIEND and the rest of the trade they will have to sell a little more loudly, and desperately. We who yearn to see movies and haven't for eons are tired of what Hollywood and the ad-blurb copywriters want us to waste our money on. We are tired of LUCAS SPIELBERG and His Buck Rogers bunk, tired of gore, tired of flatulence jokes, tired of movies aimed at the stupidest among us. We are tired, and our culture is tired. WE WANT MOVIES FOR ADULTS AGAIN. No doubt by September there'll be the usual lucky streak, and the news hacks will again speak in their typical glowing breathless manner of self-interest, with the same fatuous grin as if we'd just run out of Iraq; but one wonders if even the people who bang their heads in the movie houses and think it entertainment aren't getting impatient.

P. S. to ESPNCORP: I'd think hard about making so much as A sequel of your dirty, tattered, flea- and maggot-infested Hitchhiker -- unless you want it to go STRAIGHT TO VIDEO.