Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Saturday, November 04, 2006


The hacks will be insufferable all weekend because their movie is a SUPERDUPERMEGASMASH, but look further down the list: junk that was regularly able to lure the suckers no longer does so. Third-rate "family" movies, the umpteenth replication of Toy Story -- these gimmicks won't work. Yes, media types will crow over their success -- and they may just as soon have to eat it.

Despite this epochal triumph B. O. could still be down double-digits for the weekend -- the first of eight straight bad comparisons that might deflate the media types' egos, a little.

P. S. DIMWIT:

Obviously, buzz has never been foolproof (and with media journalism and movies, you've got to emphasize the "fool" in foolproof) [What can that mean? That we media-consuming peons are fools?], but it's become so pervasive that when a creation built on buzz fails, such as "Snakes on a Plane," Hollywood is shocked. Movie-lovers, though, should be overjoyed: It's a sign of audiences declaring their freedom from advertising, and from "soft" feature-writing that might as well be advertising. [Emphasis added]

When will the hacks stop making excuses for themselves so they can go on doing as they please?

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