Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Sunday, March 18, 2007
OH oh, that Paramount exec's drumming his fingers:
"Ghost Rider" didn"t register a single positive review on Variety"s [SIC] Crix Picks chart ("Cheesy Rider" headlined the review in the New York Post) but the movie has passed $156 million worldwide. "Night at the Museum" inspired Stephen Holden of the New York Times to this lumpy metaphor: "The movie is an overstuffed grab bag in which lumps of coal are glued together with melted candy." There"s [SIC] always a degree of culture shock when movies this inept produce numbers this ecstatic. Several glib explanations suggest themselves. From a marketing standpoint, we are reminded that February and March are oddly underrated by the studios. Every "tentpole" movie seemingly has to be released within the eight week May-June corridor of self-destruction. Yet clearly a lot of filmgoers would like to be entertained in the post-Oscar period as well, and they deserve better than they are getting. When news orgs quote the NEW! IMPROVED!! PAUL DRECK!!!!! as saying this is a SUPERMEGAPLATINUM AGE for movies, and the hacks bow down on one knee yelling AAAAAAAAAAAAMEN!!!!!, who says so?
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