Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 9:25 AM by Gene

We've said it ONCE, we've said it A THOUSAND TIMES: just because movie ad-blurbists say a film's a masterpiece doesn't mean it's ANY GOOD. We submit the popcorn-restaurant-frequenting S&M phreaks are now wise to their way of thinking, and know EXACTLY what a "CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED" MOVIE entails, and they will NOT go to see something they can already imagine in their heads. Moreover the number of "adults" among the phreaks is now close to ZERO. So long as the movie business insists it's NOT OUR PROBLEM there will BE a problem.

"...I have these nightmares that this is the way it's going to be forever."

So long as you "INDEPENDENT" movie excreters keep thinking as you've thought for the last forty years we can hope your nightmares persist.

"A frequent moviegoer is defined as someone who goes to one movie every three to four months."

And YOU had absolutely NOTHING to do with THAT.

"It is certainly getting harder and harder to successfully market a film if at the end you're left with a sinking feeling in your stomach."

Does somebody CUE these people when they're going to be interviewed for these navel-staring self-serving press releases?

(Via the occasionally exasperating ArtsJournal)