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

Posted 9:41 AM by Gene

Someone translate LALA's fil-LUM cri-TIC for me: In his first sentence he says:

Think of "Avatar" as "The Jazz Singer" of 3-D filmmaking.

And then in his second sentence he says:

Think of it as the most expensive and accomplished Saturday matinee movie ever made.

With that first sentence Ken wants to ride high on the wave of sycophancy, forgetting that The Jazz Singer is remembered only for a catchphrase. As for the second, Ken surely talked himself into believing this high praise, but every time we get a Saturday matinee movie from the biz these days it earns high praise, so that doesn't mean anything.

And we can offer this further translation: This masterwork effectively merges movees and video games, but they've been headed that way for years, and now the scorn for them can be mutual.

We don't doubt SLIME will earn an immortal triumph, but one that will be as ultimately inescapable in the public conscious as The Jazz Singer was maybe ten years after its opening, when it was already historical detritus.

P. S. We saw The Jazz Singer on TV, years ago -- it's an effective weepie that stops in its tracks when the dialogue comes on.