Posted 12:20 PM by Gene

We overstate the popularity and influence of movees because the hacks who publicize them are part of the small national clique alongside stupid teenagers and hopelessly naive parents who form their core audience. The sighs of disappointment over the latest tentpole underline this. Who but the mentally -- challenged who must witness this extrusion and the hacks who must rub their hands in idiot expectation over the grosses really cares? And even the teens may be growing brain cells as witness the empty seats on midnight Thursday.

That the industry is irrelevant is beyond question, however high-decibel its publicity shrieks; the FCC's decision to allow the movee extruders to pipe their sewage direct into homes seals it. Moveegoing as a social activity was doomed from the day someone thought teevee up, but then movees started becoming teevee a long time ago, when the studios got into series production, and especially when they tried their closed-circuit experiments in the sixties; moreover because movees are now biggest-screen teevee, not least in their production and dissemination, the distinction is just as irrelevant as the industry, however much Mr. THUMBS-UP!!!!! may gabble otherwise.