Posted 5:53 PM by Gene

Hey THUMBS®! What are you whining about? I thought movies were the meaning of "excelsior"! Wasn't The Dark Knight one of the greatest artworks of all time? Didn't we just have a revelation from St. Judd of Apatow? Don't you "critical" clods rave many of the same masterworks the "violent or moronic fanboys" rave? You clowns run off at the mouth about the GENIUS of films and you have the NERVE to say they're getting worse? Even if they are, THUMBS®, doesn't THE GREATEST NETWORK IN HISTORY provide an outlet for nudity, profanity and -- I mean, ART? But as your friends in the biz tell you, there's always an out, THUMBS® -- rave IMMORTAL TV TOO! Or better still, rave more of those art pictures no one sees. Best yet, just keep raving movies! Although even your defenders might think it piling Pelion on Ossa, or 3D on basest junk. Pile on! You may say "it doesn’t really take a movie person to approve" those violent or moronic films, but it does take a movie "critic" to constantly RAVE them! I'd guess you've raved as many movies these last five years of your career as you did your first five -- and those first five in the middle of what the twerp Peter Biskind and other industry conformists call THE GREATEST AGE OF MOVIES EVER!!!!! (And for Russ Meyer.) Would it ever occur to you, THUMBS®, that maybe you "critics" share as much of the blame as the bean counters or the violent or moronic fanboys -- or Jack Valenti -- for the fact the movies STINK? No -- or you wouldn't have made all those zillions kissing Michael Eisner's behind. (And Gene too!) Those bean counters weren't the only ones who helped ruin a great industry just so they could get rich.

THUMBS®, your typing is one part pish, one part tosh and 100 percent BULLHOCKEY.

''Movies are becoming like dinosaurs -- their bodies are getting bigger and bigger and their brains are getting smaller and smaller.''

That's all right -- someday we can use the now brainless dinosaurs for OIL!

(Revised 5/21/2011)