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The Academy Awards are so great because they keep us in touch with the ratty old values of our forefathers and foremothers. We no longer know how to churn butter, or why it’s improper to wear white after Labor Day, but we can still bond with our grandparents over our terrible taste in Cinematic Art.
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Posted on: February 8th, 2009
Read more: Academy Awards, biopic, Doubt, film, film review, Harvey Milk, Hollywood, Oscars, Revolutionary Road, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Reader
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Here’s a friendly warning for you: don’t count on the movies to get you through the holidays, any more than they got you through the Wall Street seizures or this gut-wrencher of an election. As bad as the movies have been recently, that’s how bad they’re going to be right through to 2009. Maybe even a tad worse, if that’s possible. Just to give you an idea, the title of one of them, a big fat one with stars and a major budget and everything, is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Just chew on that a minute while I check the polls. (Oh jeez, it’s tightening up, Obama’s only up by 5.4 nationally, 7 in Pennsylvania, 4 in Virginia. I swear, if we lose this one…!)
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No way.
Actually, I refuse to review High School Musical 3. We all know it’s rotten.
Which brings me to my point: where the hell are the movies? I mean the ones for mass audiences, designed to make sentient beings want to go see them? Especially the comedies…people used to go to them and laugh…they had a good time…any of this ring a bell? Did they stop making those and nobody announced it, or what? It’s kind of important.
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