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• Thursday, November 15, 2007 06:55 PM

  Hey!

  You left out Robert Zemeckis' greatest cinematic achievement: the incredibly funny "Used Cars". Far better to remember great moments like that, rather than the cinematic abortions which crowd the latter half of his resume.

  And I have to agree with you: "The Polar Express" was creepy, creepy, creepy. Although I thought I was the only person who noticed that. All those damned little animated elves saluting Santa in that giant, windy, icy-sounding echoing central square...it was like some hellish cross-breeding of Hallmark Santa schmaltz with "Triumph of the Will".

  Heil Santa!

  (Damn it, I still say that the original BOOK of "The Polar Express" was nothing more than a cynical, deliberate attempt to manufacture an instant Christmas "classic" - the author just forgot to put in any heart. And the movie SUCKED. It didn't even succeed in making its basic point! All that repeating over and over again, "Believe, believe, believe!!!" could only make any moderately intelligent six-year-old perk up their ears and wonder why they were pushing the whole point so baldly - there must be some doubt on the subject. It was pretty much a dead giveaway that Santa didn't exist.)

  AND the Polar movie was much too loud and scary. My little boy burst out crying within the first ten minutes - I had to take him out of the theater.

  DAMN YOU, ROBERT ZEMECKIS!!! :D

  (Hey, if Angelina Jolie was naked, how the hell did the movie get a PG-13 rating?)

  —Peter Maranci Read Peter Maranci's other letters
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