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• Friday, July 18, 2008 10:42 AM

  You anti-Zacharek people...

  ...crack me up. Y'all sure do get your knickers in a bunch sometimes, doncha?

  Her pan of "Dark Knight" generated 500000 comments along the lines of "Does she HATE movies?," "Why does Salon continue to employ this hack and when will they hire a REAL reviewer?" and "Whatever she says I just assume the opposite" blahblahblah. And this for a movie that 99% of you haven't even seen yet because it didn't open until today.

  Then she dismisses "Mamma Mia!" and a few of you are STILL going on about "Knight."

  And, yet, between her pans of "Knight" and "Mamma" she posted a highly positive review of "Before I Forget"--and not a single comment has been posted about that one.

  Hmmm...y'all get the vapors when she disses The Most Anticipated Movie of the Summer but you have nothing to say when she likes a small, art-house, gay-themed movie. Wonder why that might be? I probably won't see "Forget" at the theater but it's definitely a rental for me.

  Like Zacharek I wasn't all that impressed with "Batman Begins" and I suspect I'll agree with her review of "Knight" but that being said I'm going to see it Saturday. And, yes, Ledger is the reason. I love me some Christian (::pant pant:: "American Psycho") but unfortunately for him Ledgermania's leaving him in the dust. :(

  And I do find the whole Batman/Joker--Order/Chaos--Two Insane Guys Who Are Two Sides of the Same Coin mythos fascinating. So, yeah, I'm there tomorrow.

  Unlike Zacharek I'll probably enjoy "Mamma" though that one, like "Forget", is a future rental. Yes, it looks fatally silly and ridiculous and, yes, it's totally gay-ass (I too haven't heard that phrase in years) but so what? As somebody said they're weren't out to make "Sophie's Choice 2" here. It might be this generation's "Can't Stop the Music" but how is that a bad thing? :)

  As for the dude who squashed his 8yo niece's interest in seeing "Mamma": he needs to be slapped.

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