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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Because, at a glance to me, it's a story about a child finding out that her mom used to be a slut, and now she, her ex-whore mom, and her 3 dupes "merrily" get to bog us down for the next 2 hours in a dancing/singing-festival of a movie as we anxiously (*YAWN*) wait to see which of these 3 is the lucky father. On a beautiful Greek Isle no less, wearing beautiful, colorful clothes...PULEEZZZE!!!
It's times like this that I truly value the woman I'm married to. Because rather than wanting to drag me to go see this gay-ass film, her initial comment when seeing the trailers for this mess was "Isn't it true that people in Greece don't bathe very often? What's wrong with this picture?"
"I can only add that several weeks ago, when my son took his 8 year old niece, my granddaughter, to the latest Indian Jones movie, they showed the trailer for "Mamma Mia!", which caused Zara to proclaim that she absolutely HAD to see it. Uncle Marc quickly quashed that, as well he should have."
I hope the mother slapped the daylights out of Uncle Marc. He wouldn't have to take her. What a vicious turkey.
Knowing 8 year olds, I'll be Uncle Marc THINKS he quashed that. She'll ask someone else to take her.
In one of the trailers, where you get to see the "natives" say "Mamma Mia," I swear to god that the guy sticking his head over that wall at the very front looks like Steve-O...
Now, if that were really true, then I might have been inclined to watch the film just to see Steve-O do some stupid Jackass-style stunt...but even Steve-O wouldn't have been that idiotic...
Hey Everyone, I just read the phrase "this gay-ass film"...
Everyone in this town ( I live, for most of every year, in the few blocks between the politically-correct, parrot-fever hothouse of the Duke English Department and the less-than-entirely-politcally-correct "Duke Lacrosse" scandal-house) has gotten so self-consciously NICE that I haven't heard the phrase "gay-ass" (as in "your gay-ass dog" or "that gay-ass film") in years and years.....even gay men seem scared to use it anymore...(atleast when they're with straight, "nice" people)
I'm so glad to find that someone's got the balls to type it.
I (and, surprisingly enough, also my reasonably handsome, very rich, 6'1", devoted French doctor boyfriend)am queer as a box of birds.
and I miss the phrase "gay-ass". I neverliked it when folks mis-applied it, but it DID serve a useful purpose for long while there....
thank you, whoever wrote that....
---david terry
www.davidterryart.com
I can't understand why someone would take an 8yo to an Indiana Jones movie. I saw the original when I was 8, and the melting Nazi faces haunted me for months.
"Crystal Skull" is PG-13. Presumably for gore and violence. Abba karyoke and a glossed-over checkered past seem far more appropriate for an 8yo, IMHO.
I fully agree. I can't understand someone taking an 8 year old to Indiana Jones. Nightmares for days. That's ridiculous.
Now I might not want to explain the plot to an 8 year old girl, but she'll love the spectacle.
...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.
Streep and Brosnan are to "Mamma Mia" as Hepburn and Brazzi were to "My Fair Lady" and "South Pacific" with voices dubbed by Marni Nixon and Giorgio Tozzi. I guess they're supposed to enhance the box office but they drove me away.
I can't wait for her explanation(s) as to WHY she hates the latest fil-um.
What a wet blanket.
There was this buddy movie from the early 80s with Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard. In it, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help in finding her runaway son. It was a remarkably sweet movie, actually. Worth a rental.
But no ABBA music.
Hmmm?... I just read "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."
In my case, that would be because she said nothing positive that hadn't been said before, just as surely as (when she says something negative) I'm highly aware that I can read a "positive" review (from a more widely-known publication and almost always publisehd just before hers) by Zacherek, and I can tell exactly what she'll choose to react against.
She has adopted a postion (in the word's most purely strategical meaning), and she seems to be maintaining it quite admirably (in Paglian terms).
All I have to say is that she's obviously intelligent (not as though many of Salon's readers AREN'T), writes well (who doesn't among us?), and seems rather bent on solidifying her position as a provacateur. Oh...La Fatigue du Nord!......
It's a very simple procedure.....even the twitty, 24/7-faux-outraged girls at "Broadsheet" are managing to make hay for themsevles out of this method, to Salon's discredit.
and, yes, I know..."If you don';t like her reveiws, than stop reading them!".
Back to hauling mulch for me,
David terry
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