My friends, I am not an optimist, but I never thought I’d be Writing a column like this.
I have Written huge rants about bad movies. About the popularity of reality tv shows, about the sorry state of comedy. Piddly shit.
Sometimes I have tried to tackle more sensitive topics, like a particular column I was always both proud and embarassed of, where I talked about a very sensitive medical procedure I had to get.
But I never thought I’d have to figure out what to say about this shit.
As I Write this it has been one week since the attacks on New York and Washington. For most americans and in other parts of the world, this is no fucking time to be reading a web sight about what some asshole thinks about movies. So if anyone is reading this I thank you for thinking about me, or for coming to my sight as a comfort or a distraction from what is going on in the world, or perhaps to hear what the hell I think about all this. (If that’s not what you want, you better click away now, I’m sorry to say.)
Before last Tuesday, I was preparing to dump a whole load of my movie review crap on the internet. I saw that movie “a knight’s tale” for example and I was gonna review that. It was from the director of Payback, a 1999 outlaw award winner, so back then it seemed important to check it out. And there was this dark Spanish comedy, Dying of Laughter, from a director I’ve been keeping an eye on, the guy who did Day of the Beast. I was pretty excited about that. Not anymore.
I don’t know what’s going to happen next. And I don’t know what our government should do. And I’m sorry to say this but it’s true, I don’t have any faith that they will do the right thing, whatever that is. (more…)
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