Gas Station Boudin

samsplace:

thethirdshift:

I don’t ever think I’ve seen a movie as savaged as Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close critically earn Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor.

Also, I don’t care that Viola Davis & Octavia Spencer could win Oscars in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories — The Help

Stephen Daldry (Director of “Extremely loud…”) is an emotional pornographer of the basest kind. Exploitative, reductive, manipulative and a bit of a hack to boot. It’s disgusting that this film was nominated for Best Picture. I’m not surprised, however, as I was recently discussing it with a fellow I know who is a member of the Academy. He is a pompous, arrogant, out-of-touch jackass of the first order. Of course he loved the film. Don’t get me started on “The Help” as that conversation ends with me beating Sandra Bullock to death with Jessica Tandy’s corpse.

As I was reading Sam’s reblog of Colin’s piece, I began to worry that the streak might be broken today: Every negative movie review of Sam’s that I’ve read includes a some sort of violent fantasy/threat. It’s tradition! Then I got to the last sentence, and I breathed deeply, comforted that the world makes sense for at least one more day. 

PS Sam, you need to do more movie reviews.