On Reading Obituaries
They teach us we are living in a sham age of eminent mediocrities.
More Brief Reviews of Movies I haven’t Seen
Brokeback Mountain: A love affair between a pair of homosexualist cowboys ends tragically when one is killed by a horse . The actors playing the leads are (supposedly) straight. Includes graphic sex scenes. If you are into this sort of thing stay home and rent the spaghetti western Django Kill...If You Live, Shoot! instead, it's a weird and entertaining film that includes an honest depiction of homosexualist cowboys - an entire gang of them. Memoirs of a Geisha: A trio of Chinese honeys infiltrates Japan by disguising themselves as whores. The potential of the premise squandered, as unlike the homosexualist cowboy film Memoirs of a Geisha is only PG-13. The Producers: A pair of real life homosexualists (Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane) portray heterosexual Broadway musical impresarios. Notice the pattern. Do you understand 'Hollywood logic' works now? King Kong: I’ve decided the old-style stop-motion animation is better than tedious modern CGI effects. The latter mechanical
Eminent Mediocrities: the long awaited follow-up to Eminent Victorians. Would be a very funny book.
ReplyDeleteAnd a very long one.
DeleteHa ha. Very true.
ReplyDeleteAn Eminent Mediocrities Blog would be more suited to this endless subject. But I guess we call that 'the news.'