Quote of the week
Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, possibly expressing dismay at The Twilight Saga: New Moon, released this month:
The movie includes beauteous fields filled with potted flowers apparently buried hours before by the grounds crew, and nobody not clued in on the plot. Since they know it all and we know all, sitting through this experience is like driving a pickup in low gear though a sullen sea of Brylcreem.
Ebert gives the film, in lieu of stars, a little dab.
Charles Pergiel »
20 November 2009 · 5:47 pm
Heh. Good quote. There’s another part of the review that caught my eye: “…in which she does nothing to explain why she is helplessly attracted to these sinister, humorless and vain men.” I see a lot of this in Law & Order (I watch a lot of Law & Order). We’re talking about teenagers here, who have very little idea why anyone does anything, so expecting one to come up with an explanation is like expecting Mary Poppins to show up on your doorstep.