Originally published on Facebook. The emptiest goddamned thing you can say about any work of art is, “It’s over-rated.” This is a statement often dropped into a conversation like a turd, sometimes without any elaboration: just those two words, which are modified if at all only with the word “really.” These thoughts are prompted by […]
Decades after their music defined a generation, the two surviving members of a legendary sixties quartet are contacted by a residents of a magical land that, once upon a time, they visited and rescued from evil with the joyous power of their music. They have no memory of this, and really, neither one of them […]
Some Of My Unpopular Opinions: * The death of Scarlett O’Hara’s daughter is the campiest scene in GONE WITH THE WIND, unintentionally hilarious as dramatized. * And aside from a few effective set-pieces, the movie as a whole isn’t much better. * Bob Dylan *is* great, but some of his more esoteric images that get […]