Friday, August 15, 2003

Best Since King Kong vs. Godzilla! Today's movies keep getting worse and worse. But, on the bright side, the movie reviews making fun of them keep getting better and better. I have no plans to see the just-released "Freddy vs. Jason" movie (not even on video). But I thoroughly enjoyed how the critics slashed the movie to pieces (links here, here, here, and here).
The Washington Post skewers both Jason ("Though he moves with the speed of a man checking out a buffet spread, Jason somehow always manages to overtake his younger, fitter quarry ...") and Freddy, outfitted in his trademark tattered red and green sweatshirt ("It's possible that a generation of teenage boys has related to Freddy primarily because of his slacker duds and problematic complexion."). Maybe somebody should make a movie about a movie critic.

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