I was reading the Village Voice review of Lords of Dogtown and came upon this:
Channeling Amy Heckerling for the post-emo era, Hardwicke's pop-Cassavetes melodrama nevertheless rides as smoothly as a big-budget after-school special, capturing youth struggles from an appropriately blown-out teen's-eye perspective.
What the
fuck
kind of sentence is that? The editor should've circled this in red with the note: "WTF?!?" I've been known to bend a few pop cult references into my sentences, but this is a gross abuse of the technique. It's as involute as a Dennis Miller joke.
If that's the criteria, we should start a campaign to get Plei to write the sequel.
Would Batbale have to wear clothing?
After American Psycho you know the actor wouldn't object to doing without if the story called for it. Write the thing so he has to track down some villain in the Jamaican Hedonism resort.
What the fuck kind of sentence is that?
Is that Hoberman or Atkinson? Sounds more like Hoberman, and not untypical. Sadly, not a major variance with the VV house critical style - if it was about a CD I'd have guessed it was from Christgau's consumer guide.
Based on Tom Cruise's recent public meltdowns, I make the following prediction: War of the Worlds will be the bomb of the summer.
Huh.
Matthew Vaughn quit X-Men3.
It's as involute as a Dennis Miller joke.
Which, is the funnest thign ever, when you can parse the joke (and it is not about his newfound republicanism), but just plain WTF and annoying when you can't. Excellent simile, David -- it made clear exactly what you meant.
Yes, this is two language commentaries in the Movies thread in two days. Because I, guiltily, am not watching movies. (I do have a couple of them at home, but they are sitting on the TV, disconsolate.)
Based on Tom Cruise's recent public meltdowns, I make the following prediction: War of the Worlds will be the bomb of the summer.
Crossing my fingers that it's so.
Join me in praying that Pendragon Pictures' period version of War of the Worlds makes it to our shores and shows Spielberg, Cruise, etc. how it's supposed to be done.