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For those unfamiliar with the concept of the Mary Sue, she — or he, sometimes called a Marty Stu — is a character who is absolute perfection: brilliant, kind, generous, noble, gorgeous… but not in anyway that’s annoying. Oh no: Everyone falls madly in love with the Mary Sue…
Could be good-strange, could be bad-strange, could be strange-strange. And how did the strange ending impact your overall enjoyment of the film?
We have turned what should be serious discourse about the state of the nation and our culture into a sort of circus sideshow more concerned with entertaining audiences than with addressing the many problems we face. Can this ever change?
Imagine that all the usual important stuff — your children, your pets, family photos, important papers, and the like — is accounted for. That leaves you to pick the one thing you love selfishly just for itself…
Hint: It’s not Season of the Witch…
We should start by removing all the violence from The Godfather — that gives children terrible ideas! — and all the dead corpses from Schindler’s List: so unpleasant!
I’d love one that flips right past Fox News… or, indeed, any channel I don’t want to even accidentally expose my brain too. My cable remote has a “favorite channel” feature, but it would be much easier if there were a “hated channel” option…
The just-announced cohost of Ebert’s new review show is all of 24 years old. It means he was 10 or 11 when Christy Lemire, the show’s other host, starting working as a film critic. WTF?
Does Hollywood truly intend to be more creative, more original… or is this just a clever new marketing tactic?
I won’t use the word resolutions, because it gets a bad rap… and also because it covers only things we can personally control ourselves, and sometimes our hopes and dreams aren’t entirely things we have total power over…
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