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Fan Rant: Why the NY Post's Lou Lumenick is Easily the Worst Film Critic of 2008 (so far)
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The tag line underneath Lou Lumenick's name should read, "Will provide sh*tty film reviews for fifty cents because that's about as much as my opinion is worth." Lumenick, who writes film reviews for the New York Post, is easily the worst critic of 2008 so far -- and, unlike his reviews, I'm actually going to back up that statement.
Lou reviewed The Promotion on Friday and gave it Zero stars. Look, I'll be the first to tell you The Promotion is in no way the greatest film of all time, but it's charming, humorous, human and has a lot of heart. But this has nothing to do with The Promotion, and everything to do with performing the job assigned to you.
Fine. Zero stars. We'll go with that; perhaps Lou spotted enough flaws to warrant the rating. But then I actually read Lumenick's "review" of The Promotion, which starts out saying the film's tagline should change to read, "No Laughs." Really? Because I've watched this film with two different audiences in two different states, and each time the audience was laughing ... a lot. Did you watch it with an audience, Lou? Probably not. But let's move on ...
If 'Star Wars' Met 'The Simpsons'
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For those that have already seen this, you could probably disregard, but I caught this for the first time yesterday and thought it was worthy of your attention. With the Toronto International Film Festival in full swing (have you checked out our coverage yet?), movie news is pretty scarce. So, this gives us time to point you toward a few fun little nuggets hanging around on the internets. Have you ever wondered what it would look like if the opening to The Simpsons was changed to include Star Wars characters, and was set inside the Star Wars universe? Well, that's exactly what I've posted above -- a re-creation of The Simpsons opening, with folks like a young Luke Skywalker (as Bart), Darth Vader (as Homer), Obi-Wan, C-3P0, Han Solo, Chewbacca and R2D2 (as Marge and Maggie, although Ned Flanders makes a cameo as Solo and that Chewbacca looks very much like Barney). The video was created by a guy named Rich Cando, and if you're a fan of either, it's a pretty fun watch.
In related news, will Bart tease a Simpsons Movie sequel in the opening episode of the show's 19th season later this month? Apparently, during that oh-so-classic opening (as mocked in the above video) Bart will scribble "I will not wait 20 years to make another movie" on the blackboard. However, as the NY Post points out, don't go holding your breath thinking those Simpsons freaks are already knee-deep in planning a second installment. According to exec producer Al Jean, "We would only do a sequel if we believed it was a movie that had to be made, just like we did with the first one. We wouldn't want to do it just because the first one was successful, or because we wanted to make money off of a movie. We'd only do it if we had a script that we thought was great [and] there's no script at this point."
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