THE SECOND MILLION BEGINS: And there's no better way to do it than by doing something I didn't do enough for our first million readers -- suck up to Roger Ebert.
For those of you who loved his first compendium of negative reviews, I Hated Hated Hated This Movie, you will be pleased to know that he has finally published Your Movie Sucks, covering the past five years or so. Of one film, he writes "The pun, it has been theorized, is the lowest form of humor. This movie proves that theory wrong. There is a lower form of humor: jokes about dinosaur farts."
Those of you who laughed at this line -- and especially, those who can identify the film which provoked it -- should buy the book immediately. It is fun, inessential reading.
I'll note that there are only three films (so far) which he disliked that I did, in fact, like: The Princess Diaries, which is a formula film that works; Just Friends, because Anna Faris is brilliant in it and my brother-in-law produced it; and Wet Hot American Summer, which Ebert treated as a straight, crappy movie rather than a witty, loving homage to a specific subset of crappy movies.
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