No director has been more shamefully mistreated by Hollywood than Joe Dante, whose ability to lace ostensibly commercial entertainments with pointed political and social satire is often completely ignored by the mongoloid masses holding forth in print and (mostly) online as "film critics". Now that, according to Dave Kehr, he's tackling the issue of the day in a forthright and characteristically grotesque manner, watch him suddenly fall back into favor with the imbeciles who couldn't realize he was cutting just as deeply with Small Soldiers or Matinee (hell, there's even intellectual merit in his much-castigated Looney Tunes feature). Dante's Masters of Horror episode will air December 2nd on Showtime, and, with the scumbag-riddled Bush Administration making a foolish last ditch effort to spin anew the lies that squandered our military might and international standing, it sounds as if it could very well raise his professional profile to a level not seen since the release of Gremlins (which will always be my favorite film from that legendary summer of 1984). Hopefully, it'll also help fan the flames currently engulfing the White House, which, if we're lucky, will keep burning until we get the "accountability moment" voters were too timid or confused to demand last year.
American film needs smarter agitators. Down with Moore, up with Dante!
Please forward this to Joe Dante? After hearing about "Homecoming" ( I don't get cable) desperate to share this with others. similar sentiment.
ABATTOIR is the SF reality Comic strip.
EPISODE 5: ThanksGiving Prayer (with apologies to William S. Burroughs) has recently been posted. You
can view it here:
http://homepage.mac.com/kspwgs/comiclife/
scroll to the bottom of the page.
Episodes so far:
1. Our Ending So Far…
2. I Was the President's Speech Therapist
3. Earth: It's What's For Dinner
4. Curse of the Current Event
5. ThanksGiving Prayer
Posted by: Ward Smith | December 11, 2005 at 06:52 PM