Angry Robot

Start Your Content-Publishing Engines

It’s on. Rock n’ roll, lock n’ load, let’s make it hot, and other action-commencement platitudes: ÿ and I (isn’t that some kinda secret-reggae thing?) are locked in a deadly competition for most posts this month (if I understand it correctly). And with posts like this, how can he beat me? In fact, as some kind of try not to say ‘shock and awe’ horrify and impress tactic, I plan to surpass my one-day post record this day. I need only two more.

Okay… I was going to try to slip that one in there, but ÿ felt the need to actually say something in his competition announcement post, so I better do likewise. Does anyone consider Catch Me If You Can a good film? Has no-one noticed that Steven Spielberg is falling apart, onscreen? His last five features are Catch Me If You Can, Minority Report, AI, Saving Private Ryan and Amistad. Scour those films for anything of merit other than an opening battle scene. Everyone hates AI and Amistad; Saving Private Opening Battle Scene – well, even if I let you have that one, that’s still only one good film in the last five. Only Oliver Stone could have made his last two any longer. Frankly, few other directors would be allowed to turn in a two-and-a-half hour caper movie, and fewer still could get Hanks & DiCaprio in it, and even fewer still could cram in the sap n’ yawns like Spielie can lately. HEY NOW! Let’s get with the program, Steve-O! And I even liked The Lost World!

Ah… shooting fish in a bucket. In closing, I’d like to remind everyone that in this little competition, quality doesn’t matter at all.