Not sure where else to post this, but you guys seem to be phoning in some reviews on some SERIOUSLY important cinema.

My example this week was picking up the paper and noticing that THE DAMNED, Visconti's epic and mid you crazy gender bender on Nazi Germany was reduced by whomever the fool was that wrote the capsule to " An account of the rise of fascism in 1930's Germany. SPOILER ALERT: It doesn't end well."

To Quote part of SLANT Magazines description of Visconti's opening scene:

"His sweeping Nazi-era soap opera The Damned is to the WWII genre what a chiffon-clad drag queen brandishing satin scarves is to an audience of racecar drivers. And I'm not just saying that because the film's main antihero, Martin (a fantastically prissy Helmut Berger), is first seen performing at his steel titan father's private birthday concert in Marlene Dietrich Blue Angel getup. (Granted, Bob Fosse's film adaptation of Cabaret is a big old drag queen spectacle too, but taking Fosse's decision to cast Visconti's intense Helmut Griem indicates that The Damned had to be a moderate influence on the 1972 musical.) By the end of the extended opening sequence, the film has already indulged in pan-sexuality, corporate backstabbing, anti-reactionary suppression, pedophilia, and murder plots."

What other film this year spells The Stranger on it better than this. FOR REALS?

Just a request guys. Stop phoning in these things your audience would go ape shit crazy for!

I believe the concept is: if you want usable info go elsewhere. You should only read The Strangler for the HOO-larious witty nonsequiturs.

AW. This review makes me feel bad. I went to the pre-screening and while I didn't love the movie by any stretch it really seemed like a labor of love(mind you the director was there making it seem like a labor of love).

There were people there who really seemed to love it and laughed the entire time. I just wasn't one of them.