1/02/2005

Ya gotta go here to a compilation of New York Times quotes. Some real horrors (link courtesy of Country Store) I like this quote best because it is the reason I knew I just HAD to see Passion of the Christ:

"With its laborious build-up to its orgasmic spurtings of blood and other bodily fluids, Mr. Gibson's film is constructed like nothing so much as a porn movie, replete with slo-mo climaxes and pounding music for the money shots….If 'The Passion' is a joy ride for sadomasochists, conveniently cloaked in the plain-brown wrapping of religiosity, does that make it bad for the Jews?"
-- Arts editor Frank Rich's review of "The Passion of the Christ," March 7.
Note that his remark about "plain brown wrapping" refers to the Nazi SS "Brown Shirts." Rich, a Christian baiter if there ever was one, followed up with this one
"It's hard to imagine the movie being anything other than a flop in America, given that it has no major Hollywood stars and that its dialogue is in Aramaic and Latin (possibly without benefit of subtitles)."
-- Frank Rich, attacking Mel Gibson's movie about the last hours of Christ, August 3, 2003. The film grossed $370 million in America.
Then there's this not to be believed until seen movie review:
"Tots surely won't recognize that Santa's big entrance in front of the throngs of frenzied elves and awe-struck children directly evokes, however unconsciously, one of Hitler's Nuremberg rally entrances in Leni Riefenstahl's 'Triumph of the Will.' But their parents may marvel that when Santa's big red sack of toys is hoisted from factory floor to sleigh it resembles nothing so much as an airborne scrotum."
-- Movie critic Manohla Dargis reviewing "The Polar Express" on November 10
Anti-Christmas started at the New York Times. Christmas is like a Nazi rally at Nurenberg with Santa as Hitler, do you need to know more? And my candidate for the penultimate pairing, one that shows just how left these bastards are:
"Devotees from New Delhi to Santiago, in his native Chile, are gathering for breathless readings and deeper discussions of this complicated man, a sensual communist who loved nature almost as much as he loved women, food and wine.…for [Pablo] Neruda, love and beauty vied for attention with social justice."
-- Editorial board member Carolyn Curiel on a tribute to the Communist poet Pablo Neruda, July 6.

Reality Check on Neruda: "We must learn from Stalin/his sincere intensity/his concrete clarity/...Stalin is the moon,/the maturity of man and the peoples./Stalinists, Let us bear this title with pride."
-- from Neruda's eulogy glorifying the mass murderer Josef Stalin.
Read them while seated on the toilet but have a barf bag ready too. They are truly sickening.