They all had budgets, directors, hopes. But their fate was the same – to end up alone and unwanted in a discount bin. A moved Joe Queenan sets up an orphanage for forgotten films
At the convenience store up the street from my office stands a sad little rack filled with cut-rate DVDs. A sign proclaims "Great DVDs for less than $10", but that is false advertising. There are one or two movies on the rack that are not transparently awful – Shutter Island, Public Enemies – but almost without exception the DVDs, which cost $6.99 apiece, are bombs, duds, direct-to-video trash, flotsam and jetsam, bunkum, twaddle, slime and crap. Current fare includes Observe and Report, a Seth Rogen comedy about inept mall cops; Leaves of Grass, a goofy "comic thriller" starring Ed Norton as identical twins – one an addled drug dealer, one a professor of classics; The Six Wives of Henry Lefay, a comedy...
At the convenience store up the street from my office stands a sad little rack filled with cut-rate DVDs. A sign proclaims "Great DVDs for less than $10", but that is false advertising. There are one or two movies on the rack that are not transparently awful – Shutter Island, Public Enemies – but almost without exception the DVDs, which cost $6.99 apiece, are bombs, duds, direct-to-video trash, flotsam and jetsam, bunkum, twaddle, slime and crap. Current fare includes Observe and Report, a Seth Rogen comedy about inept mall cops; Leaves of Grass, a goofy "comic thriller" starring Ed Norton as identical twins – one an addled drug dealer, one a professor of classics; The Six Wives of Henry Lefay, a comedy...
- 5/19/2011
- by Joe Queenan
- The Guardian - Film News
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