Tuesday, December 25, 2007 Rant Archive
Howdy, you can call me Buzz and I’ll be you writer for this quick look back through the best and worst of network reality TV for the year 2007. But first let me tell you a bit about myself. I am a part-time writer/actor, a full time father of two and devoted husband (sorry Ladies, this one is spoken for). My take on writing and reviewing is that who I am and what I experience while I review is just as important and valid as the traditional unbiased journalistic approach. Objectivity is an unattainable goal so I try to be honest about my own quirks and foibles as I attempt to deconstruct the loud nonsense from my beloved idiot box. Plus I am far more interesting than any of the reality TV contestants so you have that going for you when you read my work.
A lot of people might argue that LETHAL WEAPON is not actually a Christmas movie, but we know what I think about these people and if you’re wasting time reading this and you’re one of these people, well stop reading, duh. This is a movie written by Shane Black. Here’s two facts about Shane Black: he basically invented and mastered the buddy cop genre and one time I ended up at his house in the wee hours of the night and partied until either I was asked to leave or I blacked out—too bad I cannot remember how things ended. Oh well, that’s the life of Los Angeles party monster.
There are lots of holiday films, good and bad, for the discerning viewer to enjoy beside a roaring fire with some eggnog this holiday season. A select few—DIE HARD, THE REF, SCROOGED, a passel of others—have been given the Critics Rant treatment, but I hadn’t seen any mention of one of my favorites, a perennial classic that I made sure to give my son this year for Christmas. I’m speaking, of course, of GREMLINS, the Steven Spielberg-produced classic of sick and twisted measure that remains the only proof that Chris Columbus was ever anything more than the Rick Astley of directors.