She Treads Softly: Movie Dude Weekend: slug edition

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Movie Dude Weekend: slug edition

Three movies last night from the Nightmare Worlds 50 movie pack:

Maciste in Hell, 1925, silent movie

star: Bartolomeo Pagano

The Fury of the Wolfman, 1972
star: Paul Naschy

They, 1974
star: Paul Bentzen
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Movie Dude: It always feels better to blame somebody.

Wonder Boy: Only short term Long term it leads to a hollow and meaningless existence.
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Inevitably, as we watched our movies and talked, the conversation last night turned to slugs and keeping slugs as pets. Just Me and Movie Dude had to have a frank discussions with me about the mating habits of slugs.

Just Me: "That's all the slugs did for fun."

She found a video online from The Discovery Channel's Animal Planet to show me. The video had a warning about the disturbing contents. I should have heeded the warning... The video narration ended with the observation, "Nature's most gymnastic lovers have earned their rest."

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John Updike's six rules for reviewing:

1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

2. Give him enough direct quotation--at least one extended passage--of the book's prose so the review's reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste.

3. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis.

4. Go easy on plot summary, and do not give away the ending.

5. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author's oeuvre or elsewhere. Try to understand the failure. Sure it's his and not yours?

To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser.....Review the book, not the reputation.... Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys in reading, and all our discriminations should curve toward that end.