Maybe there’s some saving grace that The Three Stooges pretty much tanked in North America this spring.
The stuff that people used to not really pay for but sat through while waiting for Humphrey Bogart or Cary Grant to romance Katharine Hepburn or Rosalind Russell? People would so want to pay ten bucks for that in 2012, and then buy the DVD for twice that six months later. But now we have this asinine, unnecessary Three Stooges feature film, the result of some overpaid, disengaged cretin in Hollywood coming to the preposterous conclusion that many people would want to see the filler shit as the main event. The stuff to keep the kids diverted before the main event. The thing is: the short - such as the latest instance of Three Stooges nonsense - was part of the filler. (what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)īack in the day, you paid your nickel for an entire day at the movies, at you got cartoons and newsreels and shorts and a crappy movie and a good movie - all for five cents! It was like channel surfing cable TV all afternoon, with popcorn and without the nuclear glow of someone’s smartphone glaring into your eyes in the middle of it. I’m “biast” (con): hate the Three Stooges, hate the Farrelly Brothers
