And Now, This Special Message for the Movie-Challenged...

Hi. TheGreatWhiteDope here.

I know many of you out there like to relax, sit back, pick up your favorite remote control and watch a movie. Hey, who doesn't? After all, it sure beats reading. But then comes the age-old problem: what to watch?

There are those for whom relaxing and watching a movie means to watch something that is, to put it quite bluntly, good. And I mean "good" as in a movie like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Ben Hur, The Odessa File, The Music Man, something along those lines.

You know; films that have a universal reputation of being just plain good. Non-harmfully, substantially, soul-enrichingly and overall just plain-old good. Good in a way where you are talking to your friends and you say, "I saw Citizen Kane last night" and they respond by nodding positively and saying, "Yeah; that's a real good movie".

Good like that.

But then there are others out there for whom relaxing, sitting back, picking up your favorite remote control and watching a movie consists of sifting through your choices and watching something the likes of Starcrash, The Beast Within, Nukie or The Trial of Billy Jack and simply nothing else will fit the bill.

Terms of Endearment? Feh.

The Best Years of Our Lives? Whatever.

The English Patient? Let me know when its over; I'll be over here....

You're too discerning for that. After all, this is your time, your entertainment thirst that's being quenched. Do you really care about what's on Roger Ebert's Top Movies In The Whole Freakin' Galaxy list? Or Pauline Kael's Watch These Movies or Be Labeled a Communist rundown? Certainly not.

Roger Corman's Shortest-Produced Movies list? NOW you're talkin'.

But there are still those out there who must - no, demand - to have this explained to them in terms they understand.

For those individuals, I present this brief PSA (some material NSFW - no nudity, sorry):



And now that you have been sent on the right highway, go rent They Saved Hitler's Brain...and thank me later.

I'm TheGreatWhiteDope, and I approve this message.

Dope out.

-TGWD