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popcorn-chugging, sugar-jonesing, under-age nose-pickers

This is the way that New York Times movie critic Manohla Dargis describes the adolescent masses which comprise the bulk of the summer moviegoing public. The phrase simply leapt from the page at my jugular: I cracked an involuntary smile and thought I'd share. Unlike the words so often found herein, Ms. Dargis' opening paragraph is the sort of writing that makes Yours Truly green with envy:

It is our season of stupidity, summertime, that interminable stretch when adults surrender the nation’s theaters to hordes of popcorn-chugging, sugar-jonesing, under-age nose-pickers for whom the cinematic experience means nothing more than recycled big, bigger, biggest bangs. It is the season of mass distraction, of the tent pole, the event movie, the blockbuster.

The "season of mass distraction" bit is subtle, too, if you like such things. But . . . anyway . . . that's it. Just a few lines about chugging, jonesing, and picking.

Enjoy.

---the PL

Posted by earwicker at 11:59 PM