Todd’s Movie Blog

This is going to be one of the most intense elections in years.  Political slants are popping up everywhere, and I’m not just talking about the Palin skits featuring Tina Fey on SNL or Glenn Beck’s CNN article defending Sarah Palin.  Everybody, and I mean everybody, is putting out their opinions on the upcoming election.  Roger Ebert has three, count’em, three articles on his website.  One is an article expressing his displeasure at the way McCain refused to look directly at Obama during their debate.  The second is a satirical piece making fun of Palin’s apparent inability to answer simple questions during interviews.  Lastly there is a reprint of an earlier article commenting on our current president’s redundant and at times incoherent analogies he uses to make points during speeches and press conferences.  But that’s nothing compared to LA Times’s Pat Goldstein writing in his article “From Film Critic to Political Pundit” making the claim that film critics are better equipped to be political commentators than the people who actually do political commentary.  His article is quoted along with several other’s in Jim Emerson’s take on the subject in his blog article “Why Movie Critics Make Such Good Political Pundits”.

Enough already!  I have no problem with people,  famous or not, expressing their opinions on important political matters in this country,  Freedom of Speech and all that.  But do you have to squeeze it in between articles on Paul Newman’s passing and a re-evaluation of The Godfather II on the home page?  I don’t go to a movie site to read about John McCain, Barack Obama or George W. Bush.  Can’t this be something put off on a separate page with a link where you talk about things other than film?

Of course I’m one to talk, here I am bitching about people bitching about politics on film sites.