HOLLYWOOD AND ME, AGAIN: Okay, I'm on record as saying I like movies: good, bad, and indifferent. But maybe we need an entirely new evaluative category (I suggest "movies for non-earthlings"). I have read the Golden Globes blurb in the NYT, and behold, these are the plots that merit awarding:
"Brokeback Mountain" -- "It's a Big Country" gone gay all over.
"Syriana" -- CIA and American oil magnates kill handsome young Arabs to sustain ugly old ones.
"Munich" -- Israelis murder Palestinians until, nauseated by the shoddiness of their existence, they move to Brooklyn.
"Good Night, Good Luck" -- American media good, American government bad (but lucky?).
"The Constant Gardner" -- Axis of evil? It's the (American) pharmaceutical companies, of course.
"Capote" -- "The Maltese Falcon" with Sam Spade gone - oh, never mind.
Somebody help me out here.
UPDATE: Help is here. Of a sort. Another message from the earthling portion of the movie audience.
6:33:37 PM 
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