|Individual Entry
Land of Whimsy / news / Individual Entry
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Okay, now I REALLY want to see this movie
6:42 PM / Cinema / 
2 Comments
Our dear friend Christopher Tookey, resident film critic at Britain's most popular right-wing crackpot gutter rag, the Daily Mail (and the man who spearheaded a campaign to have David Cronenberg's CRASH banned back in 1996 after reacting with fury to its theme of "sex with cripples" - his own words, folks, not mine), has let rip with a particularly potent flurry of his usual vitriolic bile.
The target this time is Matthew Vaughn's new film KICK-ASS, which, until I read this review, had more or less passed under my radar, but is now near the top of my list of films I must see this year. In the estimation of the ever-lucid Mr. Tookey, KICK-ASS
deliberately sells a perniciously sexualised view of children and glorifies violence, especially knife and gun crime, in a way that makes it one of the most deeply cynical, shamelessly irresponsible films ever.
Yeah, Chris. Sure. Whatever you say.
It just gets funnier the further you read, save for a particularly tasteless moment where the reprehensible Tookey, an ambulance chaser of the highest order, invokes the names of murdered children James Bulger and Damilola Taylor in a cynical attempt to give his slavering rant credibility. Seriously, I know millions of deluded Middle Englanders actually consider the Mail to be a reputable newspaper, but please tell me no-one seriously considers its film reviews section to be anything other than the personal soapbox for a sad, vindictive little toad.
2 Comments
To combat spam, commenting is automatically disabled on entries older than 30 days.
Did a comment you tried to post accidentally get eaten by the spam filter? It happens from time to time. I get upwards of 200 spam comments every day and unfortunately don't have the time to weed through all of them in case something genuine ended up there by mistake. If one of your posts gets incorrectly flagged as spam, email me at m.r.mackenzie[at]gmail[dot]com and I'll do my best to retrieve it.
Archives
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- News Archive Index
Categories
- Animation
- BD Impressions
- Blu-ray
- Books
- Cinema
- DVD
- Games
- General
- HD DVD
- Model Railways
- Music
- Podcast
- Reviews
- Technology
- Television
- Web
1. Brian said:
Must be a fun place to work -Imagine sitting between Tookey and the Mail's other gibbering half wit, Baz Bamigboye, watching them get worked up into self-righteous fury on a daily basis.
(Posted on Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 1:44 PM)