People on quaaludes should not blog.

9 Comments

• John says:

  April 30, 2009 at 7:35 am

  I used to really enjoy read­ing Poland but he has lost his marbles as of late. He is so con­cerned with being the enter­tain­ment media watch­dog that he has pretty much all but ceased to write about actualy movies, and when he does you get non­sense like this. Just ask the guys at Reverse Shot what they think about this idi­ot. Also, he has no sense of humor.

• bill says:

  April 30, 2009 at 8:08 am

  What’s the big deal? It’s not like he’s wrong. WOLVERINE prob­ably ISN’T any­thing like COMING HOME.
  My favor­ite thing about Poland, apart from the fact that he can­’t write and has no sense of humor and thinks he’s funny even though he isn’t, is that he appar­ently views him­self as some sort of media journ­al­ism white knight. The one good cop in a bad town kind of thing. I don’t know, I just think that’s cute.

• Glenn Kenny says:

  April 30, 2009 at 8:20 am

  @Bill: Indeed; Mr. Poland’s recent evoc­a­tion of him­self as a “white suit in a shit storm” was both entirely ridicu­lous and rather poignant. I know it’s good to care about your sub­ject mat­ter, but his sense of pro­por­tion verges on the insane. Nukes could be going off in every corner of the globe, and he’d still be throw­ing fits over Nikki FInke not cred­it­ing Patrick Goldstein, or some such thing. Whatever Poland’s schtick is not (journ­al­ism, for instance), it is very good theater…

• Steven Santos says:

  April 30, 2009 at 10:45 am

  The Hot Blog these days con­sists solely of Poland lec­tur­ing about journ­al­ist­ic stand­ards (which is like Dick Cheney lec­tur­ing to me about the Constitution) and then hav­ing flame wars with the same 10–12 mal­con­tents who com­pete with one anoth­er to see who can come across as more ignor­ant and film-illiterate.
  It’s like the group ther­apy ses­sions in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” with David Poland play­ing Nurse Ratched.

• Herman Scobie says:

  April 30, 2009 at 11:39 am

  Poland’s white suit sets off his tan to perfection.

• jeffmcm says:

  May 1, 2009 at 4:06 pm

  I have GOT to spend more time here than there. Thank you.

• aris p says:

  May 2, 2009 at 2:24 am

  Yes, Jeff, please do.

• Christian says:

  May 2, 2009 at 4:00 am

  I removed myself from the Hot Blog in the nick of time.

• Jeff McM says:

  May 3, 2009 at 5:39 am

  Aris, I’m assum­ing your words are wel­com­ing. So there­fore, thanks!