I’m Sweating Like Roger Ebert
Life is complicated, man.
I can’t make it any simpler than that.
To combat the intricacies of the cosmos, I made my thought processes simple. I used to think of things in terms of black and white. Yin and Yang. Cut and Dry.
Thumb Up. Thumb Down.
If a movie were good enough, or at least appealing enough to a certain pair of film reviewers, I’d have read “Two Thumbs Up!” in the newspaper ad, seen the phrase on a commercial.
If both thumbs were down, or the thumbs did not agree (true yin-yang dualism), this phrase wouldn’t be plastered all over the film’s marketing. Unless the movie really, really sucked, and its bankrollers had to put “Thumbs Up!” in its ad, which was always so pathetic.
Incidentally, I think a movie that two people agree to hate might be the perfect flick to make sarcastic comments at.
Recently – the last six months or so – I’ve been seeing “Two Thumbs Way Up!” sneaking its way into the vernacular.
Systems everywhere began to fail.
For years the Thumb had only to be pointed upward to signify acceptance. Now, suddenly, we as prospective moviegoers have to pay attention to the angle of its erection? Or is the entire hand further up in the air? Or BOTH??
My mind has been blown, yet again.
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