David Foster Wallace

JESCIE

29Aug12

"It Could Happen To You (the It's A Wonderful Life-w/-lottery twist thing), Jurassic Park (which does not stand up well: its essential plotlessness doesn't emerge until the third viewing, but after that the semi-agoraphobe treats it like a porno flic, twiddling his thumbs until the T. Rex and Velociraptor parts (which do stand up well)), Wolf (stupid), The Little Rascals (nauseous), Andre (kind of Old Yeller with a seal), The Client (with another incredibly good child actor—where do they get all these Olivier-grade children?), and Renaissance Man (w/ Danny DeVito, a movie that tugs at your sentiments like a dog at a pantcuff, except it's hard not to like any movie that has an academic as the hero)." If you've never read DFW's collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (where this paragraph above comes from), bless yourself. David Lynch Keeps His Head is especially essential.