October 19, 2007

Film Critic Quote of the Day

The AV Club's Nathan Rabin, in the entry for the apparently justifiably little-seen Iraq war film "Home of the Brave," as part of the "My Year of Flops" series:

Watching Brave repeatedly go over the top, then keep going, I was reminded of the line in Futurama where Zoidberg’s uncle, the legendary silent-screen crustacean Harold Zoid, insists that in talkies everyone must run the full gamut of emotions in every scene. But even an incorrigible ham like Zoid would draw the line at Biel’s bitter ex-boyfriend grousing, “I guess it only takes one good hand to push people away” (take that, disabled veteran!). Incidentally, it only takes one angrily upraised finger to give the film the salute it so richly deserves.
It's always good when you can bring Zoidberg into a discussion that has nothing to do with Futurama. I do that all the time with Slurm.

Posted by Stephen Silver at October 19, 2007 04:54 PM
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