The willing suspension of disbelief still thrives, as critical sensibilities are abandoned beneath the hopes for entertainment pellets, dispensed to lab rat audiences, gazing at screens.......

I sorta and regrettably watched ten minutes of the worse guns, bombs, knives and ninja-kickfighting, cellphone-obsessed, closed-space action film, from a dozen years ago......."NON-STOP"..from the too-young producer of KICKASS 2, Jeff Wadlow.....Even with great actors...in this drivel for the bucks Mall movie...... The cast: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong'o and Linus Roache should turn their "serious" acting shingles to the wall~! This junky movie makes even Marvel and D.C. Comics junk seem intellectually valid and plot-perfect......I should have taken a clue, since it was double-billed with a billion buck comic book adaptaflick, CAPTAIN AMERICA....something or another capeless men-in-lycra movie for the infantiles that have abandoned their teddy bears to the muzzles of their dogs and moved on to wanton cruelty.

ROOTIE KAZOOTIE

 

My grandfather got a Televiewing apparatus, housed in a bulky cabinet, in 1949....soon, there appeared such silly stuff as Captain Midnight, Winky Dink and Rootie Kazootie....... I still have the "magic decoder", the "magic screen" and my Rootie doll, a constant companion to the wooden modelling doll and Scarlett...yum, yum.......let's make a Kazootie Witch peanut butter, banana and jelly sandwich.

AND.....THERE WAS "WINKY DINK"..........



makes the junk on kiddy tv, now, look pretty sophisticated, doesn't it? {it was fun to draw on the screen, though...i had to remember to wipe the screen before my grandfather watched Edward R. Murrow's See It Now, however}