DVD Round-up: THE CHAMP redux and presidential poo

Ron Howard‘s movies are much like 3-ply toilet paper, preferable perhaps to other brands due to superior production values yet, in the end, just as full of crap. Opie’s efforts are all lavishly staged and simply scripted. They are Spielbergian in their obvious intent to pander to common denominators lower than Verne Troyer at a limbo contest. (Imagine that!) THE DA VINCI CODE, CINDERELLA MAN and A BEAUTIFUL MIND may have been designed as Oscar®-bait, but wound up as chum for undiscriminating critics instead. FROST/NIXON may boast a tremendous performance by Frank Langella as (un)pardonable(?) asswipe Richard Nixon, yet the film still suffers from the director’s affection for bombast and bloat. Instead of renting FROST/NIXON, I suggest you consider the two titles highlighted in the THINK! piece below. Watch today’s video blog, trot to the video store, then draw your own conclusions.

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