The Simpsons Plateau.

The best closing line to any episode of The Simpsons has got to be: “Tell him I’m going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won’t be back for 10 minutes!”  This, astonishingly, was released in 1990, titled “Life On the Fast Lane“.  20 years ago.  What happened since then?  If I were to graph out my liking the Simpsons since it debuted back then to now, it would probably look like a plateau with steep ridges coming up from a valley, with hills to the East (fairly steep incline up to a fairly flat peak, fiarly sharp decline down to a low point, then up only a smudge).  Wait, so my taste for the show resembles the Rohanian capital of Edoras?  That’s just weird.  I was probably the happiest n.e.r.d. EVER when word got out a two-part adaptation of The Hobbit was being made and that Guillermo del Toro was directing in Peter Jackson’s stead.  I might be stoned in the street for this… but honestly, the only bad thing about The Lord of the Rings film trilogy was the directing.  The production design, the acting, the locales, the effects, almost everything about it was stellar BESIDES Jackson, yet he gets all the credit (I guess it was “his vision”).  And I know, “yeah but Jackson won Best Director!” blah blah.  It’s shit.  Best Director is a joke.  You wanna know you NEVER won Best Director?  Oh, just Hitchcock, Altman, Fellini, Kubrick, Bergman, Lynch, Lumet, to only name a few.  Seriously, Best Director means less than even the Nobel Peace Prize now-a-days.  Might as well throw that award at the Simpsons’ writers for plotting The Simpsons Movie around environmental disaster.

-Sonny

~ by sonnywilkins on November 13, 2009.