Dinosaurs Still Rule the Earth

All the news that gives you fits. Does experience count for anything anymore? Today's Newsday had a review of "The Interpreter" by its 20 something review crew, IMPULSE. What a great name for these 20 somethings-no thought is involved-just a knee jerk reaction, an involuntary impulse. Most of these KIDZ hated it because it did not have enough action. One 20 something complained that if you expected the film to be like the first five minutes (where there was an execution by gunfire) then you should get your money back. Another spent so much time at the concession stand and restroom that she probably missed crucial scenes, so of course she did not understand it. Can't the younger generation appreciate the dialogue and the coming to grips with mortality portrayed by two academy award winning actors, Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn? Does everything have to have car chases? Newsday revels in the greatness of these 20 something reviewers. I applied online a few months ago to be a possible Impulser and I am still waiting to hear (FFC-right?) from them. These young reviewers have not the experience enough of this "thing we call LIFE" to appreciate the finer nuances of loss and redemption that we veterans have been through. What is it with this glorification of the youth culture? Certainly we newly arrived AARP members have much more disposable income than these 20 somethings! We "baby boomers" have shaped this country both for good and for bad (look who's president) and our voices (the voices of experience) surely count more than this pablum of drivel served up daily by Newsday's IMPULSE review Crew. We dinosaurs need to start asserting out rights and opinions before it is too late. We have already seen a Wogical ripple of the "suck-sess" of this so called youth culture at the Wog. "The Interpreter" is a real life drama on a multiplicity of levels, like an onion skin, that these 20 somethings cannot begin to comprehend. All they can do is whine and cry and give up before getting to the crux of the matter after peeling off perhaps only the first layer. Go and see "The Interpreter" for yourself and see how well you can relate to the plot and excellent acting. That's the problem with critics-they feel that they need to be Critical in order to be Successful. All they end up doing is sucking themselves.