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Re: Movies that critics have never liked but that stood the test of Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:37:09 +0000 (UTC)

On Jul 20, 9:47 pm, George Ruch wrote:

> Granted, Ellroy has a lot more baggage than most of us, but that
> was on demon he should have exorcised in private.

The effect it had on me was that I began to suspect all of his
previous work. That is either unfair or the point. When I began
reading LA Confidential, I realized that essentially it's the same
book as "The Black Dahlia" with just different conflicts for the dicks
seeking some alpha level. Maybe I'm being sarcastic here but it still
comes down to boys talking dirty and who gets to screw the virgin or
the whore. I'm just so over Ellroy playing out his fantasies in
vintage scenarios where he gets to be racist and .ist and swears
he's just being historically accurate. I'm no prude or some liberal
who takes issue with . or race per se but to me Ellroy is one sick
dude who isn't hiding that fact very well. Don't get me wrong, I love
a twisted story but I've lost all respect for James Ellroy because his
demons aren't all that interesting. He's scurrilous and a guilty prude
with a vocabulary who titilates his readers with everything they
shouldn't find valuable. Ultimately, I find his work dishonest at its
core and I just can't take the sick bastard seriously anymore.

William
www.williamahearn.com
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