Boy Howdy's Last Tango: Top Ten Eyeball Kicks
You're probably as tired of Ten Best lists as we are; after all, they do suck.
"Bog Hdwdyh Last Tango: Top Ten Eyeball Kicks
You're probably as tired of Ten Best lists as we are; after all, they do suck. And the reason they suck is simply that they're forcing you to swallow somebody else's subjective verdict according to critical/ aesthetic standards that're dubious when you can make "em out at all. Like this or that young cineaste alerts us all to the minutest structural inaccuraces in Billy Jack and you gotta wonder whether he/she's copped his/her criticalese from Andrew Sarris or Pauline Kael. There are exceptions, but generally CREEM's standard for judging movies is as sheer entertainment: did it keep you awake, will you get leg cramps, would you tell your friends to go see it. The following are movies we've been telling everybody to go see all year, the listmakers" last tango — we engaged several confreres" lists in the final tally. Thanks to Ed Naha, Vince Aletti, and our staff here. — Ed.
