"A work of shimmering, glimmering genius" - Stephen Fry
Gordy LaSure’s passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he’ll even
watch
a film. But most of all he loves
talking to people
about film: whether a comely student with low confidence and a father complex, a Studio "development' exec who doesn’t trust his own judgement, or the countless people Gordy LaSure’s encountered in his capacity as the web moderator on an Excessive Sweating Discussion Forum. Gordy LaSure’s
always
talking about films and how they’d be a shit ton better if only people would pull their asses out of their ears and listen to Gordy LaSure.
The voyage of this book can be categorized as an attempt to understand How In Hell Film Works. Why are some films bad, and some films
terrible?
How come just a handful of films (
Titanic, Porky’s, Dirty Harry
) are
any good at all
? Gordy’ll tell you How and Why, and he’ll give you a slug of Wherefore on the side. And he doesn’t shoot from the hip; he shoots from the gut.