Tabloid movies

Tabloid movies

: NY Times movie critic gets all haughty/populist about the success of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and Mel Gibson’s Passion.

But I have a different theory about it. I say this is the tabloidization of movies.

Says Scott:

…we are willing to pay good money to be provoked, enraged, exalted and challenged.

I’m aware that, in saying “we,” I’m being somewhat disingenuous