Rotten Green Tomatoes

Rotten Green Tomatoes is a new feature that I am going to try out on the website that will appeal mostly to our Greensboro readers. It will be much like Rotten Tomatoes, a website that gathers the opinions of the world's film critics, only it will focus on Greensboro (Rotten Green Tomatoes - Get it?).

There are currently three print film critics working in Greensboro - Yes Weekly's Glenn Baity, The Carolinian's Roger Priddy, and, when he is not using his column to review the rest of the known universe, The Rhino Times' Orson Scott Card. I intend to add a link to each of their reviews each week in order to give exposure to other film opinions in the Triad. Mind you, this is something I am going to try out for a while. If it doesn't work, I'll stop:

This week, Orson Scott Card says he really dug How to Eat Fried Worms:

"If this movie was going to make anybody chuck the bunny, it would have been [my daughter]. And it didn't. So it probably won't nauseate you either."
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Roger Priddy says Little Miss Sunshine is the best movie of the year so far:

"But Little Miss Sunshine finds that magical mesh. It's real, while at the same time being funny. It's funny, while at the same time being real. Heaven."
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And lastly (but definitely not least-ly) Glen Baity finds Neil LaBute's Wicker Man remake to be a mediocre waste of a great cast's collective talents:

"[Neil Labute] heads down a whole new path with The Wicker Man, which is every bit as unintentionally hilarious as Snakes on a Plane was supposed to be. The film's lone saving grace - and this is arguable - is that it might be extraordinary in its mediocrity, making it that rare picture so thoroughly impervious to its own flaws that it demands repeat viewing. Whether or not that happens remains to be seen, but the film surely misses its intended mark. ."

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