Dodgeball
Once or sometimes twice a year, the Washington Film Society holds an event they refer to as the “trailer park†in which they get together a selection of 25-30 coming attraction reels, string them together, find a couple of yahoos to act as hosts, and a splendid time is guaranteed for all (at least when the aforementioned two yahoos shut their traps). At evening’s end, a highly evolved scientific selection process chooses the best trailer of the night. Following the most recent of these events, the sage members of the Film Society chose Dodgeball—A True Underdog Story as the best in show. But you know how it usually works with coming attractions, the better the reel the worse the movie (after all, one of their other finalists that night was the execrable The Chronicles of Riddick). (more…)
