CHUD on Paul Haggis

The smartass fanboys over at CHUD can be pretty juvenile at times, and they definitely take a sophomoric, beer-swilling, midnight-movie approach to film--but they're honest-to-goodness cinema fans and often pretty funny to boot. Case in point, Devin Faraci's review of The Last Kiss, which includes this bitterly precise summation of the hackwork of Paul Haggis:

The problem is that The Last Kiss, which is based on an Italian film from a couple of years back, has a screenplay by Paul Haggis. You know, the guy who brought us Crash. So what that means is that The Last Kiss is filled with moments and revelations that are meant to be profound but are in fact completely banal. Everybody is racist! You have to work really hard to keep a relationship going! Next year, look for Haggis’ next Oscar movie, where he teaches us all the moving lesson that when you eat food it eventually turns into poop.

Needless to say, I agree.