Sucker Punch Squad or Just Plain Sucker?

I got a bit of a laugh out of this Big Hollywood post which plans to offer a new perspective on film criticism:

Over the past few weeks, thanks to a courageous Whistleblower — a dedicated, savvy and patriotic individual — Big Hollywood has accumulated, not one, not five, not twenty… but nearly fifty television and film screenplays at various stages of development. Some of these scripts represent projects that have been completed and await release. Some represent projects that will never see the light of day.

But we have them. And we’re going to share them with you.

Not the actual screenplays. That would be wrong. But with the tireless help of a group of Big Hollywood contributors, we’ve created The Sucker Punch Squad. Their mission (and they have been kind enough to accept it) is to give you – the public tired of paying for the privilege of being insulted — a heads up in advance of the political, social and otherwise obnoxious content Tinseltown’s artless propagandists thought they were going to get away with forcing on those of us they laughingly call The Unsuspecting Rubes.

I’m just imagining the person stumbling out of the movie theater, red-faced and pissed because their delicate sensibilities have just been assaulted by left wing propaganda. ¬†The Sucker Punch Squad is on the case.

Their first threat:

Tomorrow we begin with a review of film already being touted as a 2010 Oscar contender. Not because anyone’s seen it and finds it really, really good.

They just think it’s “important.”

And we all know what “important” means in this town.

I wonder what film John Nolte is talking about and where this supposed Oscar buzz is coming from? ¬†When you think Oscars 2010 what film springs to mind? ¬†More importantly, what film springs to mind that John Nolte got his fingers on? ¬†The Social Network maybe? ¬†Wouldn’t they just love to stamp an Aaron Sorkin script with the SUCKER PUNCH SQUAD!

In a later post, Nolte gives another teaser — by the way, this post has some kind of Hollywood executive putting in his two cents:

P.S. We have a hot review all set for tomorrow. Big stars, big director, a release date already set. You won’t be at all surprised the film has a liberal bent, but to say it’s unsubtle to the point of lame and insulting would be an understatement.

I don’t think the Sucker Punch is this predictable, snoozy piece on Sean Penn’s Fair Game. At least I hope that’s not all they got. ¬†At least that writer, Mark Tapson, offers up this message at the top of his post, just in case one might be inclined to take him to task for a sight unseen bad review:

[Editor’s Note: Script reviews of upcoming projects have been around for as long as there’s been an Internet. Therefore it’s no secret that a film can evolve into something quite different from its screenplay.¬†Please keep in mind that this article represents a¬†look at a particular script and not the final product.]

Do they really care about the final product, though? ¬†Sounds to me like they’re saying that no matter how good the movie is they’ll trash it for its politics alone.