Maurnold X. Thurbin Pans Movies in Verse: Bedtime Stories
Flashback! Lately I've been pulling out older poems that never saw much light of day, but that I'm fond of. This poem circa 2009 is—okay, check out this concept: it's a movie review in rhymed couplets by the fictitious poet Maurnold X. Thurbin, a creation of The Filthy Critic . Many years ago—back in the 20th century—I wrote video reviews as Gooden Worsted in an alcove off of Filthy's site, which site garnered attention by making it into Rolling Stone and garnering nods from author Stephen King. Filthy's angle is that he uses a lot of profanity while delivering very incisive reviews that actually have a lot of integrity. Gooden's angle was that every film rated between nine and ten stars, and all pans were backhanded. Maurnold's angle was to be the rhymed couplets thing. This is the only prototype I wrote. I'd say you should go watch Bedtime Stories so you know what's going on in the review... but don't. Maurno...