Overheard after a trailer for the redundant apocalyptic spectacle "2012" at the 2:30 p.m. matinee of "Inglourious Basterds" at the Regal Thornton Place Stadium Cinemas in Seattle, WA, August 22, 2009, spoken unironically by a male in his early twenties:

"I'm tired of watching the world end."

Me too.

Jim Emerson

Jim Emerson is the founding editor of RogerEbert.com and has written lots of things in lots of places over lots of years. Mostly involving movies.

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