Tom Moran's Summer Movie Picks

Gore Vidal used to say, "Don't vote -- it only encourages them" (although I doubt he said that when he was running for Congress in 1960).

Well, that's kind of how I feel about movies. Big Hollywood movies, anyway. Spending money on huge, bloated action/adventure movies taken from some stupid comic book only enables the bad behavior of the movie studios and their pandering to teenage boys and the lowest common denominator.

So what's my advice for moviegoers this Summer? You guessed it: don't go to the movies.

The studios need to be taught a lesson, and the only lessons they listen to are the ones that hit them in the wallet. So here are my rules for Summer moviegoing:

• Do not see any movie based on a comic book.
• Do not see any movie based on an old television show.
• Do not see any movie produced by Jerry Bruckheimer or directed by Michael Bay.
• Do not see any movie produced by a major studio (with some exceptions).

So is there anything out there you should see? Well, yes.

I would encourage everyone to go see "A Prarie Home Companion," because Robert Altman is one of our greatest living filmmakers. I would encourage people to go to places like the Angelika in New York and see as many independent films as they can -- films that are made with passion, and not with the hope of being #1 at the box office on its opening weekend.

And go see "An Inconvenient Truth."

Tom Moran