As Jake Gittes said to Lt. Escobar at the end of Chinatown, “Lou, I’m tellin’ ya…you don’t know what’s goin’ on here!” Has there ever been a lazier, gruntier, hairier ball-scratching default front-runner pick than Argo? Lincoln is a Best Picture nominee, yes, but rarified, Kaminski-ized and all but entombed. Lincoln is inflated because it just opened and is flower-fresh in Guru minds and did well at the box-office…but there are little pin holes that people don’t want to look at. Helium is escaping as we speak.
