Review of Howl (2010) by Sabra E — 14 May 2011

Does James Franco have a speech impediment? Because whenever he talks he sounds like a moron with cigarette butts stuffed in his cheeks. His articulation has no edges, his consonants sound like what the letters on an eye chart look like to a nearsighted bus driver who needed glasses ten years ago.

I'm pretty sure that if Ginsberg were still alive to watch Howl, he'd have a complex to his last days. He'd ask his friends: do I really talk that way? And they would say no, no, Franco has no edges, and Ginsberg would say: the court scenes were the best thing about that movie inspired by my poem. His friends would agree. And Alessandro Nivola is a doll, I loved him in Junebug. Yes, he handled the role of an intellectual well. But Franco, there's something off about that beefhead. And the entire room would concur, except for one stoner eating cheese doodles in the corner, and he's say: Lay off Franco, man, he was great in Coconut Express.