Dreckiness

Or, as Kael wrote of George Lucas when they made Raiders of the Lost Ark, is Spielberg still so "hooked on the crap of his childhood" that he feels a compulsion to keep replicating it on the big screen, in all its unalloyed dreckiness?

But what really stumps me is how this dreck ever saw the light of day in its current state of, well, dreckiness.

To accept childish dreck without protest-or worse, to defend the dreck's obvious dreckiness just because the other parts of a game are cool-is to allow the form to languish forever.

Since I am so familiar with the magazine, I know that dreckiness is not the usual standard by which its subjects are measured.