apology and blog entry

I have gotten several messages concerning my last entry which was deleted only minutes after being posted. Anyone on the mailing list received a notice of a new entry but by the time many actually looked at my page, the entry had already been removed.

My friend Yates asked me what was up. My brother wanted me to "fess up" and admit what I had done. Yale President Richard Levin wanted to know when I was going to go ahead and delete the rest of my blog... for the good of humanity.

All I can say is that I changed my mind. If you don't like it, contact me so I can tell you to go fuck yourself. Or, simply assume that's what I will tell you and don't bother contacting me.

It's gone. It will never be back. If you didn't see it, you didn't miss anything good. I haven't done much blogging over the past few months simply because I haven't felt like it. I do jump the gun sometimes (especially under the pressure of feeling I have to update) and start something that I later decide sucks. So thats it. It's bad enough you are reading this shit.

But in other news, I was talking to Yates about movies tonight and I was trying to explain why I hated Paul WS Anderson so much (not PTA like I was thinking for some reason). I hate him because he is looking to mess with one of the great cult hits of all time. He is developing a re-imagining" of Deathrace 2000. Please don't fuck with a classic. Get your own ideas and make those into movies. If they are shitty movies I won't say a fucking word since I know you would at least be trying.

Here's what I said about this last year when it was announced:

"The original was so much about decimating pedestrians that the actual race was almost irrelevant, and I want to restore that. Set in 2020, ours is an ultraviolent, no-holds-barred race with heavily armed Escalades, Ferraris and Aston Martins" said Anderson.

Restore what to what?! Are you kidding me?! This quote is proof that Paul Anderson is a simple-minded fool who has apparently missed the point of such a sophistcated film as the original (and yes, that was the sound of your sarcasmatron overloading). If you want to remake a movie by changing what is essentially the SOUL of a film, then DON'T CALL IT A REMAKE! It's like remaking The Godfather without all that arcane mobster crap. I mean, who gets that shit anyway? Or maybe make Platoon 2005 and leave out all that depressing "war is hell" stuff. It's such a downer.

All this guy wants to do is make a movie in the vein of The Road Warrior but not get sued by the people who hold the rights to that series and those people simply have enough sense to not let him near their product.

So lets get rid of Paul WS Anderson. Oh yeah, and while we're at it, can you tell Bret Rattner to not make anymore movies. ESPECIALLY Jackie Chan movies. Rush Hour had its moments, but he chopped up all the fight scenes Chan was in. One of the cool things about Jacki Chan movies is his ability to choreograph (along with his stunt team) these amazing fight sequences. If you've seen any of his Hong Kong movies, you know exactly what I'm talking about. In a scene like that, you don't need any fancy camera work, or rapid fire editing. You turn on the camera, point it in Jackie's direction, and then you let him do the rest.

And please don't tell me that X3 is going to compare with the first two X-men movies. Bryan Singer is a genius. No way Mr. Rattner can follow that up.

What? He followed Ridley Scott once and did okay? First of all, Ridely has his moments, but he's not a genious. Maybe he was once or twice, but most of the time he's just really, really, really good.