Posted by Wolveroach at otter.ir.utk.edu on February 21, 2000 at 12:25:06:
In Reply to: *Yawn* posted by Kevin on February 21, 2000 at 10:38:55:
: Although I see Paul wished testicular cancer on David Fincher in a 'Rolling
: Stone' piece.
I'm sure you'll remember that he blasted Fight Club in the issue of Creative Screenwriting that you were in too, Kev.
So here's what I don't get. He's totally against violence being glorified in films because he thinks that it gives little kids bad ideas, right? Okay, fine. Not my opinion and not one that I think holds a lot of water, but it can be argued. BUT, doesn't he feel that his glorification of sex adn drugs in, hmmmmm, ALL of his movies does the same thing. The porno industry was made to look like the hippest fucking place in the world to be, when , in reality, it has destroyed countless lives (don't get me wrong, I love my "Jenna Loves Rocco" tape). And to attack Fight Club, which, sorry Malcolm, was a really fine indictment of the direction our culture is heading and very proscriptive about the measures needed to stop it, that seems fucking ludicrous.
Sorry for the rant. I even liked Magnolia pretty good. It's just that that self-important fuck gets on my nerves. I loved the part in that Esquire you recommended, Kevin, where he's like "I can't decide whether I want to be like Kubrick or Speilberg." Sweet Jebus, man, who the fuck does he think he is? PTA is the worst effect of a director-oriented approach to movies--a megalomaniac who thinks that final cut is tantamount to godhood. Sigh...Oh well.
Sorry about the ABC thing, man. Fuck the mouse.