Posted by Walt Flanagan's Dog at host.159-142-140-69.gsa.gov on March 21, 2001 at 14:32:31:
In Reply to: Message To Anyone Trying To Rip Me Off posted by TangoMania on March 21, 2001 at 14:22:36:
:) You got me! (Is that really you in the picture? what is that your sitting next to?)
If it's really your birthday, I hope you gave a good one...
WFD or am I? :)
: This includes Kevin, Smalls, or anyone else trying to cop off some of the white hot heat that is fucking Tango fucking Mania:
: Don't front me. Don't even fucking front.
: Garth AND Harry BOTH published my Psycho review. That means I'm a spy that works for BOTH Dark Horizons AND Aint It Cool News. I do not think Sir Walt Flannagan's Dog can say as much, and here I am, a respected guest at Viewaskew.
: The fact is, I am the most valuable non red poster that comes here. Almost everyone else who posts in black is wasting your time. Frankly, the fact that I am not posting in red is a slap in the face to the term "genius."
: If I can be insulted in public by Walt's Dog, then who's next? Kevin? Malcolm? VINNIE? LYNCH? Where does it fucking end? Think about it for a fucking second. This isn't bullshit. This is the fucking way it is, man. What, when Newsaskew is usurped by fucking Walt's Doggie Bone News, what will you do? Where will you go?
: Once every hundred years a movie comes along that changes the way we look at the world. During the civil war, the movies of that era brought together the soldiers as they realized the futility of the battle they were fighting. "Down Home", the film that united a broken country and made Abe Lincoln free the slaves, was the first defining movie of our culture. Today, I have witnessed the second.
: Gus Van Sant took a huge risk when he decided he was going to delve into the brain of Hitchcock and claim his ideas and shots as his own. But the experiment works, taking a slightly scary movie and making it the most frightening, intense vision of horror seen this side of "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". The color makes this movie crackle, and the updates (making $4,000 into $400,000) are pure genius. Who could have thought up these changes? Not me. But that’s why I’m homeless, I suppose, and why Gus Van Sant and Brian Grazer run hollywood with an iron spoon. One of the major changes in the film touched me deeply. While Norman Bates spies on Marion Crane he begins touching himself and moaning, something that pansy ass Hitchcock would never have though of.
: As Vince Vaughn undid his pants and explored his manhood, something about the reality of the scene made me weep. Seeing it in color gave it that added push (when masturbation is portrayed in black and white it is not realistic) and I knew what I had to do. Against my girlfriend’s wishes and to the dismay of the small child next to me, I slid my hand down my pants and connected with what I saw on screen. Together we were one, Norman Bates and I, as we spied on Marion Crane together. We tugged and pulled and I blocked out my girlfriends tears and the small child’s confusion. I ignored the questions from the small child: There was no time to explain. I was having a moment. I was lost in a vision of truth so piercing that my body could not contain itself.
: Never before have I been so close to someone’s madness. Gus Van Sant is a genius. After I was done I explained to the child what had happened and he left for the bathroom with a smile on his face. My girlfriend began to be turned on and we made love and broke an arm rest ($20) Gus Van Sant is the most creative person on this earth except for God because God created Gus Van Sant. After seeing this movie I am not sure who would win in a fight between Gus Van Sant and God, but I know who I’d rather have over for a dinner party. Gus Van Sant! I would invite him over and we would eat hot dogs and discuss how he thought up the masturbation scene. Wow!
: I recommend that everyone sees this movie at least three times and never sees the Hitchcock version again. Also, rent a Brian De Palma movie because he is a genius as well. Hitchcock is nothing compared to these two visionaries and just rips them off. Watch their movies and look at the sameness of them. Hitchcock is a thief. I know Van Sant is planning on making USHERS (color remake of Clerks) and a color shot for shot remake of Schindler’s List starring William H. Macy. I am excited at both of these prospects, even more so after today. Gus Van Sant can do anything he want. I also heard he is doing a color shot for shot remake of the 1902 classic "A Trip to the Moon." This is exciting news as well. That film is outdated and would benefit from ILM’s special effects. I will see that movie.
: In closing, go see Psycho tomorrow and support Van Sant’s experiment. If you don’t that would be a tragedy for Van Sant and he might have to stop making movies. That would be bad so see this movie twice and tell your friends and family to see it. Take little kids and tell them it’s not a movie. Tell them it’s real. If they say it’s just a bastardization of Hitchcock well, they’re wrong, and show them this review as proof. Color remakes forever. Who needs black and white?
: -=Scott=-