Reader George

Ahhhh, it's Xmas time...

Yes!

You'll shoot your eye out!

Those Sony leaked emails are addicting. I find it so interesting to read the inner workings of the upstairs, because at the end of the day, Eric Roth wrote Cleopatra and Aaron Sorkin wrote Jobs. Two writers at the top of food chain can't get their movies made, because of this upper level stuff.

I haven't read Cleopatra, but on the surface, Scott Rudin seems dead-on in calling it a bloated vanity project that is a bomb just waiting to happen and could ruin careers. At this age, with his resume, I could see how he would want no part of it. He has nothing to prove.

Did you read the email from the Sony Marketing Chief on the Jobs script? He was really articulate and passionate, not at all what you expect when you hear all the complaints from filmmakers about how marketing ruins films. I'm not saying I think the marketing dept. should have too much of a say in creative, but it was surprising that he actually cared about the story, not just counting beans.

I may be in the minority, but I found the film to be slow and tedious and mostly a retread of characters that have appeared in his other films.

I enjoyed it more than Darjeeling but it is not up to par with Life Aquatic (My favorite) in any way.

Are you on reddit?

The guy who won the jury prize for his short is on there and he answers questions like this:

Hey, thanks, I'll check it out!

yes, it was painful.

Agreed. I thought that "dream" that movie started off with was some kind of joke "I won't leave you, I will find you" or whatever-the-fuck. I just remember it was cheesy as hell and thought this can't be for real. But it was... and it set the tone for how stupid the rest of the movie was going to be.

Always curious about what's considered copyright. Thank you!

Yeah, "guide" is the freight word.

Romeo y Julieta no 2 is my go to.

Ah yes, big fan. Also enjoying many flavors of El Rey Del Mundo.

"The 'voice of the people'? There is no such thing. You got 240 million voices

all yelling for something different."

@Frobisher: Precisely! Great sparse political commentary seamlessly woven into the story and classic McKee "dialogue as a weapon."

Lost interest and left the site because it was took too long to fake "load." I don't have that kind of patience.

Ah, I think it was the fake load that appealed to my inner geek. I'm interested to see how it plays out.

Just another great reason to be a mac person.

Thanks for the heads up George

You didn't enjoy Mother Bear?

agreed. a mess, storywise.

NY? DC? The Caribbean?

Was just in DC. Pittsburgh now.

Fantasy Football hardcore here. What site do you play on?

Cool. Thanks for posting that.

Tamy!

As he should be and he was essentially. This was just about greed on the part of ACD's estate and trying to shut the barn door after the horses got out. And considering how awful their "official" Holmes novel was last year, it's just as well.