Stuff I’ve been doing:
* running a wildly fun roleplaying thingy for Halloween. Steve and Brian and I put it together and recruited 8 lucky souls to the cause. It were creepy and funny and involving and a success! Huzzah. We’re currently looking at re-spining it to make it even better the next time we run it, which should be soon…
* eating meals at Monster Mash. Yum. Monster Mash.
* seeing movies. Like The Corporation (groove) and AVP (er).
* reading stuff. Like, finally, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. By co-incidence, Apocalypse Now was on TV here the night before I finished it. Choice. Also: Michael King’s Penguin History of NZ, again, and Rory Stewart’s the Places In Between.
* buying stuff. I’ve been a bit of a retail fiend this past week. All comfort buying, I think. Stupid books! I don’t need more books! Gah.
* eating vegetables. Yum. Vegetables.
* writing lyrics for a hip-hop remix of ‘Mull of Kintyre’. No, I can’t share them, I’ve deleted them. Even as an exercise in deliberate badness they were too awful. And we shall never speak of this again.
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“writing lyrics for a hip-hop remix of ‘Mull of Kintyre'”
Couldn’t be worse than the original lyrics. “Smiles in the sunshine and tears in the rain” – how’d you think of that one, Macca?
Now, a hip-hop version of Careless Whisper…
AvP was an aggravatingly stupid film.
Have you seen the docos on the Alien Q’logy DVDs? There’s a telling moment when David Giler, who had been previously very talkative about the other films, shrugged Alien: Resurrection off and said it was a studio decision and nothing to do with him or Walter Hill. I’m guessing this was much the same.
I haven’t watched all the Quadrilogy docos yet (God, has anyone? Soooo maaaany…) but I think you’re right – studio decision. Classic case of ‘development hell for ten years, then suddenly green light and rush to do everything in six months’.
There were moments of great visual glory (the trapped Queen being crawled over by its aliens, the alien exulting in a shaft of light after killing that wrestling-man predator) and great clumsiness (the Queen’s escape immediately after that and pretty much everything with the Queen actually and most of the Predator stuff and most of the movie really).
The characters here made those in the original Predator seem deep and well-rounded.
And everytime the script opened its mouth, stupid stuff came out. (The Aztecs used base ten! So the maze will change every ten minutes! Because the Aztecs also counted in minutes!) And whenever anything happened, it pretty much didn’t matter.
The Hyams script was waaaaaay better. And that sucked. What a bummer.
Actually ~m you can’t say: [not election] etc…
I’m sure you have read Steve Braunias’s end of Listener column and will therefore know that AVP was a thinly disguised political movie about the American election…
Hello, my name is Paul W.S. Anderson. Before writing & directing AvP, I made several other movies:
Resident Evil (writer/director)
Soldier (director)
Event Horizon (director)
Mortal Kombat (director)
Shopping (writer/director)
I’ve also written the screenplay for Resident Evil: Apocalypse. I cannot for the life of me understand why people still expect my movies to be any good whatsoever given my track record. But I’ll keep making movies so long as people are still stupid enough to plonk down money to watch them.
I didn’t make Magnolia, by the way. That was a different Paul Anderson, one who was born with a brain.
That list reads like an indictment sheet. But at least Event Horizon was mildly scary. Hard to imagine a more frightless aliens movie than AVP. Maybe they should’ve left out all the humans and shot it from the predators perspective, as he was the deepest character. And the best actor. And the only one who acted with any logic. And had the best dialogue.
How did they ruin so thoroughly the horror icon of Alien?
Meanwhile: John Woo directs He-Man The Movie.
We are living in Bizarro world.