Why Don't Screenwriters Just Go on Damn Strike??
With all the remakes of old films in the last few years, it's a wonder that writers are getting any work these days. It's sad. And offensive. And the Grandaddy Offensive Never Should be Done Remake of Them All:
The Pink fucking Panther.
WHAT?
And Steve Martin. SHAME on you for even laying eyes and hands on this monstrosity of comedic abortion.
No one. And I mean NOT A ONE can even come close to Peter Sellers' genius in those films.
Hey, Hollywood! Get a goddamned original idea. Wait, here's a novel plan... HIRE WRITERS WHO WRITE THEIR OWN STUFF!
This whole situation makes me feel like art is dying.
The Pink fucking Panther.
WHAT?
And Steve Martin. SHAME on you for even laying eyes and hands on this monstrosity of comedic abortion.
No one. And I mean NOT A ONE can even come close to Peter Sellers' genius in those films.
Hey, Hollywood! Get a goddamned original idea. Wait, here's a novel plan... HIRE WRITERS WHO WRITE THEIR OWN STUFF!
This whole situation makes me feel like art is dying.
posted by LC Greenwood at 12:06 PM
5 Comments:
Did you see "this monstrosity of comedic abortion"? Is it out?
I've seen the trailer.
And, yes, I totally agree. Mr. Martin must have some mountainous debt to pay off. Or, perhaps, it was blackmail...
I have not seen the trailer. I only heard that this was happening and I was praying to the dear Lord above that it wasn't true. Sigh.
Oh, and, 9 times out of 10, out on the West Coast, (lest you forget) it's all show BUSINESS.
Art's got nothin’ to do with it.
The more anything costs, the less "artistic" it’s gonna to be.
Just ask George Lucas, the most successful independent producer/director/toy peddler ever.
“The most obvious problem of modern culture is that there doesn’t seem to be very much more of it.” --Eric Gans (1982)
I have, unfortunately, seen the trailer for this, and the word 'abomination' does not even begin to describe how it looks to me.
Unfortunately, that means it will make $300 million, and then spawn 5 sequels. I'd be willing to bet that, if asked, most people nowadays don't even know that it's a remake.
Sad, sad, sad.
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