I'd Like 10,000 Marbles Please

they both were crappy. madhavi spent the Life Aquatic leaning over to me every ten minutes to say, "this is terrible." as a massive Rushmore fan, i felt the need to defend it, but frankly, it sucked. there was one scene i liked, with Bud Cort who's kinda cute as middle-aged dude. the rest of it was like watching a student film made by Paris Hilton on bad acid. with Bill Murray. bail out Bill! Wes Anderson has officially lost the plot.

and Million Dollar Baby? sure. i love Clint. and Hillary and Morgan are fine actors. but this was just a run of the mill boxing picture with a sunday melodrama ending. it was only missing Hulk Hogan to be Rocky III. or was that Rocky II? who can tell?

i'm really not sure what either movie was about. and that's a perfect segue into my next bit of very very exciting news!

i am the grand prize in the First Annual Query Letters Contest!

if you haven't checked out Query Letters I Love yet, it's a blog run by ManagerGuy in hollywood who posts the worst script ideas he gets from writers and those who consider themselves writers. then the readers make fun of them mercilessly.

i suggested a contest for worst query of 2004 with the grand prize being having a movie made from it by me and four friends in an afternoon with no more than twenty bucks.

game on!

second prize is having the query actualized by some other guy with a digital camera, two friends, and two bucks.

then ManagerGuy will post the film/photo essay and i will be made fun of mercilessly!

ha ha!

but really, 2004 was a craptastic year for movies. i'm just trying to compete.

Eternal Sunshine was different and satisfying. i liked the Incredibles and Shaolin Soccer. the rest? Farenheit 911? i mean, what the hell was that? not NOT a documentary. i liked Team America better than 911.

and if you even say Sideways i'm gonna kick your ass. it wasn't half as good as About Schmidt.

what? i'm cranky today?

bite me.

now accepting applications to work on the worst query letter film of 2004.