Posted by Mr.CombatisMattSaxe at 204.120.48.3 on July 23, 2000 at 01:27:20:
To everyone on the Board:
FIrst of all I am sorry it has been so long since I checked on the board and posted anything, I was involved in my harrowing-stuck in New Mexico desert town for 6 days-miserable move from my beloved hometown of St. Louis to Los Angeles. Now that I have visited the site and board and caught up with all the new stuff, I am very glad. Kevin and "Fletch" AWESOME!
I hate to do it, but I disagree with Kevin, and think the next "X-MEN" movie should be adapted from "God Loves, Man Kills" it has all the elements that would make an excellent movie in the vein of the first and a great villain with no super powers in the Rev. Stryker. Also it has the greatest Wolverine threatening with his claws scene ever and has a great twist with Magneto working with the X-Men to help save a brainwashed Professor X and tons of other great elements. It is a story I really enjoyed and it hits the Human-Mutant subject very hard in an intense way. "Days of Future Past" would be great too, but I think "God Loves, Man Kills" is a story that fits our time better. No super-villain mutants in it I know, (except Magneto) but still, I think it would make a great movie.
Now the big news, I am at a Kinkos so I have to do this quick. I have been selected to be one of 8 to 13 guys to fly to Texas tomorrow and be in "Pearl Harbor" over the next 2 weeks where I will play a Dolittle Raider pilot with Ben Affleck! Its basically a glorified extra job, but I've only been here 3 weeks and am absolutely thrilled! I worked on the set last Friday and all the scenes I was in were with Affleck and Alec Baldwin. Its a closed set so I can't say much about it except that Ben is really relaxed and funny when the cameras aren't running, cracking jokes and doing voices with the crew and director, but when it is time to work, he does and he is intense. I haven't talked with him yet, I don't believe in bothering actors while they're working, when I am rehearsing I want to concentrate on the scene, that doesn't mean I'm a tight ass, I just want to be at my best when I have to be. I hope to get to talk with him a little over the next 2 weeks. Big question, should I bring my copies of the "Clerks/Chasing Amy", and "Dogma" screenplays with me and ask him to sign them? I would really like it if he did, but I want him to consider me a fellow actor and not just some fan-boy. When Jay and Walt signed my stuff when I visited the Stash last year it was a different situation. Its a tough choice. ANy advice and help would be appreciated, especially from you folks in red. I hope everyone is doing well and I hear from you soon. Your fellow Askewer MS.