Posted by sean at threshold8n.jpmorgan.com on August 08, 2001 at 12:51:19:
In Reply to: Does anyone here think for themselves? posted by Schroeder on August 08, 2001 at 10:51:51:
: After reading recent posts, I've realized that many people here follow (obey) Kevin with blind devotion. Kevin doesn't like PT Anderson, so there are posts about how we all hate PT and his movies. Kev mentions the GLAAD issue, we all hate GLAAD and what they stand for. The same goes for Catholics, Tim Burton, Jon Favreau, ABC, and anyone else who Kevin dislikes, or who dislikes Kevin.
: Do you think it has anything to do with the fact Kevin reads this board, and it's just a form of ass-kissing?
Sure, there are people who just say things because they want Kevin to pay attention to him, but there are also those of us who agree with him that Magnolia was really boring and a knock-off of many many truly great movies. Some of us even find it hypocritical of Jon Favreau to put down using the same actors over and over when the best parts of Made were him and Vaughn. And God forbid we don't think that Burton is a genius; we must be kissing Kevin's ass. [For the record, I love Edward Scissorhands and really really like Batman and Ed Wood. But Sleepy Hollow and Apes are two abyssmal movies with nothing redeeming about them whatsoever.]
As for GLAAD ... it sure seemed to me like they were in the wrong for the right reasons. Maybe I posted one too many jokes about it, and thus was guilty of "kissing ass". I guess that's how it works, right? If you disagree, "go somewhere else" and if you agree, you're an ass kisser? Isn't that like saying, "Dude, it's okay to like Clerks, but if you start telling Kevin so, then you're kissing his ass."
As Tarantino once wrote, delivered well by Val Kilmer, "It ain't kissing ass if it's true." And Burton was an ass for what he said ... truly. (And regardless of what you think of his films, I might add.)