Re: Coming up for air

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: : Is it me, or are there a slew of twelve year olds hanging around on the : : board lately? : : Would you all kindly stop picking fights and then dramatically exiting the : : board only to show up again mere posts later? Thank you. : : Sorry for my absence. I've been knee-deep in the new script. I'm almost : : done, too. Got a title and everything. : : 'Course, it's a little too early to share any of the particulars of the : : film with you, but I'll start talking about it soon enough. Suffice it to : : say, it's pretty much the biggest 180 you can make from 'Jay and Silent Bob : : Strike Back'. : : Speaking of which, another reason I've been MIA: I was off licking my box : : office wounds. Don't get me wrong - thirty million is nothing to sneeze at : : (ask the 'Rock Star' folks if they'd be happy with a thirty million box : : office take). But the feeling was that we'd do better than 'Dogma', as the : : movie wasn't a niche film about Catholicism. However, we forgot that the : : flick was, ultimately, a niche film about the View Askewniverse. Oops. : : That being said, I've since made peace with what we'll wind up making. : : Once the expectation was cleared away, it was kind of nice to know that me : : and Mewes "opened" the movie ourselves - to the tune of eleven million : : bucks (and I'm not even movie star pretty... or a movie star at all, for : : that matter). That's all due to you folks - the ladies and gents who've : : encouraged our nonsense, flick after flick. Because of you all, and your : : fierce loyalty, I get to continue making whatever flicks I want to make. : : I've said it before, and I'll say it again: thank you. : : So, as we place thirteenth at the box office for this week, drop down to : : twelve hundred or so screens, and prepare to do our last lap toward that : : thirty million dollar figure, some have asked what my perspective on 'Jay : : and Silent Bob Strike Back' is? Was it worth the effort? : : Fuck, yes. : : It was a blast. We made the ultimate fan's flick and were extremely well : : reviewed, by and large. I got to put my wife and kid in the movie, as well : : as all of my friends. We made the exact film we wanted to make that the : : large majority of you really dug - and it's a flick that'll be very : : profitable for Dimension, when all's said and done. : : Yes, dear friends and peers, I've dodged yet another bullet. : : But box office, shmox office - let's talk about something that really : : matters. : : Good Lord, the horror of Tuesday the 11th... : : I was on the west coast during the attack, sleeping. The phone woke me up : : at around seven thirty, west coast time. My mother had left a message, : : urging me to turn on the television, as the United States was under attack. : : What I saw when I did so shocked the hell out of me. The burning WTC. The : : reports of people jumping from the building. The Pentagon broken. After : : watching about ten minutes of coverage, for me, the whole tragedy : : crystallized into one thought... : : This is what happens when people take their religion far too seriously. : : My prayers go out to the survivors of the attack and those who've lost : : loved ones, but my heart goes out to the hijacked passengers and the folks : : who populated that grand monument that always made New York City seem : : bigger than life, the World Trade Center. These were the folks who wound : : up as afterthoughts to some misguided lunatic's political statement, and I : : can't imagine a worse way to go than dying for someone else's : : self-righteous cause - and doing it while being held in check by a box : : cutter and the threat of a phantom bomb. : : As a Nation, we're sad. We're horrified and scared. We're outraged. : : We're hungry for vengeance. That was all to be expected. : : What wasn't expected - but should have been, really - has been watching us : : band together as Americans. : : The candle-lit vigils I witnessed dotting the streets of L.A. Friday night. : : The report that there have been more food donations made than can be : : handled in NYC. : : The news that volunteers had to be turned away, so many were there offering : : to clean up the debris at what was once the World Trade Center. : : If you're not proud to be an American this week, I urge you to get your : : jaded head out of your ass and stand in front of a flag and say the Pledge : : of Allegiance with as much fervor as you did when you first learned it in : : grade school. Because all that rhetoric we're usually fed during election : : years about patriotism and love for our country that normally seems like : : bullshit? That rhetoric has become a reality again. And I'd like to think : : of it as the parting gift of the passengers of the hijacked airliners and : : the nearly five thousand innocents who perished in both towers of the World : : Trade Center. That's the silver lining to the dark and evil cloud that : : loomed over our country just long enough last week to remind us why we're : : all on this particular land mass to begin with... : : Because we choose to be Americans. : : I'll check back with you late : I think you put everybodies thoughts into black and white within that statement Kev, and I respect and admire the stance you have taken. I agree that this is what happens when you take religion too seriously and nobody deserves to die for somebody elses bullshit thoughts. I personally would like there to be a draft so I can go to Afghanistan and kill each and every one of those bastards I saw celebrating in the street. Never in my life have I wanted to kill so bad. Anyway, it's bullshit that they're pulling Spider-Man, MIB2, Big Trouble and Collateral Damage, for "re-tooling", they should leave the buildings in the movies as a tribute to those lost in the attacks. Gone but not forgotten...

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