Somebody's finally listened to my furious fanboy ranting!

[thehefner]

And it's ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY! For a second time!

Once again, it seems a letter of mine ranting about my displeasure at something the magazine has done is going to be published! Two weeks ago, EW put out their "forecast 2005" issue spotlighting the big movies to be coming out, and while obvious stuff like BATMAN BEGINS, BEWITCHED, and KINGDOM OF HEAVEN got noted, some with full-page articles, there was no mention, not even a footnote, on SIN CITY!

What the fuck, right? I mean, you got a movie with a cast and crew like that, not to mention a truly different visual style for a film, and it doesn't even merit a "oh, by the way, there's this little movie coming out called SIN CITY coming out." Even that god-awful-looking PINK PANTHER remake got a mention!! So like the good little film/comic snob that I am, I wrote in a letter and they just sent back an e-mail asking for permission to print! Huzzah! Now my word of indignation will run in edited format to the world!

The last time EW prinited a letter it was three years ago when their cover hailed SCREAM the "greatest slasher movie of all time." Dude, when you put that smirking post-modern pretty-face-fest over the works of Craven, Carpenter, and Alfred Motherfuckin' Hitchcock, oh no, it's on.

So far I've had letters in TIME, EW, BATMAN, THE SPECTRE, and BATMAN: THE LONG HALOWEEN. I feel kind of like Grandpa Simpson with my indignant letters. Well *someone* needs to set these mixed-up kids straight, ding dang it!

Comments

[jcsbimp.livejournal.com]

Here's to your eloquence and taste, now well documented!

[fishymcb.livejournal.com]

"P.S. - I am not a crackpot."

Go John, go John...it's your birthday...something something...

[dame-ratcliffe.livejournal.com]

By the way, Wes Craven directed Scream...hence the cameo of Freddy Krueger and a Johnny Depp look alike as the boyfriend. All references to Craven's past, as well as some others potentially that I didn't catch.

I happened to really appreciate Scream. It's the only horror movie I've ever been able to sit through and actually like at all. Honestly I avoid them though when at all possible, so it makes sense that your idea of a good horror movie is completely different from mine.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I remembered that when I wrote the letter but it's been a few years, so brain fart. And I should add, I like Scream a lot, I just don't like the trend it started nor do I think it's superior to its predecesors... it's too self-knowledgeable and self-refferential.

[findingjuliet.livejournal.com]

there was no parody of Horror Flicks as good as Scream. And you're right everything else that came after (including Scream 2 and 3) sucked. Scream is its own unique film which is why it deserves to be lauded.

Congrats, I get EW so let me know when to look for your letter :)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if I'd call Scream a parody exactly, maybe more of a satire, but in that same genre I would submit to you four other contenders: Return of the Living Dead, An American Werewolf in London, Evil Dead 2, and Shaun of the Dead. Maybe Scream was the best slasher comedy, but those other four are all brilliant horror comedies, and Scream wouldn't exist if it weren't for "Return" especially. Really worth checking out if you haven't already.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Thankee!

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Hesh!