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Quint's Incredibly In-Depth Set Visit To Roger Avary's RULES OF ATTRACTION!!!

First by Brianvanhoose	Dec 24th, 2001 03:08:53 AM
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Who's taking longer to release a product? Quentin Tarantino by IAmLegolas	Dec 24th, 2001 03:37:43 AM
Are they still friends? Also, do we really need a sequel to American Psycho? Isn't that kind of like making a sequel to Taxi Driver or Natural Born Killers? Anyone else out there lose all interest in any other films after seeing LOTR : FOTR? I have and it's scary. That's all I can think about these days...
Your piece of shit monkey pissed all over my Billie Holiday albu by METHOS	Dec 24th, 2001 04:35:48 AM
Great work, Quint! When do we see a trailer, and when's this getting released? Eric Stoltz is the coolest! Best wishes
I, for one, am glad Avary isn't gonna direct SANDMAN. by Cash Bailey	Dec 24th, 2001 06:46:30 AM
I've read his draft and I don't want to see the personification of Dream and the Corinthian as fucking muppets, as Avary was planning to do. He also wanted Hell to be a replica of Nazi Germany, and Alexander Burgess uses the infinite power of SANDMAN's Ruby to (wait for it)....make it in Hollywood! Christ, how many times have we seen that old 'Hollywood is the root of all evil in the world' gag? I'm also sick of everyone calling for vacuous 'decorators' like Tarsem and Michael Bay to direct this film. Face it, if you give any director enough money and great conceptual artists the visual side will take care of itself but any serious SANDMAN movie will always live and die on it's characters. On this we need a great actor's director who also has a track record of commercial hits and great critical respect so that the public and the critics will take SANDMAN seriously. Who's the perfect man for the job? In my opinion there would be no better director for SANDMAN than Peter Weir, probably the most consistantly brilliant director there is. Also, as much as I love the SANDMAN universe am I the only one who's got the balls to admit that the DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF LIVING movie is a really bad idea? If it was done as a quirky six-episode TV series it could be interesting, but a big-screen extravaganza? No. Bad, bad idea. Oh, and this RULES OF ATTRACTION flick sounds pretty sweet. Let's just hope it's better than KILLING ZOE, which, despite what Moriarty says, is garbage.
books are cool, too by Some Dude	Dec 24th, 2001 10:28:18 AM
"The Rules of Attraction" is not really a sequel. I think Quint used the word in a playful manner. It is only tangentially related to the events of "American Psycho." In the book, Patrick Bateman does make an appearance, but I guess not in the film. The Hollywood sequel, "American Psycho 2," has nothing to do with the work of Bret Easton Ellis. I'll still see it, if only for William Shatner as a college professor. That might be the performance of the year.
RULES OF ATTRACTION a prequel, not a sequel by Frank Reynolds	Dec 24th, 2001 10:46:47 AM
THE RULES OF ATTRACTION was written by Ellis first. It was his second novel, AMERICAN PSYCHO was his third. So technically, AMERICAN PSYCHO is the sequel.
Thank Christ, moe gay-bashing! by Joe Gideon	Dec 24th, 2001 01:40:25 PM
It's so cool to continually see people like Quint, poser posters, as well as hacks like Avary continue to dwell upon homosexuality as some kind of "thing" to be alternately ridiculed and held up as a source of amusement (note: Avary's two major feature film credits -- PULP & ZOE -- both have scenes of sodomy... what's that say about the ol' bugger?). Grow up, folks, and realize that while you're pointing your finger at the "fag" table there are so many others pointing fingers at your bigoted, eponymous one. Doesn't make sense, does it?
Hello? by PattyOGreen	Dec 24th, 2001 02:39:05 PM
Most of us living in the real world and middle America are quite familiar with the scenario. As much as PC folks like you want to believe that everyone loves everyone else and rarely uses demeaning terms or seclude certain "different" types of people, it happens so much more than it's shown. At universities in smaller towns in mid-america, gay people still have to either stay in the closet or stay in their little groups for support against the abusive masses. It's reality, and whether you like it or not, it's gonna pop up in movies from time to time. The world is not a happy politically correct place, like people want to believe it is. People segregate and lable, and that won't change for a long time.
american psycho was a great movie! by KyleKrane	Dec 24th, 2001 02:40:41 PM
dont talk shit about american psycho! its not a blend of genres...itsa comody and that all! eat a dick
Killing Zoe was HORRIBLE!!!!!!!! by Batutta	Dec 24th, 2001 05:59:13 PM

american psycho, vanderbeek by BEARison Ford	Dec 24th, 2001 07:15:14 PM
american psycho was one of the best films to come out of 2000. severely underrated, partially because it's tone. when i saw it in the theatre, some people either just did not get it, or were too squeamish about the violent themes, therefore judging it solely on that and not exploring the other content. it's beautifully acted, directed, and written. i've never read the novel and i don't really have any desire to, but what mary harron and christian bale did was awesome. i'm not surprised harry or quint didnt like it, as judging from their other "reviews", they just seem to have awful taste and critique period. rules of attraction sounds interesting, i like killing zoe, it's got it's flaws, but it's a pretty entertaining flick. i'm a little bummed Van Der Beek's segment from Storytelling was exorcised... does anybody know the story behind that? i heard it was because HE objected to the content, but this story seems in the same vein so... that doesnt really make any sense. finally, i really fucking hope they drop the American Psycho sequel gist from that Mila Kunis bullshit, that just sounds really bad.
Jessica Biel... by Psyclops	Dec 25th, 2001 03:29:07 AM
I kid you not... she is a major,... MAJOR HOTTIE!!!... and also quite talented. Anyone seen 'Ulee's Gold'? You couldn't pay me enough to actually watch an episode of '7th HEAVEN' but damn if my eyes don't linger on the WB a few seconds too long whenever I catch a glimpse of the lovely Jessica Biel. Please disregard this post as a drooling Geek-boy moment....
Bitch, bitch, bitch, Ms. Cohn... by GimliMcGimpy	Dec 25th, 2001 03:01:56 PM
Good fucking christ almighty... if I have to hear one more person jump on poor Quint's ass again, I'm going to go on a fucking shooting spree. You do know he is a real person with feeling, don't you? Vicious phychotic leech people you all are. You know, if you hate him so goddamn much, DON'T READ HIS STUFF. It's simple as that. You say he's horrible, but you give no specific criticism! How the hell would he get any better unless you give someone more to work with than "they say someone is 'cool' or super' too much"??? Just straight bitching does nothing but make the writer feel horrible. You wish him to be more eloquent? Is that the only thing you find terrible? How do you KNOW that this site DOESN'T have an editor? Or that Harry edits some of the regular poster's articles? Are you on the inside loop with these people? No? Neither am I, but I give them the benefit of the doubt. I know Quint's just a kid, and I enjoy his point of view very much. I like reading his articles, as dull and insipid as you people make them out to be. They're a hell of a lot more entertaining than any other websites' reviews and set reports. They have a personality - his personality, I suppose - and that's what so many review websites lack. You naysayers just go away and leave the people that enjoy this so-called "trash" from "the worst 'reviewer' here". Don't read it if you don't like it. Every talkbacker thinks they have a PhD in English. I'm sure you couldn't write a better peice if you tried, and I'm almost positive it would lack enough interesting opinion for Harry to bother posting in the first place. Leave the poor lad alone.
People Are Afraid To Merge On Roger Avary's Set... by Buzz Maverik	Dec 25th, 2001 11:38:09 PM
Eric Stoltz lights a cigarette. Someone has fucked Jessica Biel. A petition is circulating to keep healthy food off the craft services table. Roger had to pee when he got his Oscar. James Van Der Beek lights a cigarette. I tried to find some cocaine on the set and succeeded. Jessica Biel lights a cigarette.
"How could you miss that question? You always know the answers!" by Brother Putney	Dec 26th, 2001 01:23:40 AM
Buzz is riffing on the style and subject matter of the novel. Take the book, turn to any page at random, and you'll find lines like that, and probably something sordid going on, as well. I read that book when I was in high school and, damn, I couldn't wait to get college. It wasn't the same. Which made me happy but sad. Merry Christmas. Rock and roll. Deal with it. Ca va?
Well, Patty O... by Joe Gideon	Dec 26th, 2001 01:09:16 PM
I'm amused that you think you're living in a more "real" world than I am, but your attempt to try and get people to be more "realistic" about bigotry and hatred and how often it goes on smacks of a kind of hatred, or at least intolerance within yourself for certain groups. Gays, perhaps? Why then voice an opinion that that says it's perfectly fine to show that side of the world (without presenting an opposing view as well)? It seems to me that you're like the tv executives from "Survivor #1" who decided it was cool to show Rudy the "homosexual" hater because he was old, benign, and just "speaking his mind". When, in reality, he was just speaking uninformed, 40s/50s era backwards (and damaging) thinking. No one is blind to the "real world" of hatred, especially those of us who are victims of it... but to defend that hatred in any way, and even, IMHO, to be silent about it, is to add your strength to that side of the debate. So, I put it to you, whose side are you on: those that seek to unite, or divide?
in reply by PattyOGreen	Dec 26th, 2001 02:00:32 PM
I seek to do neither. In fact, I have a number of friends where I live who are homosexual or bisexual. It is up to the individual person to decide whether or not they will like or dislike someone because of a mere predisposision to a certain sex. I'm just saying that it is the reality that many people know. Have you been to little towns that have big colleges any time lately? College Station has next to no public gay community because they have to stay in the closet to spare themselves the hazing they would recieve by the community and a majority of the students there (and I stress, not all of them, but many). I think it's wrong, but I'm not going to make believe it doesn't exist, and I think that if it happens there, as well as a few other Universities I've seen in mid-America, then it is something that can be in a movie. Maybe this pregudice and inherent segregation comes into play in the movie that Avery is making later on in the story. Maybe he is making a statement in here about this mistreatment of people because of whom they choose to love and with whom they have relations. Maybe he is just staying true to the novel (which I have not read, so that is as much a guess as the other 2 statements prior). In whatever way it's being used, I have to give the director the benefit of the doubt before I even see the movie, and trust that he is not a hater or ridiculer of people of the homosexual disposition.
What I Like Best About James Van Der Beek... by Buzz Maverik	Dec 26th, 2001 05:53:01 PM
...is that he looks exactly like Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein monster, sans the fake scar tissue and the bolts in the neck.
What I Like Best About Gays, Bis and Lesbians.... by Buzz Maverik	Dec 26th, 2001 05:56:39 PM
...as a group, is that without 'em, we'd have a lot less movies, T.V., music and literature. Even stuff like THE RULES OF ATTRACTION.
Choose by Joe Gideon	Dec 27th, 2001 02:44:19 AM
Thanks for making your position clear. IMHO, I think you should choose a side and make a stand for what you think is right. Certainly the status quo right now isn't (people being afraid of the hazing they'll get). The director's intentions for the film will have to be judged once it's out and we've seen it, but the filmmakers' (plural) "labeling" of each table seems suspect of their leanings. For example, I am a director of several short films, endeavoring to do more. If I went on a cafeteria film-set and found that my prop-person had labeled something "niggaz table", it would come off. Period. Even if I were shooting "How High".
Geez, proof that junkets get you good press... by CHF Digital	Dec 27th, 2001 09:33:10 PM
Wish he had a little piece of journalistic integrity, rather than lapping all this up... Wrote my own column on the film, you might want to check it out: http://www.the-trades.com/colu mn.php?columnid=951. Happy holidays, Chris
Are you kidding me, quint? by Spending my time	Aug 15th, 2002 04:43:34 PM
You went to the "Rules of attraction" set and you didn't talk to Jessica Biel. Let me repeat that: You did NOT talk to Jessica Biel... What are you? Retarded? Didn't you see her? Didn't it strike you that she could be the most beautiful, sexy, gorgeous girl alive!? For God's sake, YOU SAW HER FLASH THE HOLY FRUITS!! Were you like blinking and the exact moment or WHAT!? Man, you puzzle me, I'm just gonna go somewhere now, and wonder why someone like you was given a chance like that and instead spent it talking to nipple rubbing fags! WOW!

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