I Am Link

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--- Funny Ha Ha... Ha? - There's a brief chat with Michael Haneke over at EW.com about his remake of his own Funny Games, coming out this Friday (yay!), and he's his usual impossible self, refusing to explicitly answer questions about his intentions and just generally being difficult. Mind you, I appreciate this about him and expect no less, but I do wonder why he keeps sitting down for interviews if he's just going to play the same cryptic card over and over again. A particularly harsh moment comes when the interviewer tells Haneke that one of his colleagues left the film at the end crying precisely because she didn't leave the theater before the end, and Haneke says this:

"... if someone has such a degree of self-pity, then I can't have pity on her."

Man he's rough. And thank goodness for it. No sugar-coating bullshit for him! The interview does repeatedly make the good point that there's no explicit on-screen violence in the film - we only see the repercussions of violence - which I do think it's important to remember when thinking about the film.

--- Mac dude and Barrymore paramour, Justin Long, has joined the cast of Sam Raimi's Triumphant Return To Horror, Drag Me To Hell, opposite Alison Lohman, who replaced film-abandoner Ellen Page. Sigh. I didn't particularly dislike Long until that trailer for Vince Vaughn's comedy movie skull-raped me, and now he just makes me think of that and my insides weep.

--- Karen Allen Looks Lumpy - The final poster for Indiana Jones and the Case of the Crystal Pepsi is over at AICN, and frankly, bo-ring. I don't know. It's exactly what it had to be to fit in with the usual Indy poster-scape, it's totally unsurprising, and it doesn't manage to lift my excitement level a bit. Not that my excitement level is low, I still wanna see this movie something bad; I think what's happened is I've reached media-saturation point, and nothing more is going to tip me any further into expectant hysteria. And yeah, Karen Allen looks lumpy.
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