I Am Link

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--- That's It, I Give Up - I am going to start writing a remake of Casablanca set at a water theme park. And a remake of Citizen Kane at the DMV. Because Hollywood will get around to raping anything and everything eventually and I might as well make some cash myself. They're working on a remake of The Bride of Frankenstein now. And I'm starting to think I might side with the terrorists.

--- Pretty Bird - here's a slew of pieces of what's called the "color script" for Pixar's Up over here (via here) that are lovely all on their own; the color script is basically the painted story-boards that piece together the film for the animators beforehand, and these are works of art all on their lonesome. Lovely.

---Viva Crystal Lake - There was a DVD release party for all those super-special editions of the latter Friday the 13th movies that came out yesterday and a bunch of people from said films showed up and you can see some pics and read about it over at AICN. Geek out.

--- Speaking Of - You should check out Aaron's take on the first three Friday the 13th's over at Electronic Cerebrectomy. I'm definitely with him on the first two films being better than they're given credit for, but I think he's a little hard on Part 3. My beloved Part 3! If I were going to defend it it'd be hard to because on the most basic level he's right, it's crappy, but it's a special fun crappy that I hold in a special place in my heart.

--- Old Made New - Twitch has three posters made for recent screenings of new-classics - The Goonies, Rocky Horror, and Night of the Creeps. All are amazing and ought to be in my possession. Now.

--- Superer Badder - Michael Cera has taken to tweeting and blogging up a storm this week and has broken some news about a sequel to Superbad. Midgets are involved. Aren't they always?

--- Dinos A No Go - io9 nagged at producer Frank Kennedy about where a fourth Jurassic Park film stands and got this from him:

"He looked us kindly in our big optimistic eyes and said it was more of a "back burner project." Clearly, our hopeful look hadn't changed, because the Producer leaned over sadly, and said, "At this point, you could call it a long shot.""

Well maybe if you didn't have morons writing scripts involving dinosaurs wearing lasers on their heads this wouldn't be the case, Mr. Kennedy. I mean, how freaking hard is it to write a good story about rampaging dinosaurs in the modern day world? Goddamn.
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