— The watertight security around Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” has sprung a leak in the shape of Michael Caine, who tells Empire about his character. “I play a professor who’s teaching a guy science. It’s Leonardo DiCaprio. He’s going off to do a science project and he speaks to me before he goes.” Admittedly, not a huge bit of news, but it seems that even Caine doesn’t know much more than we do. “They wouldn’t let me read the script. I only got my page. They’re all very secretive!”
— Marvel head honcho Joe Quesada has been talking up the clumsily-titled “The First Avenger: Captain America,” set to be directed by Joe Johnston (“The Wolf Man”) He told a panel at the Big Apple Comic-Con that “I’ve seen a couple of outlines and an initial screenplay, and it’s going to rock everyone’s socks off. It’s very unexpected, the kind of movie it is.” What kind is that, then? Torture porn? Romantic-comedy? Torture-porn-romantic-comedy?
— Sociopathic 3D evangelists MarketSaw printed a rumor yesterday that a new trilogy of “Star Wars” movies were being planned in 3D, to be directed by Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola, and, in news slightly less surprising than the sun rising this morning, it’s been denied by a Lucasfilm representative. Kudos to Ain’t It Cool for doing what MarketSaw should have done in the first place. You know, proper journalism.
— Stephen Norrington, a director so terrible he caused Sean Connery to retire after “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” has delivered a script for his reboot of “The Crow” franchise. Apparently, the film will have an “almost documentary style,” which probably means it’ll rip off the Bourne movies. Unless it’s riffing on “An Inconvenient Truth,” and has a guy in goth make-up giving a PowerPoint presentation for two hours.
I would actually watch a man in the crow makeup give a power point presentation on global warming. It would make it 10 times better if that was Al Gore.
Who edits your ridiculously hypocritical and childish site?
In two postings, you criticize Marketsaw for their lack of journalistic prudence, then you blame the director of "League" for forcing Connery into an early retirement!?
Even if that statement was intended to have a sort of tongue-in-cheekiness about it, it is still a wholly inaccurate one. Talk about not doing your homework. Maybe Don Simpson can help you out with that one.
And given how many errors I find in your pages on a weekly basis, and the childish, petty, and snarky rantings made by your writers about the supposed character traits of people whom they have never met (see Len Wiseman "jerk" comment below. I mean, really, you don't know him, so what's that about?) I hardly think you should be questioning the journalistic integrity of others.
Perhaps you should start with the basics like fixing all the spelling, grammar, and/or syntax errors on your site. And hiring writers who actually know how to form intelligent, thought-provoking sentences, rather than appeal to the lowest common denominator set.
Finally, someone has answered my calls for a more documentary-like approach to The Crow!
Also, this guy is the same one who keeps responding to question our grammar and spelling. Let's bring him on as an editor! I'm sure he's charming in person.
Nice of you to address ANY of the substantive claims in my post, Gabe. I guess you are content pointing out the supposed journalistic inadequacies of others without even considering your own. Not only is that hypocritical, it demonstrates that I am right in what I have repeatedly said about you.
Now why don't you grow up, be a man, and admit to the long list of The Playlists' shortcomings, rather than sit in judgement of real journalists. I mean really, it's laughable that you think you and your little site adds anything of value
to film world. Your "analysis" is cribbed from other writers, as is your news-gathering, which is simply stolen from sites where real journalists actually break stories as opposed to serving as an aggregator with an immature, filmmakers-are-sell outs-if-they-don't-make-the-kind-of-films-they-want -us-to-make, arrogant and childish dictum that you guys seem to live by.
Is Max the guy from the 3D obsessives site that blundered that story or something?
How about Coppola and Spielberg collaborate on a PowerPoint presentation?
Also, Al Gore used Keynote.
Max, you clearly sound like you'd rather be our ombudsman, considering you claim you keep visiting the site "weekly." So, really, you should be thanking us for the browsing material.
Also, I really feel bad, because it does seem we hurt your feelings in some way. Can we get you a drink? Maybe a cute new outfit? An apology of some sort? I know some people you can talk to, and if it will make you feel better, we can talk to them together.