Hollywood Rapes Another Corpse

From doubleplusundead, I learn that Hollywood intends to remake The Day the Earth Stood Still as a lecture on climate change.

My agents have managed to obtain an advanced copy of the opening sequence. Be warned, you aren't going to like what you see.

Hollywood Missing the Point

In today's bleat, James Lileks sums up why I couldn't get past the first 5 minutes of "Flags of our Fathers":

I also watched “Letters from Iwo Jima,” which was one of the best war movies I’ve ever seen, and was far superior to “Flags of Our Fathers.” It also annoyed me from start to finish, because when taken with its companion film, they constitute a perfect example of Hollywood’s instinctive inability to raise a flag without pointing out that the pole is planted in mud.

Right from the beginning, "Flags of our Fathers" starts hammering its ridiculous theme that there are no heroes. I agree that no true hero claims to be one but that reality doesn't prove there aren't any heroes. Just that heroes are bragging, arrogant pricks.

I turned if off and watched South Park.