Posted 1:02 PM by Gene

The man responsible -- or rather, who must be held responsible -- for the words to Herr Kubrick's last masterwork has written a piece for The JPOD Journal (only an abstract online), a mix of nostalgia and disgust, although you suspect he holds back when he says David Hare should be "in hiding" for having excreted that flick about the Holocaust and Kate W.'s bod. He wallops Douglas Fairbanks Sr. presumably because his movies are silent and old, and says The Producers is "in a word or three a radio show", then goes on dismayingly to trash Some Like It Hot, dismaying to me as I bought the deluxe DVD edition some time ago (I've never seen it), and I suspect he's right when he says it isn't funny. He also intimates ET stinks. He further implies mo-VEE cri-TICS and other such insects invented the listicle. The man's been writing movies for fifty years and clearly doesn't like it anymore; one must wonder why if he doesn't like it so much he keeps going -- maybe it's something to do like badminton at the senior center. He must know the movie world has ended in places like COMIC-CON, in the blinding flash of a thousand CGI explosions. And yet one thinks, if the movies are so bad, and the movies are so bad, why doesn't someone like this do more than whine about it? At least he has a WGA card. Then again having written Herr Kubrick's last masterwork he isn't in a position to reform them.