Stop, you're killing me in the name of entertainment.

As if we needed more proof that Hollywood is completely out of ideas, Disney is remaking Adventures in Babysitting

OMG. WTF. WHY?

Okay, please note that this has been one of my favorite movies since I was like 8. I could probably still dig out the Point Paperback novelization of it out from somewhere at The House. It's got that quintessential 80s charm, not to mention has Vincent D'Onofrio in a hilarious bit part that I'll bet he wished the world somehow missed.

But it's still a pretty blazingly awful movie (hence it now being a cult classic). Like a Chicago street gang would really be scared of lily white, pretty, young Elizabeth Shue just because she famously yells, "Don't fuck with the babysitter!" And now, they're remaking it. no. Disney is remaking it. IE, they're going to take the original, remove anything remotely threatening or messed up or fun about it, grind it up into bland G rated pablum and expect us to eat it. The original had kids swearing, reading Playboy, getting into trouble, and even getting into some scary situations that was a little more realistic than the bowdlerization that's inevitably going to result from this. I mean, gah. And even better, they have announced that filling Elisabeth Shue's big 80s hair shoes is Miss That's so Raven. Retch.

I'm really afraid I'm going to wake up one day and find that they're greenlighted a remake of The Goonies. Just imagine what sort of utter travesty THAT would be.

Dear Hollywood - stop eating the corpses of your forefathers in the hopes that grokking and cherishing them will magically rake in the money. It's not working. You are seriously insulting your target audience, which is blatently trying to tell you something with the fact that ticket sales have fallen drastically in the past couple of years. It's not because DVD is rendering the movie theater obsolete, you imbeciles, it's because you keep cranking out crap movies, 75% percent of which are pathetic remakes of or crap sequels to movies that in some way actually justify their weight in celluloid. For the love of all that's holy, hire some actual talent, go back to the drawing board and start making some MOVIES again. KThx. -- Andee

I should compile a list of quotes to live by and put this on it.

Dearly beloved,
We are gathered here today to get through this thing called Life
Electric word, "Life" - It means forever and that's a mighty long time
But I'm here to tell you there's something else:
The Afterworld.

A world of never ending happiness
You can always see the sun, day or night
So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills
(You know the one - Dr Everything'll Be Alright)
Instead of asking him how much of your time is left,
Ask him how much of your mind, baby
'Cause in this Life, things are much harder than in the Afterworld
This Life? You're on your own.

And if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy.
(Punch a higher floor.)

--Prince

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Today's crankiness brought to you by server failure, society, tomato sauce, and the letters F and U. And the number 6.

the puzzle pirates server has punked out completely. this sucked because my ship is now stuck on a remote island on literally the ass end of the midnight ocean. Seethe.

This seems to be the week for doing some long hard mulling over the idea of family. Sunday I met anzovin's mom, and his sister, who was much cheerier than the last time I met her (then again the recent purchase of a sharp thing as long as you are tall would do much for anyone's disposition. Tomorrow, sundart, anzovin and I go to Castle Zak for the weekend, which I'm looking vastly forward to as I love the Z's to no end. C's family is awesome. Today apparently both syd's parents and morlock's dad are in town, not that I'm going to see them personally but I find it interesting that it's all happening simultaneously. Needless to say I'm displeased with mine, with some exceptions, of course....

I did have some point to this post, but apparently it just went right out the window. I think I need to stomp off, send at least one email to one bitch-ass relative, and go wallow in my pissyness for a while.