Wednesday, April 23, 2003

YOU HAVE TO BE SOME KIND OF DECONSTRUCTIONIST: Is movie columnist Jeffrey Wells excited to see The Real Cancun? Not exactly:
If CANCUN succeeds, which it unfortunately seems to have an excellent change of doing, "it could cause a seismic shift in the ways teen movies are made, just as the runaway success of AMERICAN IDOL and SURVIVOR has revolutionized the look - and economics - of network television," [the LA Times' Patrick] Goldstein wrote.

Hey, that would be terrific. Fewer plots, less writing, less acting, less cost to the producers, and a lot more assholes on the screen. If only D. W. Griffith and Ernst Lubitsch were around to share in this moment of industry pride.

You can read his full piece here, which includes some thoughts on T3.

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