from an email i sent to a friend yesterday, after reading this:

my favorite quote from that article is this one:

“‘I know I’ll be crying every day that I work on this,’ Yost said.”

yeah, me too.  bitches.  they need to know three things:

1.  you always, always wait a really long time to make movies about horrible things that really happened.  objectivity, people.  also, that way when the movie sucks, people like me can make fun of it with a clear consicence.  like pearl harbor.

2.  you never, ever make a miniseries.  miniseries are punchlines to begin with.  miniseries are for ripped-from-the-headlines subjects like amy fisher, john bobbitt, tonya harding, and other things that cannot possibly be cheapened any further.  this is not one of these subjects.

3.  you NEVER, EVER MAKE A MINISERIES.  there’s a reason everyone references “roots” when talking about miniseries, and that’s because it was probably the only good one.  and that was 1977.  nothing good’s come of the genre since.

i love that it’s being written by the guy who wrote speed, that keanu reeves / sandra bullock tour de force.  fuckers.