My Dearest Apologies...

For the longest time I thought this little corner of cyber space was only frequented by myself until a friend of mine commented that I hadn't posted here in such a long time.

I think most of the problem (besides being so stupidly busy) is that I usually find myself with nothing of importance to write about, and so I don't. Sometimes I'll head over to Movies.com and take a quick gander in their buzz bin to see if anything catches my eye there. Unfortunately the only thing I spotted today was a quick mention of Cloverfield. Of course Mr Abrams has been really hitting the whole viral marketing thing kinda hard, and I think that adds one more brick to the "JJ Abrams Likes to Confuse Foundation" building. All of his work exhibits some sense of mystery in one form or another, which is normally fine, but at some point you have to explain those mysteries, and not in a quick cop out kind of way just to get people off your back so you can go jump on board your next project. Alias suffered for Lost. Lost suffered for Mission Impossible three, or also known as Alias, the movie. Now he's working on this strange viral movie that no one really knows what it's about, and anything new released concerning the film only serves to further the state of mass confusion. Some think it's a Godzilla remake, others, the mighty morphing power rangers. You laugh, but I have seen arguments that this is a more serious take on the power rangers, and sometimes, I actually wonder.

A while back I also heard that JJ Abrams bought the rights to turn the Dark Tower series into a movie as well. I'm still on the fence about this, I usually like JJ's stuff straight out of the gate, but then again, it's not long before I lose interest because it begins to suffer for some other project of his. And while his movies tend to not follow this problem, that is usually because you spend about a year or two pounding the thing out and then your done with it. This a system that tends to fit perfectly into the attention span of Mr. Abrams. But the Dark Tower series is long, really long, and to do it justice it will need to be at the very least, seven films, a project that time wise, will far surpass that which we saw in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Based on what I've seen in the past, I just can't see JJ committing to that kind of time intensive project without it suffering for some brand new shinny project that happens to catch his eye a year into it.

But that's just me.