Technology Vs. Horse

Adaptation is a dangerous movie. It's a movie that give hope to the thousands of overweight, sweaty, neurotic wanna-be filmmakers out there, that someone might actually find their lives interesting. But they won't. We're over weight, sweaty, and insecure - and unless you're Charlie Kaufman, you can't make that work. Especially now, since they already made 'Adaptation', because if you try to write a story about a screenwriter people write it off as an 'Adaptation' rip off. As they should. Because it is. Probably. Unfortunately though, it's not the neurotic ones you have to worry about. They wouldn't be able to make it past the third page before they talked themselves out of it. It's the ones who think stories about rogue screenwriters who are turned down for being too creative and thinking out of the box and eventually fight the corrupt Hollywood system to bring their glorious vision to the world (and somewhere in all of this get the girl, because there is always a girl) are really interesting. Because when you tell them that no one cares about that, then they just get indignant and keep writing the same story.

Also, Brian Cox is the shit. Not just in this movie, but everything he's ever been in. Except maybe 'Manhunter', but that's probably due to the taint that Hopkins put on the character. Even though Cox did it a few years before, you still just look at 'Manhunter' and go "No, wrong. You're doing it wrong," and then you realize you're talking to the television screen again, and go pour yourself a glass of water and hope no one heard you making an ass out of yourself. But the point is Brian Cox made me laugh when he was acting drunk in 'Super Troopers'. That was the point.