It doesn't even need to be dark for me to love it, simply subversive would be enough. Plus Mann, Berg, Smith, Bateman. These are names that I respect. They all have delivered quality on a regular basis. So I'm definitely looking forward to this little project – though I wish it was an R one. R means that they don't have to pull punches.

As far as the blogosphere… there's a ton of bad movie sites out there. Nuff said.

In theory most blogs are started because somebody has ideas and opinions that they'd like to share, and/or they want to scratch some journalistic itch. Sometimes they are able to turn their hobby into an actual occupation, and some of those are able to keep doing it for their original reasons and get paid. However, far too many (not you Brad, yet :) ) have given themselves over to their advertisers by doing everything possible to get page views. It's hard to differentiate between those types and regular old attention whores.

Over the past year, I've had to take at least half a dozen blogs off of my reading list because they became obsessed with getting attention for money or ego. They start by latching on to popular subjects. Finding something popular to bash and doing so until it's no longer recognizable as a horse any more. Or, they talk glowingly about something else. Then they link to others who have the same opinions and they all can gather around in some sort of virtual circle jerk and soak up the Google Juice. The problem is that it's sort of like some sort of drug. Writing like that, they can't sustain any sort of regular readership. So they have to always be looking for their next hit. Always be looking for the next inflammatory wave to ride and get their page view fix for the week. Like a druggie, they eventually have to burn out.

Keep up the good work. Real news and real opinions, that's what's going to hold people for the long run.

/end rant