…I’ve dug up the absolute first (and retrospectively hilarious) reaction I ever had to the movie. It was written on January 10th, 2005 in the the super-secret place where Beau, Mark and I were talking about the production of The LAN:
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/index.php?Show=3125&Template=newsfull FUCKING ASSHOLE Kay, this really doesn’t have anything to do with our movie….they really aren’t related at all, I’m just really pissed off and angry about this. How fucking dare them. If they show a LAN Party, I’m gonna slit their fucking throats, because a LAN Party has NEVER been shown in a movie, EVER. Fucking McG, fucking assfuck. The thing is…I like American McGee, and since he is doing alot of consulting and design for the movie, those parts will be really fucked up….but what a fucking cocksucker. McG that is, not McGee. STAB THEM ALL IN THEIR FUCKING FACES
I think I was even angrier then than I am now. Plus, I’ve got a great economy of language when I curse; "Fucking McG, fucking assfuck." Level 60 Wordsmith, right here…
I didn’t realize that McG was involved at all with that. (For the record, I thought Charlie’s Angels was good, brainless fun.)
As for director William Brent Bell… His prior credits boil down to “brought lube to the set of numerous soft-core porn shoots”.