i agree -- this is an exceptionally scornful director, aware of the paradigms of ideological criticism -- highly motivated by cash and a perverse need to rub his audiences' collective face in the vile entertainments he obviously does not believe in. Much instructive comments could be made about the parallels between him and the equally vile tarantino. This is postmodernist contempt to the nth degree. until audiences begin voting with their feet -- "we shall have the McMovies we deserve..." hr greenberg md endit ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite