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Movie Poop
(I pulled from the my book Sunnyside because it’s
too dated to be useful. People just as I forget about movies.)
This column is my take on the political aspect on the movies Hollywood tends to kick out. It’s more or less a dried up column but some people actually get paid to do it.
To this day I wonder where the folks in Hollywood get the idea that people will even
want to see half the crape they kick out. Most of it will eventually be shown in TV so that's why I don't even bother going to the movies very much. I'm not one to rent or buy videos either. Never the less, you may be wondering
about how I feel about the films that are offered to us so I decided to put
together my own movie review.
One of the reasons I'm writing such a column is
that I see the politics involved in it and realize that the
people who are in the business of making movie reviews are bias for the
most part.
I've seen two thumbs up for a film only to witness the movie vanish
from the billboards after the first weekend.
Like the love story stared by Mira Sevino, where she disguised herself as a man. Eberg and his partner gave it two thumbs up, but before I could get a
chance to see it, it vanished. Not even a word about how much money it made on
the weekend.
Too me:
Gwineth Paltrow had already done that. At least she has the jaw bones to help her
pass for a guy, but Mira; she’s just too dam cute to pull it off. For the
producers to think that an audience would except the gag for their entertainment
is quit appalling. Even after seeing the clips on television, I knew the movie
wasn't worth paying for, but I wanted to see it because I’ve got a thing for
Mira Servino.
I think it's pretty bad that Hollywood's
can't come up with better scripts from all of their fancy
writers. However, the politics influence almost everything they produce and that is where most of the problems start. The films they produce are often all
about how much money they want to invest in advertising for the picture and
whether the picture will draw commercial advertising when placed on television.
A good story like mind comes along and they will pass it up because they know the commercial advertising dollars will keep it out of the media, therefore they would be able to let the public know that it even existed.
I think people
have seen enough love stories and if there is one, folks in Hollywood tend to thinks that it will only sell if they get someone like Julia Roberts to play the part. If it's an action film, Tom Cruise would be the one to draw the most financial backing.
The
way I look at it is that the major studios in Hollywood are actually the bankers who finance the films and they also have the outlets to distribute the films. And the studios no longer like to take chances so it's all about the names and the money they can throw at promoting it.
The best way for a movie to succeed, is the one that starts out with a good story line, but with all the white powder many of them
put up their noses no days, they don't have a grasp on reality and often ruin a story by trying to make it more commercially appealing. Some of the stuff they call comity, is so stupid, that you'd have to be high on something in order to be able to laugh at it.
Now days it's the sound bites that
sell movies. I guess it's because we're breeding stupid people and
the public doesn't have an attention span that will handle anything more.
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From way back:
Looks like Spielberg has a taste for good script writers
because he just signed one of the best there is; Frank Durabount for the next
Indianan Jones. Let's just hope the story is the important ingredient that goes
into the film and not too much flashy camera shots. Then I'd go to the theater to
see that one.
Update: looks like the deal with Speilberg and Durabount fell through. That's unless Spielberg had ______ rewrite it. But I happen to think that the two of them just don't mesh because of different personalities.
The struff they put on TV
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