So here we are again Hollywood, just you, me, and another billion viewers of the slop you’re calling entertainment film these days. Truly, this year alone we’ve had 12 films about how we’re all doomed and the world isn’t going to be a happy place in the future for our kids. 9, gamer, district 9, pandorum, surrogates, and the upcoming disaster of a film 2012 are just a few I can name off the top of my head. I mean seriously, sparkling glampires were not enough; you just had to go and beat another genre to death like an unwanted red headed stepchild? Truly the cookie cutter machine that is the LA film industry is running out of quality dough.
Let’s start with Gamer. A lovely low quality film with an even lower budget plot about a world where either you are a mind controlled puppet or some fat lonely man slob pulling the poor little second class citizens strings thinking to yourself it’s only a game, no one really gets hurt. If people really had that ability would they actually use it for good? Nope. They would use it to be absolute jerks. I WOULD!
In 9 it’s our technology that kills us; how lovely. Little puppet people who have no knowledge of why humans are all gone and it’s their quest to find out why after one of them screws up and reactivates what destroyed us. Absolutely brilliant if the plot could be any weaker. Whoever wrote this has a definite career in silent film and most definitely is much like the little puppets created by him; not smarter than a 5th grader. Personally Tinseltown, if you’re saying that everyone should go back to the way things were in the Roman Empire then just say it. I highly doubt that anyone will listen to you though. They’ll just turn up the volume on their iPods and stare even more blankly at their laptop screens typing out useless Twitter messages to the person sitting right next to them on the bus.
Then there is Surrogates. Based on an actually excellent graphic novel this film is out to state that in the future we’ll not have to leave our homes to actually do anything to interact with other human beings. We’ll be able to just relax in our recliners and jack our psyches into a robot so that we never have to leave the comforts of home. After all the real world is just too difficult to face with all the war, pollution, and double bacon cheeseburgers we keep throwing down our necks making us all obese with the added superpower of being able to fart butter. Quite frankly out of the three this one I see being the most likely scenario since we already do this today with our world of warcraft, myspace and facebook addictions. We don’t even have to look at our friends and lovers to talk to them because the rejection factor of saying something wrong or looking not our best might just send the wrong signals. Does it really take that much time and effort to turn your head and say hello?
When it comes down to it Holly weird what is the message you are trying to get across. After all we know that film is one of the most effective ways to deliver a message. It’s live, loud, in your face and force fed straight into the masses brains. But the real deal is this: Are you trying to tell us all, even the kids of the next three generations (since they’ll be seeing these film on late night TV reruns in the future) that they have nothing to look forward to? That they shouldn’t try anything to better themselves because our future is so bleak? If this is the case, my future filmmakers of tomorrow, maybe our fantastic movie houses should begin to take responsibility for their films messages, and more importantly for the disasters that they create. After all, those who live in celluloid castles shouldn’t throw thrones.
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THE FUTURE!!!
(At least how Hollywood sees it)
Published: Friday, October 23, 2009
Updated: Friday, October 23, 2009
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