A New Waste Of Time... THANKS A LOT HOLLYWOOD!

Now before I go off ranting, I want to direct your attention to the following links to a fellow blogger (Nintendood's Eel Sushi blog) that pretty much speaks for this post:

http://eelsushi.blogspot.com/2009/11/return-of-fangirls.html

AND

http://eelsushi.blogspot.com/2009/11/open-minded-fanboyism.html

So he pretty much speaks for himself and many of us. So I won't say much about the Twilight saga besides the parody pictures that I have above (enjoy!). BUT, I did join a few groups on Facebook dedicated to counter the Twilight saga craze. One is called 'Annoyed by Twilight' and the other is called 'Team Jacob? Team Edward? How about Team Shut the *#%$ up!'. I hear there is also a group called 'Husbands Annoyed by Twilight' and you can 100% guarantee that I'll join that group (along with Nintendood) when I'm happily married in like a decade and a half (Although, I have a feeling that Twilight will be a thing of the past by then, but we'll have to wait and see.).

Instead, I'll rant a little bit about film adaptations from books or plays... DONE BY HOLLYWOOD! Now it's true that the Hollywood film industry is one of the crucial backbones of American entertainment and I won't lie: I enjoy SOME films!

During the second semester of my senior year in high school, I took a class called Film as Literature. In that class, we spent time watching different genres of film, studied how a film is made, all that good crap. The one thing I dreaded was a project called the 'Director Project' where one picked a well-known film director, watch three of his/her films, and make a research project out of it.

But enough of that!

Before we watched a film in class, we would take notes about it. The notes would include the budget, awards it won or was nominated for, the actors/actresses, a plot synopsis, and whether the movie made more money than the budget or if it was bust.

What I see today is that it's hard to catch a good movie IN theatres these days. Most films are nothing more than pointless sequels, adaptations from books (such as Harry Potter, Dan Brown books, Twilight, etc.), and the occasional musical (such as Phantom of the Opera, Hairspray, etc.). Is it just me, or is Hollywood running out of original ideas?! Are they just getting lazy and resorting to books and plays!?

I'm sure everybody has their own opinions and I can't change that. I understand that some scenes from the books can't be replicated in the movies because of time and cost possibilities, two of Hollywood's biggest enemies! Thanks for taking the time to read this and until my next post, later!

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