Raise your hand if you're tired of movies that suck.
While I'm betting a good number of you are tired, I'm betting most of you didn't raise your hand. Why? Because this is a stupid blog post and you simply couldn't be bothered. But if we are not willing to raise our hands to staunch the torrential downpour of crap that Hollywood spills on to our dinner plates, how can we be willing to raise our voices?
It's no question why the movies we see in theatres are bad. Bad stories, plots, bad characters. The reason they are bad is because We Keep Giving The Filmmakers Money. We keep allowing them to, as businesses, justify their actions. If we were to go out to dinner, pay $10, and be fed "Blockbuster X", we'd demand to see the chef if not just vomit on our plates immediately. Yet if its a movie we not only don't complain but we go back to see Blockbuster 2 and Blockbuster 3. Why is it that with films we're willing to acquiesce to "good enough"?
I have been called picky, but in truth I'm Discriminating. I don't want movies to be bad - I don't want to find fault with them, and I don't wish to be disappointed. I want them to be good! And when I watch a film I give that film fair opportunity - I encourage it and allow it the right to entertain and enlighten me.
But I no longer care to coddle piles of ass. I am past the point of being willing to give credit where scathing blame is due. Technical mistakes can happen - film can break, actors can become ill, chemistry can be off, creative and financial elements can conflict and tear each other apart. But repeat after me:
There is no excuse for a bad script.
There is no excuse for a bad script.
There is no excuse for a bad script.
Because there isn't. Good writing is free. Good writers are clamoring by the thousands to have their stories told. And what more? Repeat after me again:
Good scripts and awesome explosions need not be mutually exclusive.
But yet Hollywood continues to give us only the latter without the former, and we continue to literally pay them to do so. And then we justify it for them by saying the movie "didn't need to be good".
STOP IT. Stop it right now. Movies will be as good as we require them to be. It is so simple - if we demand good movies, studios will make good movies. And if when the chef puts rotting refuse in front of us and we eat up with a smile on our faces saying that dinner was "Good Enough"???
Next time someone asks you to raise your hand if you're tired of movies that suck, raise your hand by standing up and screaming at the top of your lungs.
