Every year I have a huge inner battle between my love of movies and my hatred of pretentious Hollywood. I call this conflict: “The Oscars”.
Posts Tagged ‘Hollywood’
I swear I have nightmares like this. Waking up screaming and drenched in a cold sweat nightmares. Nightmares just like this.
Producer Interference
by Matt Taylor on September 25, 2013 at 12:29 amRecently I have been re-watching one of my favorite TV shows from my youth. The show is Lois and Clark: the New Adventures of Superman and it’s still one of the coolest things ever to come out of the 90′s. Shut-up. The 90′s were awesome. They’re still awesome. Leave me alone. During the time the [...]
We spend a lot of time talking about and comparing ourselves to others. The people on the movie screen or in the magazines look so much better than we ever could hope to look. But here’s the thing: You see, those people have literally hundreds of people whose JOB it is to make them look [...]
Makeup! I should write something here about makeup. … I got nothing. Sorry. I’ll do better next week.
I think our standards for entertainment are plummeting further and further. We can do better people! Let’s raise the bar. We’re not in the 7th grade anymore. Well I mean…I’m not in the 7th grade anymore. I suppose it’s entirely possible that someone reading this might be… You might be in the 7th grade for [...]
How to become a famous Hollywood celebrity (listed in order of critical importance): 1. Be really, really, really ridiculously good looking. 2. Learn to act. Y’know. If you can. No big thing though. Clearly you can do without that part.
I’ve complained about this before. Hollywood is out of ideas. And I’m not just talking about Avatar although that is a pretty blatant rip-off from movies that came before. Actually, you know what? I’m just going to come out and say it. I AM just talking about Avatar. I mean really. You all went ga-ga [...]
Sometimes writers ruin things. It happens. I’ve come to expect this. You have a perfectly good tv show, and then one fateful day, the writers decide to stray from the formula. It probably begins innocently enough. A group of writers sit around anxiously discussing how to create a more compelling story for their show, when [...]
It’s your fault. That’s right. It’s your fault we’re in this mess. Don’t go around blaming the older generation. This falls squarely on you. You are to blame. Rotten teenagers. It’s your fault we don’t have good movies anymore. And you know why?? Because your attention spans are the length of a gnat. A GNAT I SAY! [...]