Maybe I am getting old but where have all the good movies gone?
Can't Hollywood just make an entertaining movie without a political or social statement rammed down our throats and without swearing, nudity, crass humor, sexual innuendo, drug references, etc..?
They certainly have their free speech rights and I certainly have my right to not go and see their garbage. But what irks me is that I pay to get into a movie that seems interesting from the trailers only to be disappointed when they take a perfectly good story and ruin it with trash.
Two cases in point: Wall-e and Hancock. The animation and base storyline in Wall-e was great and the characters were well developed - but what's with the man is a lazy, fat, non caring, trash the planet message? Notice that the corporate CEO type who trashes the planet and gives up in trying to clean it up is a real human while the ignorant humans who are the hope of the world are animated.
Hancock was even more disappointing. Besides having a dumb ending, the swearing throughout the movies was nauseating. After the show I noticed how many young kids were in the theater with their parents. I wonder what they think - if at all. It is a sad state of affairs today but I just wonder had I asked those parents what they thought of all the swearing in the show (and by children, I might add) how many of them would have agreed with me or, looked at me as if I had a bug on my face. Call me cynical but I believe most parents today don't even recognize it as a problem and would dismiss my comments as prude and outdated. How sad for those kids.
I for one am going to talk to my congressman (who is a friend of mine) to try to get the "clean flicks" idea back in business. Let Hollywierd make what they want to make but give us a choice to cut out all the garbage.
