I'm sitting here looking at the list of films nominated for an Academy award and thinking WHAT THE HELL!

What the hell is it all for? Why do we all sit around wasting so much time watching artificial people living artificial lives in meaningless films with meaningless plots and empty artificial moments? Once in a great while, a film comes along that changes you. That really touches your soul in a deep way, turns your life around, makes you seek out new things and new ideas... but most films leave you just as hollow and empty as you were before you entered the godforsaken theater and wasted 7 bucks on a ticket, 3 bucks on those really tasty pretzel nuggets, and 3.50 on a big coke which you know is only going to make your leap up half way through the film and run for the can. But you don't care!! Because chances are you won't mind missing a few minutes of this film anyway, because chances are its just another empty script filled with empty people.

So many films are nothing more than some desperate cry for help, a needy filmmaker desperately crying for people's attention, a man with something to say but no way to say it, so instead he tries to do something cool to get people's attention. The rest are either big budget thrillers, heavy on flashy lights and low on anything that might actually be important.

But we go anyway, we go in droves. The fact is that the average Joe doesn't care when he gets stuck watching some mediocre flat lined flick. Most people are just so damn happy to be out of their house away from the screaming kids and the dog's intestinal problems that they thank god that they're sitting in a comfy chair in a quiet room for a couple hours. And therein lies the secret to Hollywood's success. People see movies not because they are good, but because they want to get away. Get away from the misery and unhappiness that is the reality of existence, escape from the dead end job and the incompetent mechanic trying to rape them by overhauling their Ford Explorer, and the nagging wife who let her looks go long ago, and the lazy husband who won't even get off his ass to take out the trash and who when he isn't in front of the TV is so drunk he couldn't get his pants off far enough to please his wife even if he wanted to, which he doesn't.

The world is an empty, empty place, and the films we see are no more filled with meaning than the every day, average lives of the men and women that surround us here in the real world. But at least watching someone else's empty life is more entertaining than thinking about how empty is your own.

Critics rave on and on about depressing morose art films, and nameless melodrama that no one cares about or has ever heard of, and pat themselves on the back for understanding what cinema is all about when the rest of the world seems clue less as to what good film making is. The clicky art house crowd Scoffs at the common folk as they flock to see the latest Bond flick or take their kids to see the newest cheery Disney movie. But they truth is, its these people who are missing the point. Good film is whatever makes you happy. Good film is anything that brings a little joy into your world and gives you a moment to stop thinking about the mess that is YOUR life and think about something else once in awhile.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and those who think they are the only real judge of beauty are the most misguided of all. Film is about your opinions, hate it, love it, but don't tear down what you don't understand, and don't' assume you know more than anyone else. Once in awhile if you're lucky, a film comes along that stays with you, that makes a little home inside your heart and keeps you warm on those long dark nights alone... but most of the time the movies we watch are just as empty as we are and all the talk in the world can't make them any better.

The Academy thinks they know what's good. They evidently think they know better than everyone else, as the go on year after year after year nominating movies that most people have never seen and probably wouldn't care to. Elitism is alive and well, but pay no attention! Love what you love, see what you want to see, and even if it doesn't touch you, doesn't move you, perhaps it can bring a little joy into your life... if only for a moment.

Critics like me aren't here to tell you what to think, we aren't here to tell you what you should like, we, I am just a guide, here with a suggestion or two, and maybe give you a laugh or two on the way. Avoid anyone who tells you otherwise.

What the hell is it all for? Why do we all sit around wasting so much time watching artificial people living artificial lives in meaningless films with meaningless plots and empty artificial moments? Once in a great while, a film comes along that changes you. That really touches your soul in a deep way, turns your life around, makes you seek out new things and new ideas... but most films leave you just as hollow and empty as you were before you entered the godforsaken theater and wasted 7 bucks on a ticket, 3 bucks on those really tasty pretzel nuggets, and 3.50 on a big coke which you know is only going to make your leap up half way through the film and run for the can. But you don't care!! Because chances are you won't mind missing a few minutes of this film anyway, because chances are its just another empty script filled with empty people.

So many films are nothing more than some desperate cry for help, a needy filmmaker desperately crying for people's attention, a man with something to say but no way to say it, so instead he tries to do something cool to get people's attention. The rest are either big budget thrillers, heavy on flashy lights and low on anything that might actually be important.

But we go anyway, we go in droves. The fact is that the average Joe doesn't care when he gets stuck watching some mediocre flat lined flick. Most people are just so damn happy to be out of their house away from the screaming kids and the dog's intestinal problems that they thank god that they're sitting in a comfy chair in a quiet room for a couple hours. And therein lies the secret to Hollywood's success. People see movies not because they are good, but because they want to get away. Get away from the misery and unhappiness that is the reality of existence, escape from the dead end job and the incompetent mechanic trying to rape them by overhauling their Ford Explorer, and the nagging wife who let her looks go long ago, and the lazy husband who won't even get off his ass to take out the trash and who when he isn't in front of the TV is so drunk he couldn't get his pants off far enough to please his wife even if he wanted to, which he doesn't.

The world is an empty, empty place, and the films we see are no more filled with meaning than the every day, average lives of the men and women that surround us here in the real world. But at least watching someone else's empty life is more entertaining than thinking about how empty is your own.

Critics rave on and on about depressing morose art films, and nameless melodrama that no one cares about or has ever heard of, and pat themselves on the back for understanding what cinema is all about when the rest of the world seems clue less as to what good film making is. The clicky art house crowd Scoffs at the common folk as they flock to see the latest Bond flick or take their kids to see the newest cheery Disney movie. But they truth is, its these people who are missing the point. Good film is whatever makes you happy. Good film is anything that brings a little joy into your world and gives you a moment to stop thinking about the mess that is YOUR life and think about something else once in awhile.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and those who think they are the only real judge of beauty are the most misguided of all. Film is about your opinions, hate it, love it, but don't tear down what you don't understand, and don't' assume you know more than anyone else. Once in awhile if you're lucky, a film comes along that stays with you, that makes a little home inside your heart and keeps you warm on those long dark nights alone... but most of the time the movies we watch are just as empty as we are and all the talk in the world can't make them any better.

The Academy thinks they know what's good. They evidently think they know better than everyone else, as the go on year after year after year nominating movies that most people have never seen and probably wouldn't care to. Elitism is alive and well, but pay no attention! Love what you love, see what you want to see, and even if it doesn't touch you, doesn't move you, perhaps it can bring a little joy into your life... if only for a moment.

Critics like me aren't here to tell you what to think, we aren't here to tell you what you should like, we, I am just a guide, here with a suggestion or two, and maybe give you a laugh or two on the way. Avoid anyone who tells you otherwise.

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