Please suck my brains out through a straw, I’m not watching another flipping sequel!
Please excuse me while I vomit out a tiny rant about the state of mainstream cinema of late.
Is the movie industry so powered by revenue that it can think of nothing original anymore? Why have there been so many gosh darn sequels? Spiderman, Shrek, Pirates of the Carribean- trust me, there’s not too much more watery milk to be squeezed out of those teats.
And then there were the TV adaptations: The Simpsons movie, Transformers, Sex and the City and the frigging X-bloody-Files. In the words of Homer Simpson “what kind of idiot would pay for something you can get for free, on TV?”
And if I have to sit through another epic kids movie, I swear to you I will smash the screen with every jaffa I can scrounge from the grotty floor of the cinema. (Yes, The Golden Compass, I’m talking about you. Shame on our Nicole for being a part of it).
It can leave you feeling a tad disgruntled with the industry until you remember those rare gems this year has spawned like Juno, There will be Blood and American Gangster.
So I hope this semester will provide more of the latter which get you thinking about life, humanity and the joy of the big screen and less of the former that seem designed to dumb us down into buying merch and killing each other. Either way, I hope to chronicle the world of cinema this semester, provided I have $12.50 left over from my Centrelink cheque every now and then…
