Here's the God's honest truth... Hollyweird needs us a WHOLE LOT more than we need them. I really need to catch up on some reading that I've let slip recently. A couple of books I just ordered, and I got bogged down reading C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity" because it is so densely packed, so I need to re-engage that book. I live not more than 40 minutes from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, so I really should be going there more and hiking, or just sit by a mountain stream and listen to the rushing water and calm my soul for awhile.
So yeah... go ahead, Hollyweird, you do you, I don't mind disengaging from your claptrap for a long while.
Speaking of claptrap, has anyone else noticed that there are really only about 10 plot devices in Hollyweird, they they just use them over and over with different actors and contexts? I've seen pretty much the same plot devices in westerns, modern city dramas, sci-fi drama, and more. Different costumes, different genres, different time periods... but the same tired old 10-or-so plots.
SoF, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Passion of the Christ are probably the only films I’ve seen in the past 30 years within 10 years of when they were made. I do love pre-code films from the 1930s though. So this strike business isn’t going to impact me at all. Now if people want to write and make creative new films independent of Hollywood, I enthusiastically support.
Here's the God's honest truth... Hollyweird needs us a WHOLE LOT more than we need them. I really need to catch up on some reading that I've let slip recently. A couple of books I just ordered, and I got bogged down reading C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity" because it is so densely packed, so I need to re-engage that book. I live not more than 40 minutes from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, so I really should be going there more and hiking, or just sit by a mountain stream and listen to the rushing water and calm my soul for awhile.
So yeah... go ahead, Hollyweird, you do you, I don't mind disengaging from your claptrap for a long while.
Speaking of claptrap, has anyone else noticed that there are really only about 10 plot devices in Hollyweird, they they just use them over and over with different actors and contexts? I've seen pretty much the same plot devices in westerns, modern city dramas, sci-fi drama, and more. Different costumes, different genres, different time periods... but the same tired old 10-or-so plots.
I'm. Over. It.
SoF, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Passion of the Christ are probably the only films I’ve seen in the past 30 years within 10 years of when they were made. I do love pre-code films from the 1930s though. So this strike business isn’t going to impact me at all. Now if people want to write and make creative new films independent of Hollywood, I enthusiastically support.