Hey, Hollywood. Quit making movies. Nobody wants to see them. Just keep the Hollywood sign up and keep telling people who Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are doing.
I have not seen GET SHORTY. I can't attest that the film is boring or anything, and I doubt that it's not interesting. But that premise just seems like the definition of Hollywood butt kissing.
Hollywood is a section of Los Angeles, California where movies are made. That is the end of my emotional attachment to the name Hollywood. Yes, thank you to those of you residents of Hollywood, CA who have helped bring about such awesome movies like 12 ANGRY MEN, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, THE GRADUATE, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE THE EXORCIST, TAXI DRIVER, BEING THERE, STAR WARS, E.T., GHOSTBUSTERS, FORREST GUMP, A TIME TO KILL, GOOD WILL HUNTING, AMERICAN PIE, and many others. Thanks to you all. I have no thanks what so ever for the marriage of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. I wish them both well, together or apart, but their contributions to the tabloid pages I am not grateful for. The tabloid magazines themselves I have no qualms with. They're just doing their job. Ben Affleck seems to have two jobs: acting in motion pictures and not coming across as a snob for thinking he's entitled to at least some level of privacy. As for Jennifer Garner, her acting talents are minimal and she's managed to find a comfy job as spokesperson for some credit card company. Ben Affleck is no Tom Hanks. Gwyneth Paltrow is no Meryl Streep. But when's the last time Tom Hanks did a movie that couldn't have been delivered just as well with some other actor? Or better yet, could have just not been made in the first place? Would anybody care of the books of Dan Brown were never adapted to celluloid? CAPTAIN PHILLIPS had a 98% rating the first month or so it was out on Rotten Tomatoes. I doubt it's because it's THAT GOOD of a movie. There's just some movies that nobody has anything bad to say about and if you ever find yourself feeling like you have nothing to do or say or think about, then by all means, watch CAPTAIN PHILLIPS. I'm busy typing this at the moment....but back to my most prior train of thought ---- My point was/is, if you didn't catch on, that most movies don't require great acting. I don't disrespect Ben Affleck. He seems like a serious actor. If it weren't for his co-penning of GOOD WILL HUNTING, I probably would have less respect for him. He's not quite as serious as Brad Pitt, which has served as an advantage to Ben Affleck in recent years where seriously * good movies that Brad Pitt is a good fit for are few and far between. Any of Dennis Vellenuve's movies *could* have had Brad Pitt in them, but the actors they chose over him were better fits, IMO. I can imagine Brad Pitt taking over for James Brolin in SICARIO. It doesn't seem right. I can imagine him playing Jake Gyllenthal's role in PRISONERS. Didn't Brad Pitt already do a slam dunk job playing a homerun detective in an equally gritty and disturbing movie with religious overtones? Uh, yeah...right. ARRIVAL? That movie was already borderline sappy. Having Fabbio alongside Amy Adams is just what Late Night TV needs. Seriously, whoever the new Jay Leno is -- you need to get on that! I don't have any video editing know how, so....
BTW, It does seem as if Brad Pitt has finally found a project that seems to suit him, both as an actor and as a die hard liberal, some military satire or something, right up his ally it sounds like, a Netflix exclusive.
Anyway.....yeah. Hollywood, I have no love for. My mom dismisses the idea that different locales have their own personalities. She's always saying "It's just a place." But Hollywood? It really is bland from everything I do know about it. Is it not 90 degrees fareinheit a vast % of the time? I've seen nothing on TV or other method of broadcast to indicate any kind of architectural trends worth noting. When I think of Hollywood, I think of a big group of compound looking buildings where people go to check their mail and have meetings. And then a little further over, maybe some girly gift shops lined up along one another. NYC and San Francisco are cities worth noting for their existence, people or no people. I was born in and reached adolescence in Monterrey Bay Area, so I have an odd attachment to that sort of thing, the smell of fish does not bother me like it supposedly does most people. I like the air that I used to breath in Monterrey Bay Area. Occassionally I'd get a whiff of it in Missouri where I finished off adolescence and trasnitioned into what passes as adulthood for me. And the fact that San Francisco is a CITY means it's loaded with options for buying whatever the heck tickles your fancy. I like living in Metro Atlanta. I always loved the mall. It got kind of sad going there in Cape Girardeau, Missouri b/c there was nothing but clothing stores and I kept becoming more and more unable to conceive spending money at the few places that weren't clothing stores, the more I looked at my budget vs. what the mall has to offer and how much of it I can afford. I was blown away by the mall close to my sister's house. Sugarloaf Mills I think is what it was called. It was a kick ass mall to begin with ****AND* there's an AMC cineplex or "theater" built into it. Freakin' amazing! NOT because that's where Ben Affleck proposed to Jennifer Garner or because there's a famous photo of Ben & Gwen that the paparazzi captured before he proposed to Jen --- but because that's where you can go in and ***watch a movie***! I also love the layout of the exterior of the ehater. I didn't have enough money to go in and try it out and I was low on time as well and haven't had any opportunities to go since. Yes, movies generally aren't my thing nowadays. But when they are, they really are. I'm eagerly awaiting the next thing Dennis Vellenueve does. ARRIVAL was just *wow*. LOVED that movie! I finished that movie about a month ago now and was reeling from it for at least a week afterward. Way more satisfying than chit chatting about Benefer and the end of Benefer and the Ghosts Of Benefers past........
NY is, from what I can tell, laid out like a lot of those old mammoth Catholic churches. Even the Manhattan skyscrapers have an elegance to them, if 1984's GHOSTBUSTERS is any indication, although I realize 42nd St as it was then no longer exists (not sure how much else has changed & how). Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS was supposedly inspired by a view of NYC skyscrapers from underwater. Kind of a scary thought. Any sea life from that timeframe very well may have had a difficult time coping with the installation of those towering buildings, supposing they have the same human tendency to sweat the small stuff (and it's all small stuff!)
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