Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner ...

It’s funny to think, I mean really think about some of the things we allow Hollywood to feed us on a big ole celluloid platter and how we devour it; we eat it right up!

I am most certainly including myself in the above statement.

I can sit and watch the Twilight Saga without so much as blinking for a couple of hours. Yeah, I feel bad about myself afterward, much like the person on a diet who sneaks a piece of chocolate cake in the middle of the night. However, that still won’t stop me from looking at an emo teen with necrophiliac tendencies and a werewolf sidekick friend who, let’s face it, is like Duckie from Pretty in Pink.

I said all of that to say I think I am getting to a point where I am starting to hate myself just a little bit for my lack of discernment or suspension of belief in the ability to write a good story but not have to sexify it up (Ummm, “sexify” is a word. Look it up. Well don’t look it up, just trust me on this one).

We fall for the same story written over and over again.

Common Theme: boy from the wrong side of the tracks falls in love with the pretty girl and there may be some dancing (or an iceberg) involved.

Movies: Westside Story, Dirty Dancing, Say Anything, Footloose, Step Up, The Notebook, Titanic

We fall for the same kind of music.

Songs/Soundtracks: Pop music mixed with big vocals

Soundtracks or Songs: Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing (Armageddon), Lady Marmalade (Moulin Rouge), My Heart Will Go On (Titanic), It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp (Hustle and Flow -- Oh wait, wrong list, but that song did win an Oscar)

You see where I’m going with this, don’t you?

I guess what even prompted me to write this was the trailer for an upcoming movie “The Source Code.” In the trailer, Jake Gyllenhaal asks this woman if she had eight minutes to live what would she do and she answers (with a smile on her face mind you) that “I’d make every second count.”
Yeah so let’s back this up for a minute because I will let you know EXACTLY what would happen if I was in the same situation.

I'm going end this hilarity with a promise, maybe not a promise, but a concerted effort to not look at any and everything Hollywood puts in front of me and I shall do so right after I finish looking at the last Twilight movie coming out in November oh and the next year.

After that, I'm all about legitimate storytelling and stuff.