Top 10 Reasons Why Hollywood Movies Stink

Hollywood loves to pat itself on the back and exclaim how "plugged-in" they are with the movie watching public. They quote huge numbers and talk about how the state of the art of film making is growing by leaps and bounds from its early days of the silver screen, blah, blah, blah. Here, have another award. Aren't we nifty?

But the reality is that the stuff that is generated by the Hollywood machine in modern times is really just boilerplate templates, recycled stories, and schlocky, big budget nonsense that is only popular because it's been carefully marketed to the right demographic. Meanwhile, the fly-over states (or at least the red ones) like to talk about the liberal media and how its trying to infect the American public with its own message. 

To a certain extent, they are right. But the message is that its the almighty dollar that fuels and drives this machine. In looking at films today, you can see the formulas at work, the machinations going on behind the screen as the industry tries desperately to hang on to its finger hold on the movie watching public. But clearly, they have no clue, nor do they really care about what the public wants.

Here are ten of the most egregious reasons why Hollywood movies today are undeserving of the most important thing movie watching audiences can give them: their hard-earned money.


1. Tired, over-used story lines
There are literally hundreds of scenarios that have been done to death. How about the one where the experience-hardened veteran, eager to retire, reluctantly unites with the young, thinks-he-knows-everything rookie to solve one last major crime. How many films can you think of that fall into that category? Answer: too many. Right now, there are thousands of creative, imaginative well-written scripts collecting dust on a shelf in a closet of some executive's office and thousands of talented, insightful writers that are waiting tables or delivering pizzas.