This Is The Best You Can Do?

When was the last time you saw a really good movie?  I mean a really good movie, a movie you would go to the theater again to see (Twilight/Harry Potter/LOTR geeks sit down please, you don't count...go get help).  Studios have lost their mojo and all ability to be creative.  They seem to be more worried about the marketing of the movie than the actual product.  I'm seeing commercials about up coming movies, and they are all garbage. 

Let's see what we got...Dolphin Tail, the uplifting tale of a dolphin with a prosthetic tail.  Come on!  The movie doesn't need to be 90 minutes, 5 minutes at the most.  My synopsis of the remake:  dolphin has tail, dolphin loses tail, dolphin get put into a can, and I make a delicious sandwich (light mayo, maybe some relish and a hard boiled egg)...done, good night.

What else is there?  Contagion, or what I call Outbreak 2011.  This one's different, it has Matt Damon...who cares.  Spoiler alert:  Matt Damon will lose someone he loves to a mysterious disease, search for answers, run from people, and maybe, just maybe find a miracle cure to save the remainder of the human race.

Let's go to Moneyball.  This looks alright, seems like it was written well, but how much did Billy Beane revolutionize baseball scouting if he never won a World Series?  How motivational can this movie be.  Steinbrenner proved a long time ago that the check book is mightier than the computer.  The A's haven't won under this system.  How do they end the movie, showing the Yankees knock them out the playoffs?  Times are rough, I think America needs to see a winner, not an also ran.

I'll end this post with my favorite upcoming piece of rubbish, Real Steel.  the underdog story of a boxing robot.  Did Oscar De La Hoya get high and write a movie.  This is just CGI Rock 'em, Sock 'em Robots.  It would be more intriguing if I found out it was the sequel to the shitty Shaquille O'Neal movie.  I smell a video game in the making.

Ah, I got that off my chest.  I'll quit my bitching for now, but come on, is this really what we want to see?