Hey Hollywood...YOU SUCK, well kinda.

Man, I love the movies. There use to be nothing like going to your local theater, grabbing a $1 Icee and some $2 Milkduds and sitting down for a preview or two and watching a great flick. Wow has that changed!

I understand that there is inflation and things are going to cost more as time goes on, but come on! If I want to take my wife out to an evening movie, it costs at least $30. It cost half that in say the early to mid nineties when I was in middle and high school. Well you know then, you really weren't worried about the actual movie or the cost of it. You were just worried about getting your hands down you girlfriends pants, and she was worried if Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan were going to hook up in Sleepless in Seattle.

I know the same argument can be made from generation to generation, but here is why it is different now:

1. Hollywood's quality and originality is on a steep decline

That is the only point I am making because that is the only valid argument.

I think it speaks volumes when the best actor of our time, and possibly ever, Daniel Day-Lewis, has acted his way through nine movies (working on his 10th) since 1989. It speaks to the lack of quality scripts and ideas in Hollywood. Sure Tom Cruise, Will Smith and Brad Pitt get the laddies in the theaters and Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman and Robert DeNiro are masters of their craft, but they have all stood in line and sucked from the sweet teet of Hollywood to take away millions of dollars from moviegoers in such films as, The Ladykillers, Joe Versus the Volcanoe, Danny the Dog, Nurse Betty, Analyze This, and The Fan.

This all hits home to me as I watch the results of the Golden Globes online. It makes me mad that I have not seen any of the movies that have been nominated for best film. The only movie that I can even have a good beat on is Dark Knight and Heath Ledger was great in it, but again, Batman, how many times can that be done??

Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr. nominated for best supporting actor in Tropic Thunder...what??

Anyway, the way that Hollywood operates now turns me off to the theater, and it causes me to miss some good and maybe even great films. You have to go to an independent type film theater to see a film of any substance, at least here in Indianapolis. Or rent it from another Hollywood whore, Blockbuster or Netflix, when it comes out on DVD. Honestly the last great film I saw was No Country for Old Men and that is only because my wife made me go on a man date with one of her girlfriends husbands while they went a watched Juno. I'm glad I did it though, because it gave me hope again that there are folks out there that get it.

If only it didn't cost me $10 to get in the theater and I had to sit through 8 trailers of independent filmmakers that are trying like hell to make it, but can't crack the old frat club that is Hollywood.

"If you've heard a bad review, disregard. If you've heard a great review, disregard. If it has made millions, disregard. If it is last in the box office, disregard.If Eddie Murphy is involved, run like hell!" - E