Dear Hollywood,
When making an “international” movie with all the appropriate racial, gender, and religious stereotypes included, hoping to achieve the widest possible demographic; limiting your choices from villains to either a) Evil Corporate Executives, or b) Evil Corporate Executives; and abhorring a plot and acting in favor of Computer Generated Imagery, has it EVER crossed your pea-brains that the box office public does not want ANY of that?
On top of which, even in your drug addled minds, has it ever occurred to you that people LIKE their heroes, even if you do not? In fact, people LIKE their heroes so much that they very much like them to REMAIN heroes. They DO NOT like your fascination with dragging their heroes through the mud, “humanizing” them as grubby little mortals, and otherwise despising them.
Now, having had your collective butts kicked by the year 2007’s ignoring of this advice and cranking out an endless stream of expensive box office disasters, it has to be asked: are you completely incapable of pattern recognition, or are you so thoroughly divorced from reality that you no longer care if you make money, as long as you offended your audience?
Sincerely,
The (used to be) Movie Going Public
I look forward to 2008 topping 2007 as the year of the imploding box office. From the ashes will rise fun, patriotic, sappy, pulpy movies like "Red Dawn".
In fact, I smell a sequel:
"Red Dawn: the Enemy Within".