6 months ago
You know what Hollywood?
/begin rant
You’re boring and no one likes you. I don’t even know what a Bradley Cooper is and Ryan Gosling looks like Macaulay Culkin so the answer is still no. Yes, so glad white people are still the most sexy people in La La Land. So glad that their teeth are straight and they grow the acceptable amount of facial hair.
Also, your movies are awful. I saw Take Shelter this weekend. It was great and it was actually an original screenplay. How…original. I also like Michael Shannon’s face. It has more personality than any of the people you tout as beautiful. Have other people heard of it? Are people talking about it? Well, not much but at least Jack and Jill is doing well. Everything else you’ve done this year has been overhyped. Here’s an idea: how about not putting out previews to your awful films a year and a half in advance and actually work on making a great movie.
Movies I saw this year in a theater: Super 8 - no. Nice action scenes but I hated all these kids. And I love kid gangs in movies (see Goonies, Stand By Me, Now and Then, Babysitters’ Club).
That Planet of the Apes thing - I’m tired of seeing serious James Franco. Who takes him seriously? Thanks for John Lithgow though!
Contagion and Bridesmaids - finally something right.
Also, surprisingly Source Code was good but I didn’t see it in theaters so you lose again Hollywood. I’m making it seem as though independent films don’t count but Another Earth was gorgeous and I’m glad I spent time seeing it.
You have failed in making me think this year would be good for movies with your snippets, exclusive trailers and alluring posters with that actor or actress wearing their fancy costume. Truth is, I forgot about more than half of those movies when release time came. And I will forget about the ones you are shoving down my throat now.
Robert De Niro, you don’t need the money that bad. Why you’ve chosen to be in New Year’s Eve (and some other questionable films these past few years) is beyond me. Sure Beaches and The Princess Diaries were good but this guy is like the Nicholas Sparks of directing. Just stop acting or just say no. Have some dignity man!
I still have these films I want to see this year (minus Take Shelter) but otherwise I despise you Hollywood. You are a spineless, egotistical, vacuous soul. You’ve always had the egotistical part but at least could make good movies. Go rehab yourself just like the rest of the starlets you use and throw away and come back with actual content worth viewing. I am just so sick of bad movies lately. I can’t be the only one who sees this right? Right?!
p.s. I don’t care about my punctuation right now. I’m planning a theater opening. (As soon as I pay off my student loan and then win a million dollars to do so)
/rant over
2 years ago
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I know this has been talked to death already but seriously, what’s with all the lily white? So the future of Hollywood looks like 1940s Hollywood? Of course, there is nothing wrong with being white. The problem is with the magazine/editor choosing this as the only representation of what talent is out in LA. As someone passionate about photography, I’m also going to blame Annie Leibovitz for this mess. How about doing something different for the cover? And I’m not talking nudity. Go back to having fun with photo shoots and being creative rather than doing this whole pretty-girls-in-pale-dresses-frolicking-in-the-valley type photos. It’s one thing to have your own style in photo-taking, it’s another to do the same thing over and over.
Also, does the future of Hollywood only feature young people? Must it only feature women? And must it only be actresses? We just had the Director’s Guild acknowledge Kathryn Bigelow for best director, the first woman to take it! Let’s feature up and coming directors, producers, screenwriters, film editors and cinematographers. We also have Taraji P. Henson (a fabulous woman of color) who has been a total breakthrough these past few years who is in her late 30s. That doesn’t take away from the fact that she’s a fresh face. And then in the male department we have Joseph Gordon-Levitt who didn’t fall to the curse of being a child actor. It’s amazing how many boring people Vanity Fair decided to choose when there are many amazing and different things happening in Hollywood! *sigh*
And don’t get me started on an actress who had a really amazing year and that is Gabourey Sidibe. She came out of nowhere and is fantastic. One of the best things about her is the curiosity of seeing how she will fit into Hollywood after Precious. Are there films in which she can be in? All these women up here fit the mold of Romantic Comedy leading ladies or being quirky cute with doe eyes. That’s not different. That’s not new in Hollywood. Emma Stone is the only one I actually have hope for.
All in all, you wonder if it’s worth arguing about due to the fact that the magazine industry isn’t what it used to be. It’s easy to go online and look for the girl who’s different in Hollywood whom you can identify with rather than what’s fed you through the media. However, stuff like this isn’t helping. I feel Vanity Fair, along with a host of a bunch of other magazines, are alienating readers like me, like you who are tired of the same thing. It’s just not about fighting to put a Black girl up there. Asian, Latina, men, women, those behind the camera who are making a difference need to be represented. The most color this issue has to offer is on the top of these ladies heads. I guess we should all be thankful they’re not all blond, right?
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