Insert cliched steroptypical charcaters: Lonely Big City Female Executive + Lonely Small Town Blue Collar Worker

Insert cliched situation: Gung Ho + Baby Boom + Men In Trees

Click "Process"

Within 10 minutes you MacBook will spit out "New In Town."

Take directly to any Hollywood produce and immediately collect $1 million dollars.

Not bad! Now if only those hackers could distribute copies of that Automatic Script Composer that pumps out this hackneyed bullshit we could all be million dollar script writers.

99 percent of all movies are composed of nothing but stock 2 dimensional characters.

The cheating bar owner!

The harried housewife!

The Slut!

Aren't we just rehashing the exact same 2 dimensional characters from Sex & the City? (The bubbly blond, the sex-crazed friend, the innocent one, the "smart" one with short hair so that we know she's "smart", etc, etc)

(eye roll) Or, perhaps (yawn)

Just as the press needs to work hard to keep politicans honest...so to do movie reviewers need to work very hard to keep extremely lazy (and more often then not: hack) script writers on their toes.

For years they've been pumping out the same tired crap over and over and over again...and for years many reviewers would hail that recycled hack crap as "brilliant!" thus perpetuating the cycle.

Seems that in 2009 the movie reviewers are calling "Bullshit" on a more regular basis. Finally!

Anyone watch My Own Worst Enemy?

No?

Well, didn't we all enjoy Alias? I'm sure we did...right up until it got bogged down in that ridiculous soap opera/love triangle/hidden sister/Rumbaldi bullshit.

So, I man, c'mon. Does it really take a genius to fuse Alias (sex/skimpy outfits/adventure) with the bullshit premise of My Own Worst Enemy? Sounds great on paper....but do you really think this guy has sketched out a 24 episode narrative of spellbinding television? Sounds like he wrote out a paragraph premise (Sexy girl in skimpy outfits has no memory of her past and get programmed with a new identity each week!) and that's all he has! This show was financed based entirely on that one sentence pitch.

There just isn't any meat there.

It would make a great TV movie....but stretching that bullshit out over 24 episodes? Impossible. There simply isn't any STORY there to make it worth watching for that 10 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours.

Sorry Joss. You picked the wrong premise.

It sounds like the officers themselves have PTSD.

Basically you have people with serious and untreated PTSD advising, approving and instructing other soldiers with untreated PTSD.

This is serious.

Basically you've got mentally wounded senior staff with serious anger management problems (and often suicidal themseleves) taking their hate and rage out on their fellow officers.

THAT IS WHAT'S HAPPENING

We've got to see that this isn't typical military indifference or a culture of "toughness" -- the officers themselves ar deeply, deeply damaged from the war and are basically taking it out on their fellow soldiers.

Does any actually work for a living in these movies?

EVERYONE is a writer....or a lawyer, or a doctor or some kind of unspecified ultra-high level executive.

No one actually sits at a desk all day doing data entry.

No one is actually (gasp!) fat or unattractive.

That is why this movie fails. It's the same crap over and over and over again.

I mean, what was Carrie's job in Sex & The City? Ah yes, she was a writer.

And what did her friends do again? Work 3rd shift in a factory? Nope. I believe Miranda was some kind of unspecified lawyer and the blonde one did PR (I think?) and the other one didn't actually seem to have a job now that I think about it.

Huh. Being a "writer" must not be that hard. All you have to do to succeed is just write a script wherein everyone else....are writers too!

Bleh.

Same old crap. Same old stories. Same old characters.

It is soooooo depressing that the person who wrote this script (which probably took all of 20mins to crank out) is at this very moment cashing a check for $1 million dollars.

I'm sure the writer is hard at work on their next script. This one involves an incredibly attractive lead that works as a writer and....I'm sure you can guess the rest by now.

140 characters?

Seriously?

What's interesting is that soooo many people think that a three to four word sentence is "communicating."

Move over Hemmingway! In 2009 it's all about paring communication down to as few words as possible.

Or a single emoticon.

:-(

Wasn't eliminating language the entire goal of the Party in Orwell's "1984"? This is all doubleplus :-(

An increase in WAGES would do wonders. But all CEO's in America have (apparently) sworn blood oaths on Satanic bibles that they would rather burn American to the ground than increase hourly wages from $7.25 to $8.25.

"Why that would only leave us with $12 billion in profits as opposed to $14 billion! I'd rather kill my entire family than live in a world where my company only earns a extra $12 billion!"

No shit.

That's why we're all broke and can't buy any of their products.

There is no way outta this mess. So long as every CEO in America is refusing to increase wages, then this situation will never get better. And so long as Obama has also refused (inexplicably!) to give workers the cash...there is no way out.

Every one I know is dumbfounded that Obama is cutting checks to Billionaires and thinking that it will somehow change anything.

We're broke and can't buy anything before the stimulus bill.

Obama signs the stimulus bill and...we're all still broke and can't buy anything.

clap...clap....clap....

Thanks, Obama!

If he just would've given US the cash instead of Bill Gates we all would've gone out and bought shit which is exactly what everyone is trying to get us to do. Well, we will! Just give US the damn money istead of Warren Buffet.