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Nobody in Hollywood would recognize a funny idea if it jumped up and bit them. They're ALL a bunch of pompous, overinflated, humorless windbags who think the sun shines out of their ass but have no idea how to make interesting movies. Their "big ideas" are flatulent, obvious as a fart, while the very concept of small ideas, which make the best movies, is long, long gone.
American movies, American movie stars -- what's the point? We have the best technology, but even that is more and more used as a tool by foreigners to make American-style blockbusters with foreign ideas -- because only foreigners are capable of having ideas. Even visual ones.
All we have left is Samuel L. Jackson in an exploding car. Electric shock treatment for stimulus-craving morons. It's popular to say that the video game generation is responsible for the corruption of the movies; but the fact is, all of the creativity of the American movie system has drained away, and a lot of it went to video games, which are far, far more interesting and developed than any Hollywood movies today.
