Posts Tagged ‘transformers’

They do, by the way. Suck. A lot. There are exceptions, and I will mention those as well, but for the most part the cartoons that kids watch today are just plain awful.

Cartoons of the 80s and 90s, when I was growing up, and…okay when I was a teenager who still watched cartoons (I still watch them now) that was the golden age. Maybe I’m biased. I’m sure older generations would say that Looney Toons, Tom & Jerry, etc., was the golden age, but I would come back with the same point I am going to make today and say nay.
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This was a good summer for movies. This was a good year for movies. Was already, and it’s only half over with many more promising films to go. I think it is fair to say that before now we have been having quite a few years of crap movies, where only a passing few slipped by that were actually worth paying $10 to see. But this year has been remarkably different. I was finally excited to go to the movies again, and almost every new preview I come across increases that movie-lover joy just a little bit more.

But I have come to realize something as I have gotten older and been able to look at films with a more critical eye. While there are still original ideas out there, the films that are made most often, that Hollywood knows are going to sell, usually have an already existing basis: books, comics, older movies, real life stories, etc. There haven’t been too many first-edition Star Wars, if you catch my drift. And while the films that are being made can still be very good, there is almost always something, one little thing about an actor, a scene, the ending, that makes me go ‘oh, if only this had been different’.
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