Enter the Bloggin'

I know what you are thinking. Not another freaking movie blog. I’m not a psychic (If that’s what you want, visit http://www.psychicblog.net/), I just know because I struggled with that same sentiment when I decided to write out my thoughts. How can something stand out when it’s based on an idea so unoriginal?

This struggle is not something unique to the world of weblogs. Hollywood struggles with this issue all the time, and recycling seems to have won out momentarily. In terms of box-office, originality has taken a back seat to profitability. Just this past weekend the new spoof movie “Meet the Spartans” (which should be renamed to “Meet the Pop-Junk Reference Shitfest”) collected over $18 million, beating out yet another Rambo sequel. To hammer in the point even further, this upcoming weekend “Meet the Spartans” will most likely lose the top spot to the horror remake “The Eye.” And its not just movies, either. Every form of entertainment media is littered with covers and rip-off artists, from music to tv to newspapers. You could spend years compiling a complete list. But I digress.

The point of the matter is that there are no new stories, and no new things to talk about. The last bastion of originality lies in execution. And just like some of our favorite movies, I may not say anything original but at least I’ll try to say it in the most interesting way possible.