A New Year

Welcome to 2011, my friends. We’re one year closer to the end of the world and the Mayan zombie apocalypse. With that in mind, what are you prepared to do to make this year awesome? Try base jumping for the first time? Make a movie? Start a band? Train for the zombie apocalypse? All good ideas. How about we make this year really awesome? 

You know what would be great? No more bad movies. No more of these CGI-filled crapfests like Prince of Persia, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, or Clash of the Titans. You know why movies like these exist? Because we’re dumb enough to pay to see them. Box office and DVD sales combined make enough money to keep churning out terrible movies. Why do you think that there are seven Saw movies? Or, even worse, over thirty more god-awful horror movie remakes on the way? They’re remaking The Thing, because they know that enough people are either bored enough, dumb enough, or have a crappy enough taste in movies that they’ll make a profit. It’s a shame, really. How many good movies didn’t get made because of these remakes, reboots, prequels, sequels, and “re-imaginings”? 

Here’s an idea. Before you go to see a movie, read up on it. If it’s any of those things, think twice before you go and see it. Try rottentomatoes.com or any of the other thousands of movie review sites. The new american remake of The Host only pulling a 4.5/10 on IMDB? Don’t see it. It’s really that simple. Not all remakes are bad, but 99.9999% of them are. How about we boycott terrible movies for a year? If they stop making money, Hollywood will stop making these kinds of movies. They’ll realize that the only way they’re gonna survive is by making good, original movies. 

Now, this isn’t guaranteed to work. But, it’s a start. I for one am sick of bad movies. Aren’t you? Don’t waste your time on terrible movies this year. And just remember, there are TONS of good movies made before the nineties. Need a recommendation? I’m full of ‘em. Obviously, good movies aren’t the only thing needed for an awesome year. But they sure help. Not everybody is as big of a movie geek as me, but we can all enjoy good entertainment. 

Music is another thing we need to work on. Don’t stick to one genre please. All you listen to is gangsta rap? Try some Elvis on for size. Screamo all that you’ve ever really tried? There’s some pretty intense classical music out there. Justin Bieber more your thing? There are plenty of cliffs in the world, do us a favor. 

Raise a glass to 2011, and prepare for an awesome year. For those about to rock, I salute you.