Cinema Verite

Perennial optimist that I am, there is a bright side to the Writers' Guild strike. It means Hollywood isn't making cheesy movies.

How do all these horrible movies get made; supposed comedies that are not funny, stupid dramas?

And the most important question of all: How do we get Diane Keaton to stop making movies? It's been downhill since Annie Hall, thirty years ago. Why is she still 'acting?'

I don't mean to pick on Ms. Keaton exclusively.

Out of all the movies that Hollywood produces every year, only a handful have any merit. The rest is just celluloid garbage. (Or should that be the rest are celluloid garbage?)

After theatrical release, they're on DVD in a couple of weeks.

In the next few weeks we will be treated to the aforementioned Ms. Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes robbing the Federal Reserve Bank and Eva Longhoria Parker as a ghost come back to haunt her former fiance and his new love. How original.

Hard to believe they actually need writers to churn out this drek.