Shia LaBeouf: Indiana Jones and the Death of Hollywood

Sun, Oct 26, 2008

I finally had the opportunity to watch Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and all I can say is, it looks like Shia LaBeouf has had his future film career handed to him on a platter(including his involvement in the Transformers movies. Yes they are making another one with him in it.); much like Tobey Maguire and the Spider Man Movies. It is obvious his entry as the son of Indiana Jones will lead to more Indiana Jones movies starring himself. How predictable.

As for the movie. It was pretty bad for a few reasons.

1. This whole, letting really old men be in action movies has gotten out of hand. The first shot of Harrison Ford in this movie made me just about fall out of my chair. He looked like an 80 year old man (as joked in the movie). Hell, he looked too old in The Fugitive. We were also assaulted with Al Pacino in a very terrible action movie 88 minutes and Micheal Douglas in more movies than I care to recall. But make no mistake, it’s not about ageism as it is about offering respectable roles to our mature actors/actresses (this doesn’t seem to be as big of an issue with women). For instance, as Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman have aged, their accepted roles reflect their maturity.

2. It would also appear some of the story for this film was ripped from various other movies. There is no honor in that at all.

3. When you have to make Aliens a large part of your action adventure movie set in the past, your movie is officially garbage.

Which leads me to the following statement: Hollywood needs to officially shut down. In a short period of time, it is no longer producing art and entertainment. Make no mistake the psychological cycle we are all in is simple. Entertainment is a large part of our lives so when a new film is made we will still go and see it, hoping we will be entertained like we used to be in the past. However, if you check around for reviews from the general public after these films have made their money opening week, then we can sense that an overwhelming number of movie goers are consistently disappointed with movies they have seen. Sure making films is still lucrative for Hollywood studios on some level because they are counting on the initial release where the masses aren’t aware that their movies are garbage until they’ve already shelled out the money.

It’s time the moving going public comes to terms with the death of Hollywood and filmmaking returns to the grassroots level.

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Tressa Sanders - who has written 107 posts on Three West.

Tressa Sanders, founder of Three West Creative Development, Asabi Publishing, and Ijaba Films, provides active learning, workshops for business Image, publishing, creative writing, graphics design, and filmmaking. In addition, she has authored the curriculum for the Big Bad Business Image, Concise Publishing, and Creative Writing workshops as well as several literary titles. Tressa also holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Psychology and authored the introduction for a book titled “A Peek Inside the Goo: Depression & The Borderline Personality”. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Tressa was a well established Information Technology professional working with the largest IT, communication, utilities and financial companies in the country. Some of the companies Tressa has worked for include, the New York Independent System Operator, GE Capital Business Asset Funding, IBM Global Services, AT & T Wireless, Hewlett Packard, MCI/Worldcom, GTE, and Sprint. Her areas of expertise include: Publishing Startup & Planning, Business Image Planning, Creative Writing Development, Effective Graphics Design, Cost Conservative Filmmaking.

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