I'm done with movies. This year was miserable. I tried watching Guardians of the Galaxy 2 for my year-end list. It was so excruciating, so full of toxic stupidity, so abusive of CGI, cameos and dick/fart jokes. It makes Troma look like Godard. The predictable dialogue, the wooden acting, the lack of any drama or momentum. Colorful panels progressed loudly for 30 minutes without one intelligent thing being said or done by characters or filmmakers. It cost probably 50 million to make and made 100 million. All because of inflated ideas of what value should be. I cut it off.

I have to ask a scary question - Do these people in charge of production of movies know ANYTHING about movies outside of Quentin Tarantino, "Fight Club", 80s Steve Spielberg and Martin Scorsese? Every new film is just a Greatest Hits mixtape of the writer and director's microscopic film library. No one comments on society, politics, the human condition. But everyone poses like this deep dark rebellious artist, while they all live in ritzy L.A. cocoons of studio analytics and deals made by pedophile agents.There is no art in the media anymore. Its all "bread and circuses".

I always wanted to be a moviemaker. Then I learned it was an industry, a very protected and insidious industry, but I kept pursuing some pure avenue of moviemaking. Now the indies are dead, the corporations own every studio and we are stuck in a neverending loop of nostalgia, kiddie humor and 
untalented film students getting labelled as the best generation of geniuses ever. No one cares about history or the future or the potential world-changing power of artistic filmmaking anymore. Lets all just jerk off to who the Oscar-winning D.P. is. Is there anything sadder than this outcome?