Dear Hollywood,

I fucking hate you. Seriously. How is it that you manage to consistantly take good idea after good idea, and fuck it all up? If it weren't for our curiosity to see how much a mess you've made of things, or our naivety that thinks maybe you'll finally get your head out of your ass, we wouldn't bother seeing half of your movies.

I remember a time in my life where I genuinely got excited about movies. Unfortunately somewhere between the first Lord of the Rings and the second Spider-Man movie, the whole thing had gone tits up. It was a double-edged sword when the Matrix and LotR trilogies hit, bringing in a new CGI era of anything being visually possible. Gone were the days of selling a story with good writing, directing and acting, all but replaced by the selling of spectacle and the cashing in of nostalgia.

The second of those being the biggest offender on my personal scorecard. I'll be completely honest here: I am utterly sick of remakes and live-action adaptations. It's not that I don't think that Hitchcock's The Birds would be amazing with modern special effects, or that The Transformers could be a mind-blowing experience for my inner 8 year old. No, it's the fact that these sort of movies only get made for the sake of selling tickets, and no respect is ever paid to the original material.

You know, I'm just going to stop right here. It's late, I'm tired, and I could go on and on with a well-written post about everything that's wrong with Hollywood, but I'm just going to cut to the chase: I'm pissed that not only did they make a horrible Transformers movie (and another on the way), they're also just about done with their horrible live-action version of G.I. Joe, and the guaranteed to be disgustingly awful rendition of the A-Team is about to get underway.

Fuck all.