I guess I should have entitled it "Holiday Movie Season" as I will be addressing movies, not Christmas movies, specifically, though most of those are not worth even searching to digital cable for. To what I refer is the latest state of movies coming out of Hollywood lately. There is nothing new to write about, right? The U.S. is not in a recession and run by a dictatorial Czar-loving narcissistic megalomaniac with no clue as to how to run a bake sale let alone the most powerful nation in the world, right? The federal government is not running automobile companies and financial institutions with no intention of realizing a profit and all the complications this creates, right? Housing foreclosures aren't at an all-time high and unemployment isn't at near 10%, right?
My point, Hollywood is so myopic about "their" president and his floundering administration that they have resorted to comic books, children's' fairy tales and remakes of excellent movies that don't need remaking. Cases in point, Ironman, Gulliver's Travels and True Grit, respectively. I haven't seen Ironman, Jack Black is "Gulliver", 'nough said, and True Grit will only be "quirky" and far more violent with Rooster, played by Jeff Bridges, will undoubtedly be darker and more "troubled". I will not be watching the remake of the greatest Duke movie.
