Thoughts on the state of the entertainment industry

Does it matter what I think? No, not really... I'm an artist, yeah, but not that super duper genius of an artist. All I know is that I'm like a jedi and I can sense the current atmosphere in the art world and from what I'm gathering it's pretty dismal at the moment.

Been a fan of great cinema since I found that movie rental store back when I was about 11 or so. Kids today are no doubt downloading all their movies, but I did things the old fashioned way, blockbuster. No such thing as streaming media back in the old days. No dvd either. But whatever. Nothing better to me than browsing the movie aisles. There's a special quality to discovering a movie through its box art and little synopsis on the back, than by googling it and watching it in seconds. Or what we have now with net flix.

Everything's changed so quickly, I'm honestly having trouble keeping up with it all.

I mean I find it hard to watch tv with all the commericals when I can simply youtube the bitch.

It's funny to see the vast contrast between the film and tv world of today vs the one I came from. It's like a kid goes online these days and looks up the intro for Jackie Chan adventures, and comments "wtf is this..." And of course people are telling the kid, you missed out little guy...

Wow, you're telling me all those badass cartoons I took for granted are now anchient relics of the past that are no longer around. How the fuck did that happen?

Something happened. Some corporate decisions were made and the reigns of things were handed over to a new crop of young artists and animators, AND THEY SUCK.

So what we have now is a world that's pining for the days of old when titans in the world of animation and film making were doing their thing and not these newbs.

There's a billion things I'd love to see get done that I don't believe will. first of all, finish Samurai Jack. Bring back Dexter's Lab, or make a live action movie. Definitely make a live action Jonny Quest which is long overdue. Fuck, what else, a billion things... We have TMNT on now which is cool, but there's others that could be done. A new Ghostbusters toon, a more accurate spiderman show with no spider bike, etc, etc...

The reason I say all this is because look at a movie like Rush Hour 3. why the FUCK did they make that movie? I used to watch Rush Hour 2 religiously every fucking day, I just loved the feel of that movie. So I'd throw it on and just relax my brain and watch that shit.

But Rush Hour 3? Ok, it's like a time warp. Really look at the leap in difference between 2 and 3. 2 is obviously a semi-90s early 2000s movie. Life was good back then, michael jackson was still fucking alive, people were hopeful and jackie chan was a fucking HUGE star with his own cartoon. So the movie reflects all of that. It was Chan mania back then. Rush Hour 3? Both Tucker and Chan are too old and are struggling to fit back into their old clothes from rush hour 2 and fail miserably at it. Mind you, I like the movie because it makes me feel like I'm back in the days when Tech TV was still in its prime and we didn't have ass loads of anal porn all over the place like today, but no way is that enough.

It's truly a dreary, soulless attempt at capturing that rush hour magic from 1 and 2, but ultimately just feels like what it is, a "do or die" movie. When actors start to age beyond their roles and they say Fuck It and make the movie no matter how bad it ends up because they don't want to miss the opportunity before they become ollllld as shit.

We gotta stop with that nostalgic movie shit and bring in totally new fresh ideas again... thats all I got to say...