You spin me right round.

Tonight i was in the car with meg and sara and we got onto the topic of movies, and she said that she had seen A Sharks Tale, but she wondered why they really needed another fish movie. The fact is: they didn't, but that's how the movie industry goes. Especially the cartoons. Look to the past. Antz and a bugs life; shrek and monsters inc.; and now finding nemo and a sharks tale. Pixar and Dreamworks are caught in a perpetual cycle of these themes, and sometimes one is better, and sometimes they're both enjoyable. This pattern, however, is not just in animated pictures. Look back a few years. Saving Private Ryan came out and within months, other such movies like a thin red line were out and trying to not only capitalize off of the success of the former movie, but off of the emotion and excitment in it. Then more recently there's two, the comic book movies and the historical epic movies. The epic movie phase probably started with Gladiator, and is now coming out with Troy, and later this year: Alexander. The problem with these is that they aren't always as caught up in historical accuracy and story and stuff like that as they are to coreograph crazy fight scenes and show off their high profile stars. Then the comic book movies. Spiderman, Hulk, Hellboy, and there's plenty more. The good part of these movies is that they take something that has traditionally been a guilty pleasure for our youth, and bring them to the mainstream for everyone to enjoy. So far there has been no real point to this story, but i'll try to bring it around. I think that while there are good things in these movies, the formulaic attempts at moviemaking that are made in some of these movies get a bit tiresome, and even though these movies are still entertaining, i'd rather have something more original to keep me entertained. That's why i believe indy movies are doing so well right now. In fact, some of the biggest money makers and most oscar nominated movies of the past years have been the ones made by the independent companies rather than the big ones like universal or something like that. Overall, i think that this is a good thing, as many of these movies and indy themes have given a definition to this generation, one which is often a jumble of almost all the other generations from the past couple decades. Sorry about not putting in paragraph breaks. They didn't seem to fit in anywhere.