The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

Oh How The Mighty Have Fallen …

Look at this summation for a movie called ‘Pursued’ …

I’m almost disappointed the last thing a headhunter did for me was send an old copy of the book ‘e’!

I have to be honest, the summation of this movie is one of the most ‘macho’ pieces of drivel I have ever read …

HIGH TECH INDUSTRIES GO-TO GUY? 

DO A LITTLE HEADHUNTING HIMSELF

… it’s enough to make Jean Claude Van Damme wet his pants in excitement.

Of course I had to buy the DVD – I mean, it would be rude not to – and as much as it was one of the most horrendous pieces of shit I’ve ever subjected myself to [and this is a man who takes pride in loving absolute crap] it still wasn’t as bad as Jodie Fosters latest decent into the ‘Where Are They Now’ bin.

The thing that always amazes me is how many crap movies actually get funded.

Sure there’s always going to be some film-freak like me who’ll buy a copy of whatever crap they churn out – but most people aren’t as stupid as me, so I can’t imagine the investors would ever get their money back.

Hell, isn’t it something like only 1% of movies get a return on their cash? 

It has to be down to ego – infact I know it is – because as much as we convinced our accountant there was a valid business reason for cynic to launch potent_F L I X, the reality was we just liked the idea of creating some films.

Maybe it would of all worked out if Jade Goody hadn’t changed her mind about her interview in our doco ‘Focused On Fame’ [which looked into why people appeared on the TV show ‘Big Brother’] but the fact is she did so we basically threw an enormous amount of cash down the drain over a period of 2 years.

Do we regret it?

Sort of – but we regret the fact the film can never be released even more.

Is that because it’s was good?

Again, sort of – but it’s more to do with the fact our egos will never get the chance to be truly puffed up.

The movie industry has to be one of the ultimate examples of ’emotion overwhelming reason’ [so stick that in your pipe all you ‘people only react to rational argument’ planners] and I can’t help but think that if R&D departments had as many ‘experiments’ underwritten as the movie industry, then we’d live in a World free of illness, hunger and poverty whereas what we actually get is Christian Slater being able to eek out a living making z-grade schlock.

It’s a fucked up World and it’s all my fault, Ha!

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