I just got back from 1408. It’s a psychological horror movie that does what’s advertised. It had my adrenaline pumping throughout most of the movie, unlike many other films in the genre. I would like to see it again - I’m pretty sure there are subtle bits of foreshadowing and symbolism that I didn’t pick up the first time <insert other hippie concepts from film class here>. But 1408 is not what this post is about.

This post is about copycat movies, and I’ll be damned if I didn’t have a thousand things to get off my chest about them. The longer I type rants like this, the less ranty I become. I don’t know why, but it’s happened to the last 3 postings. I write a little bit, then I just delete them cause usually I decide the argument is petty as all hell. I guess I’m not so much of a written ranter.

Anyway the gist of the post was copycat movies like Deep Impact & Armageddon and Madagascar & The Wild need to stop. We see what you’re doing, movie makers, and we don’t like it. Or something. Take some creativity pills. Or as I like to call it, acid. There were very few copycat movies in the 70s. Think about that for a minute before you steal someone else’s movie.

I rant much better in person, I swear.