The Vast Vortex of Suckitude

Over at GayPatriot there's a discussion going on about what Hollywood can do to stop its free-fall into irrelevancy.

Here’s my idea: How about Hollywood making movies that aren’t complete crap.

If you look at the movies that have come out this summer, they’re comprised almost solely of remakes, sequels, 2-hour long SNL skits, or bastardizations of television shows of years gone by. To be blunt, this whole summer movie season has been a vast vortex of suckitude of a scale never before imagined.

And that's just this summer.

This downward trend has been in the making for at least the past decade, and shows no sign of letting up in the forseeable future.

This is not to say, of course, that all the movies that have come out have been total write offs. There were two movies I've seen this year that didn't completely suck. Batman Begins was surpisingly well done, despite its plot being being somewhat formulaic. Revenge of the Sith was a nice surprise; I was expecting another letdown along the lines of Attack of the Clones.

A couple of gems, however, do not make up for the cinematic travesties known as Fantastic Four, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Bewitched, and The Dukes of Hazard.