I watched the DVD's Soylent Green, the original Rollerball and Logan's Run recently and I was struck by the running theme in all of them. Not only that the future is going to be bleak. But they were all trying to be futuristic. They were all trying to push the boundries of what the future is going to look like. That's not done these days. Everything is Retro. Classic movies are being remade at a nauseating pace and the fashions of the 70's, with not a clue of how the times felt, are being copied by the "hipsters" in both everyday dress and in the movies (think 40 Year Old Virgin). I have read that the 70's are like catnip to Hollywood. But they overdosed on it years ago. Enough already. Why are producers so afraid to look at the future? Because of 9/11? Only the Space Channel seems to make an industry out of being futuristic. Everybody else seems to have their head stuck way up their ass. Why such mining of the past? I also read this year that movie attendance is way down and the number one complaint is lack of good content. No shit. King Kong notwithstanding.

The big sour note in The 40 Year Old Virgin: if someone told me to sell all my collectibles because they were "helping me to grow up" would get a broken nose from me slamming the door in their face. And what the fuck was the ending all about? How to make the worst, pissweakest ending in the history of movie making? Ed Wood would never have been so stupid.