I was persuaded into seeing “Predator vs. Alien” today, or is the other way around? Either way, I laughed, I cried, I left the theatre wanting my eight bucks back. To put into perspective how bad the ‘show-down’ was [I suspected from the get go it was Hollywood horse crap, so… coming from me, the above doesn’t mean much, but…], some of my family members [not immediate family members] have been counting down the days to it’s release, and they hated it as well. So, for people who are generally satisfied with a film if it has at least one slow motion car explosion; walking away from “AVP” feeling gypped; that’s a low blow for Anderson.

The more and more “main-stream” films I see, the less worried I am about my decision to never go too “big-budget-main-stream” in “the industry”, especially after attending the DGA event, and hearing some successful directors voice their increasing frustrations with production companies [in the last ten years]. It sounds to me like perfectly creative and capable directors are strong armed by production houses into “trimming the fat” from their films and therefore [despite serious efforts to avoid it…] creating yet another cookie cutter movie.

I was wondering what the next big “Versus” movie will be, lets see, there’s: Batman vs. Superman [I think it’s still in the works anyways], Alien vs. Predator, Freddy vs. Jason, Ecks vs. Server [but that one barely counts], Godzilla vs. Disco Lando… the list goes on and on. With vintage tv shows / cartoons being a recent target [Scooby-Doo, Starsky and Hutch, The Dukes of Hazzard, Fat Albert], I wonder if Hollywood will ever be so bold as to explore the possibilities of: “Garfield vs. Charlie Brown”, or “The Dukes of Hazzard vs. The Knight Rider”. You laugh now, but Hollywood gets less and less creative with every movie they manufacture. It’s only a question of time and who has the rights.