Bleak Schmleak

I really wish dumb asses who think they're writer's would quit perpetuating the idea that bleakness is "more emotional". If you have a character fight through hell and in the end things come out alright, how is that not emotional? It's like the positive emotions don't count. I say it's lazy bastards who can't otherwise motivate their characters that have to kill people off for "emotional impact". It's easy to make a brooding hero. Creating an upbeat one is much more tricky.

So in Hollywood movies, it ends happily and it's predictable, but in Indie movies it ends on a sour note and it's genius? Bull fucking shit! It's just as cliche.

And that's another thing? Why is it that everyone on the left things Hollywood is a bunch of greedy men in business suits, and everyone on the right thinks they're a bunch of deviant druggies and perverts? No, I'm not making a generalization in criticism of generalizations. I'm speaking about dumb asses who are by definition dumb asses.

A gritty realistic post

(Hmm, for some reason this post got saved as a draft instead of getting posted. Still as relevant as it was whenever I first wrote it.)

Ugh, why is it that all you have to do to make a superhero story "genius" is to approach the genre with the utmost cynicism. How many titles are out there right now with the "ground breaking" idea that people with super powers are super sociopaths? If people are so hung up on the capes & tights genre, WRITE SOMETHING ELSE!!! This isn't the 1950's, there are plenty of other genres to approach.