Why have guns if you are afraid to shoot them?

Right before this Comet TV had Cowboys vs Vampires, I’m sensing a trend here. I had always thought Ray Milland in the 1972 classic ‘Frogs‘ was the worst movie ever made. I think I was wrong. Sure there are those fancy movies with budgets and name actors, but! There’s one thing they ain’t got! An original story. As an example I’ve long railed about CBS’s lineup, remakes from 35 years ago: Magnum PI, MacGyver, Hawaii 5-0. Now they even have one more remake! Walker Texas Ranger. I am not shitting you. But I’ve noticed on Comet and the Sci-Fi channel they have original scripts. There’s a lot to be said for that.

Plus, even the reruns on that channel were original for their time. Shows like the Twilight Zone and Outer Limits. A few years after those shows was another original, Star Trek. A couple of years after that was Star Wars (the first was original anyway). I was channel flipping last night and it hit me the 70s were the decade of the cop show/detective show. Barney Miller, Kojak, Starsky & Hutch, Baretta, Toma, Canon, Barnaby Jones, Adam-12, Mod Squad, Rookies, Ironside, Rockford Files. Even worse, I just realized they’re still that way! And even going back over the years. And all their spinoffs! I don’t even know how many versions there are of them. The NCIS’s, Law and Orders…

Its similar to what I started to discover going to film festivals the past dozen years. A 16 yr old with a Hand-i-cam generally has more creativity and originality than all the million dollar babies in Hollywood. I don’t know, I can’t nail it down exactly. I’ve just got the sneaking feeling Americans have wasted a lot of money on movies, and a lot of time on TV, for some really substandard crap. And whether its ones like the Shark-nado series or these Cowboy vs ones, the CGI is pathetic. Sophomoric.