What is happening to Hollywood?

Rating: 2/10 (4 January 2014)

Seriously, what is going on with the film industry, human intelligence in general? The movie Idiocracy is turning out to be quite a prophecy. The only good thing about Oblivion are the visual, special effects. The story is for the brain dead. For starters the timeline. If it were the years 2117/2177, OK, although all movies are more or less fiction, it could be logically legit that we have an alien invasion, world disaster, extraterrestrial high tech etc. But the years 2017/2077, come on... And why on earth can't Hollywood make a movie without an irritating cheesy cliché love story, in this movie a love triangle even. Cruise is of course a macho hero, "the chosen one" (lol, a slight Matrix rip off), a clone that "awakens" his memories of his human life. The actresses have, as usual for American production, plastic perfect bodies and they, of course, pointlessly take their clothes off at some point. Oh, and a pool in the sky (in which of course one of the female characters dives in naked, lol), as an addition to a super high tech house waaay up in the sky, cool idea, but come on... And even though there are just the two of them in the house, practically on the planet, all the time Riseborough is wearing divine business dresses, high heels, jewelry and has perfect make-up and hair. Talk about stereotypes and sexism... Even Doctor Who makes more sense. The rough idea for the movie is good, although everything was predictable in the movie, within the first twenty minutes I knew the bad guys were the good ones and were human, not alien and that the area struck by radiation wasn't struck by it at all... And why can't they make 1:30h movies like the used to? This was a pointless stretch, as if the movie wasn't boring enough... Oh, well, that's 2h of my life I'll never get back, thank heavens I didn't have to pay to watch it, I would've demanded my money back.