2.) Troubled kid with divorced parents. Or just fine kid with divorced parents. Divorced parents DOMINATE the cinema. Geesh, is it, like not cool to be married and have kids anymore, Hollywood? And how did you end up establishing what was “cool” for America in the first place???

3.) (More of an 80′s thing). Nerdy, reclusive teenage kid/son, etc., who has loving but quite aloof parents (dad is watching tv or reading the paper, mom is silently nervous and anxious about bringing up uncomfortable subjects at the table (including bullying), like most anything a teenage boy would REALLY like to talk about with his folks, but only when his parents aren’t so “on edge” about what he is saying, because he is “on edge” enough as it is), who ask him how his day at school was, you know the USUAL (but they don’t REALLY listen to what he is saying), meanwhile, little do they know, he’s being bullied at school, the girl he loves ignores him, he’s constantly doodling in class when he should be paying attention (because junior high and high school completely suck), and he feels like a complete loser. How many times have we seen a movie like this? But boy, do we love it so!

4.) Psycho girl meets nice guy. Nice guy tries to pursue psycho girl. Psycho girl completely messes with the guy’s head and heart. Psycho guy meets nice girl. Same situation. Do fictional movie romances have to be THIS PAINFUL TO WATCH??? Because, god forbid, this happens in real life. Then of course, nice guy meets nice girl. To have that last part, or not to have that last part. Either way, its all been done thousands of times before. Wish I could say there were less psychos in movies, but film directors seem to have a thing for psychos. And we keep forking over the bucks to see people be inhuman to each other… Now THAT is entertainment. Yeah… Ugh.

5.) Kid keeps calling his/her parents by their first names. Why???

6.) Troubled teenage girl has a NICE, very tasty dinner in front of her. After the slightest hint of a sensitive subject being brought up at the table, she excuses herself, saying she is “Not Hungry”. Do teenage girls onscreen EVEN EAT??? WHEN??? Do they have a mini fridge full of Haagen Daas and lasagna with a microwave nearby or something??? Oh, and you can’t forget bottled water. At school. Every friggin’ day.

7.) Cheerleaders are mean. Who says they have to be mean? Well, a lot of us hated High School, right? We hated how the cheerleaders were beautiful but not our type, or they were whorish, etc., right? Yes, Hollywood, FEED the geeks of the world with anger toward cheerleaders, jocks, and rich, muscular preppies alike. Make the cheerleaders onscreen so much MEANER than they were in real life, because that is just the thing to soothe our youthful emotional aches and wounds of years past, regarding the opposite sex. Maybe then, some forgotten, mistreated soul at a high school reunion just might go overboard and do what he never thought he’d ever, ever do. And I don’t mean sex. Or rape…

8.) It’s all about the Benjamins, right? Money money money moooooooney!!! Mooo-ney!! From designer clothes to Armani suits and silk ties, from ferraris to ferocious muscle cars, from tropical mansions to private clubs and estates, Hollywood LOOOVES to make movies in style. And then middle class America (and much of us poorer folk) are left with a glitzy movie, and the desire to covet everything we see in these movies. I’m sure credit card companies LOOOVE these kinds of movies… Hey, its not like they have anything to lose… :D

9.) Lust. Can I please have my own life, with my own, private thoughts about women, instead of movies injecting sex into everything these days? Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if some people lived life like they WERE a puppet of Hollywood, Hollywood ethnics, morals, and lifestyle, esp. the wild sex parties and orgies, etc. Its a load of filth and vomit, thess Hollywood sleezy, smutty movies that come out like one out of three or four times for every movie made. Well, at least it makes it easier to decide what movie to see on a weekend…

10.) Last but not least, a movie that lacks PATHOS. Pathos, or genuine, heartfelt feeling, is why we see a movie in the FIRST PLACE. Most of us don’t want to see a movie about liars, thieves, adulterers, murderers, etc. We want to see a movie about honest, hard working, faithful people, who have a genuine love for others, and make the movie much more of a special, sacred experience than it otherwise would be. We want to see good people in tough circumstances. We want to see how far they can be pushed, and if they will ever sacrifice their morals. We want to see if we can be better people ourselves, because we are asking ourselves if we really CAN be better in our own lives, after the movie is over and done with. The best movies HAVE GOOD PEOPLE IN THEM. If everyone was a complete scoundrel in a movie, I can guarantee you, you’d end up feeling kind of hollow afterward.

Boy meets girl. Boy does something behind girl’s back. Girl also does something behind boy’s back. Girl finds out about what boy did, and gets pissed off and breaks up with him. The thing the girl did behind the boy’s back? It ends up backfiring and she gets hurt somehow. Girl realizes/decides the thing the boy did behind her back wasn’t so bad after all. Girl gets back together with boy. They live happily ever after.