So the MPAA has created a website RespectCopyrights.org asking people to stop pirating movies. I understand we shouldn't pirate movies and music, and I'm understand how all of the people involved in making movies are worried, but I have a thought, and I'm not sure how I can say this delicately...
How about you stop dumping SHIT all over the consumer? Why does every dickhead with a Brother Word Processor and half a movie idea seem to get a feature film made? I mean, what, we have "The Princess Diaries 8" coming out? And fucking Baby Geniuses 2 or whatever? People really got paid to make this tripe? Maybe if you concentrated on making more "Godfathers" and "Lord of the Rings" and movies like that, the really good epic films, we'd want to go to the movie theatre.
No, we get the "White Chicks" and "Legally Blonde 2" and heaping after heaping after heaping of pure garbage.
I'm not so naive to think that if we had good movies all the time there'd be less pirating, but I do think that if we the public were more respected by the movie studios, and the public had more respect for the craft of movie making, maybe things wouldn't be so ugly.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got an idea for "Cody Banks 11" where Frankie Muniz discovers he has chest hair. It's not a good premise, or hell, even a whole premise, but in Hollywood these days, it's apparently all I'll need.
For further rants on RespectCopyrights.org, go here.
The biggest travesty about the RespectCopyrights.org web site isn't its whiney premise:
"Please don't steal our stuff, because it's the little people in the industry that suffer"
Please! If you didn'y pay Harrison Ford 20 million to make crap like Hollywood Homicide, you would have a little bit extra to spread around, trust me.
No, the real crime is their web site. It's a really bad sign when I look at a Flash site and say, "Hey, I could have done that." Honestly, there are loads of talented graphic designers out there and they must have hired some low-baller hack.
They really can't be THAT concerned about piracy if they can't do a better job with their web site than that.