I've watched dozens maybe hundreds movies in recent years. I'm a fan. On the other hand, I'm not really into TV series. Of the TV productions, I've enjoyed very much the "Man vs Wild" Discovery series. The films that I get to watch on TV can be unexpectedly great at times, but some of them are oldies.

Hollywood just isn't the monopoly of good movies it once was. More and more films are being created in other countries, and some of them can be great in unique ways, like photography, or history telling of some other part of the world, or by focusing more on the story than on the guns and explosions that Hollywood seems to be so fond of. When some of these foreign films make use of guns, they often don't go all the way to large shootings. And the using of gun can even be used as a joke, such as for attracting the cops' attention to some other way than to where the runaway went. And when the character kills someone, they may freak out.

Foreign films may also make use of not so pretty actors and actresses, even for the leading roles. Gerard Depardieu for instance. It's true that Hollywood also makes use of funny-looking actors/actresses, but we are so used to them all...

Hollywood as of late may have restricted the movies too much to just a setting. I don't know about you, but I like seeing the story unfold in different landscapes and places. Longer films allow for a longer story to be told and more places to be shown, which is one of the good things to longer films. When a movie gets stuck for half an hour on just one setting, it's such a great waste.

I often watch a film and come to the IMDB site to see how others have favored it. Many end up disappointed. Some even seem proud to say that they have left mid-film. I've had my own share of "couldn't watch it" films, but it's not really something I'm proud of. Maybe people don't re-watch as much because the web both kills their enthusiasm and keeps them too busy to "waste time" watching again. Also because we could save the time to watch another one.

One of these days I was watching a film and I saw the character carrying a paper box with a flailing lid. Sure enough, the cut to the next scene revealed that the flailing lid was the other way around. It was almost too obvious as if they had made it on purpose, just so those folks who like spotting such errors could have a go at this one.

And maybe that's the problem with Hollywood. Sometimes its obviousness is just too boring, with nothing else to make us interested in the story. Telling the story in reverse or in flashbacks only does so much to make it interesting. Animations. Spoofs. Forcefully unrealistic. Runaway for celebrities. Limited to a world region. Reliance on a few settings. Guns leading the way. "Noisy" sex scenes. Lacking good-hearted jokes. Bad suspense and terror. (I'm not really a fan of those genres though.)

Ultimately we all have our unique tastes and there's nothing Hollywood can do about it that will please us all.

Maybe it's just harder to spot those memorable films amongst so many forgettable ones.

Hosni Mubarak meeting Ronald Reagan:
http://totallycoolpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2011...

Hosni Mubarak meeting more America folks:
http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/02/hosni-mubarak-a...

On a class warfare I'd rather join the strong party. May I Wall Street? Any billionaire wanting a serf?

Billionaires seem so lonely. Where are their harems? Oh I see! They've outsourced them.

Now that's a bon vivant: "Silvio Berlusconi, who is under investigation for alleged sexual encounters with a teenager from Morocco, maintained at least 14 glamorous young women in apartments in a gated complex outside Milan, it has emerged. "
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/be...

Corporations unite under the Wall Street flag to fight off the union fools!

What's the corporations' union? Wall Street?

So, the Military of Egypt is not made up of Muslims?

Phew! I was sweating there for a moment.

Muslims may be Americanphobic too. There's a joke that America has bombed half of the world. I don't believe it. Not yet. :-)