Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

Hollywood definitely has some goddamn template for their "scripts" or "writing." I fail to see how this is any different from that other comic book shit called Blade. You could interchange the actors and villains, but it's all the same. None of the material is mentally challenging (except challenging the urge NOT to go postal while working in Hollywood), although the "writers" are most definitely mentally challenged. However, there is one bright side: I no longer absolutely hate Keannu Reeves. I suddenly have realized that he's good at two things: 1) the obvious thing; 2) a loud mouth, smart ass punk. Honestly, I blame his lassitude on the roles he receives: simply big budget, low brain profiled movies. But the guy can and does deliver good one liners. People thought Ahnold was good at that, but he barely could mumble through them. Keannu is genuinely funny because he's so dead pan. I swear they should have made him Cyclops in X-Men, rather than that generic guy. The whole explosion of comic book-to-movie thing has been taken too far. So far only X-Men and Spiderman have come close to producing anything watchable. But again it's in the directors and writers producing these things that make a difference. Hollywood's gravest fault is relying on formulas, which is like using Cliff Notes to write an essay. People have gotten wise to it and there's just no sustainability to these "blockbusters" except in their short, cheap spurts in which people are driven to watch these things as a social medium. But as far as real content goes, Hollywood fuck you!