9) Hollywood Jumped The Shark When It Decided To Create An Awards Show For Trailers.
After years and years of referring to “jumping the shark” as the point at which something in a television series turns ridiculous and marks the precipitous decline of the show, Hollywood decided jumping the shark may not be a bad idea after all. With more and more movies which are merely copies of stories already produced or Comic Book Hero movies that some critics label with the marker “too big to fail,” Hollywood has grown desperate to draw attention to itself for some other reason than those films or the #MeToo movement.
How have they decided to do this, you ask? By creating an award show for . . . wait for it . . . trailers! That’s right! Hollywood has decided to create its own award show for trailers. They “supposedly” pick out the best trailers which moved audiences. This year’s nominations include Infinity War, The Black Panther, The Shape of Water, and A Quiet Place. As much as I love three of those movies, how can one say those trailers are better than other ones. Often, the best trailers are those which make me think a movie is going to be amazing, only to let me down when I actually show up to watch it. You know! The “great” comedies where the only funny moments are those which showed up in the trailers.
Whatever their reasons, Hollywood has definitely jumped the shark. What will they think of next? Giant Dwarfs making Super Axes of Doom which help gods but can be stopped by a giant glove with jewels in them?!?! Wait . . . oh yeah!
10) Nathan Fillion’s New Book: From Ship’s Captain To Rookie In Five Easy Lessons (With A Role As A Disembodied Head In Between)
Ok, maybe it’s not quite a book yet, but it should be. Don’t you think? Nathan Fillion, who shot to fame in the role of Malcolm Reynolds on the quickly defunct hit show Firefly (try imagining how that was possible), has just signed up to star in the new TV show rookie for ABC. In it, he plays John Nolan, the oldest rookie in the LAPD. Based on a true story, it is a series about a man who faces a midlife crisis and decides to change his life around and start all over again as a police officer.
Given the fact that he still plays a disembodied head in the hit Netflix series The Santa Clarita Diet, the Guide figured it was nice he could still play a relatively decent looking rookie cop . . . of 40. And for those women out there, in the Rookie you might actually get to see more of his body . . . if you are into that sort of thing. As for the Guide, unless you are posting pictures of Monica Bellucci, we could really care less.
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David Elliott, Single Dad’s Guide to Life