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Late one night a typical night hanging out with my friends, and as per teenage tradition we pulled out a movie. It was a horror film of some sort, I don’t remember the title I believe it was Stay Alive. It was the classic evil spirit bent on revenge, gets released by an unsuspecting group of people, eventually has to survive a predefined amount of time, and seal and/or destroy the monster/spirit. Me being the cynical, analytical, and sarcastic person that I am got bored at pretty much on the first half of the movie. So in order to entertain myself I decided to “predict” everything that was going to happen in the movie. In an original thought out movie this would have not been possible but unfortunately there seems to be a lack of original movies in any genre. Really any sort form of visual media that has to have an “original” storyline is not creative nor original at all, but built and contrived by the advertisement departments trying to pitch the movie to a specific audience. Everything is being dumb down and generalized for people that don’t have the attentions spans nor the patients for something longer than an hour, and if it is longer than an hour it is filled with mind numbing dribble. Is it really possible that we as a society can’t come up with anything that doesn’t have giant explosions for half of the film or repeated takes on the Cinderella story. I don’t see how it can be so hard to just take the time to just think out an interesting story, if not that then an interesting view on the story. Like Wicked the book and the Broadway play, it is about the wicked which of the west from Oz. That may not be my cup of tea but at least someone is trying. Try, that’s all I ask….because if not I will continue to “predict” the every step of the characters in a movie on a screen near you (which my friends weren’t to happy about by the way.) because somewhere in the back of someone’s mind there is a story waiting to be told that is not like other stories that can be entertaining and mind boggling all at the same time. (well one can only hope….) We just have to think (we can still think can’t we?)