Oh yes, this is cynical, and even bitter, but it's also an excellent and short expose of the formula so many, many Hollywood films put into the market every year. In Australia, the pressure is on producers, screenwriters and directors to turn out pap exactly like this, in the belief that the only way to make real money in cinema is to apply The Formula.



It nuked every infuriating cliche of Hollywood cinema. It's every Become A Screenwriter Today! book ever written summarised in 3 1/2 minutes.

Fucking brilliant.

Bizarrely, as the United States descends into Third World status, Hollywood will only ramp up the production of Feel Good (Instead Of Feel Fucking Pissed Off) cinema. The movies that punch out The Truth, of course, will find their audiences and do very, very well.