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Introducing Geekshow Entertainment’s newest entertainment op-ed writer, Colin Antes.

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Ravings of a Big Bad Geek!!!

Friends, Geeks, Trekkies, lend me your ears, for I come to bury Hollywood, not to praise it. Yes, after being still and silent for so long in the geek entertainment world, I have decided to throw my hat into the ring and bring to you all, out of my very own mind, my rants and ravings about hollywood and the geek world. I feel that after seeing what has become of my beloved Hollywood in the past decade, that this is my sworth duty and sacred oath.

You may not believe this, but I was once a child myself. After bursting out of the chest of my mother, my little alien self quickly consumed all the wonderful geektainment that was providing me during my childhood in the 90’s. We’re talking Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, Beast Wars, the DCAU, Goosebumps, and even Hercules and Xena with Buffy taking me over as I hit puberty and started having growth on my body. But that was just what was on the boobtube. The big screen had some of the best times of it’s life creatively with the Disney renaissance of animated musicals and the rise of Pixar, and Spielberg was just starting to hit his stride.

But my, oh my, how the times have changed with the turn of the Millennium. A monkey took the oath of office, Saturday morning and after school programming went the way of the dodo, Spielberg has hit a cinematic slumped filled with big screen mediocrity, 2D animation has become all but extinct, and Hollywood has since become plagued with remake after remake. And during all of this, Tom Cruise also seems to have become batshit crazy! Well let me to you all something…I’M MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!

Aside from the rise of the comic book movie, and the Lord of The Rings, Hollywood has been dead to me for most of the decade. It has become a vast wasteland of japanese horror, remakes, and Paris Hilton!!! The only thing keeping me going is the hope of tomorrow and those little lights I’m starting to see at the end of the tunnel with Disney returning next year with a 2D musical(and I don’t give a frak how racist it may look!), and with the movie musical in general starting to see a return recently. And when Warner Bros. finally get’s it’s head out of it ass and start developing the rest of it’s DC comic book properties, then that’ll really be something to look forward to.

While the future of Hollywood may be uncertain, what is certain is that I will be here to guide the rest of you on the way there with my sagely advice, and often blistering critique of the industry itself. So listen closely my loyal minions to what I will be having to say about the geek news that comes out of the swinging pendulum of doom that is known as Hollywood. It may just end up saving you from wasting 10 bucks and two hours of your life somewhere down the line.

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