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Hollywood’s out of ideas. They keep making the same junk season after season at cost of millions and millions of dollars. There’s a reason I haven’t seen a movie at the cinema since last Christmas. I found an article in my RSS feed today that was so funny because it’s so true.

From Drivl.com:

5. The adorable/precocious/solemn/creepy little kid with a retarded haircut
This character either provides “adorable” comic relief or creepy ambiance (or both, depending on the movie). And he/she always has a stupid haircut.
As seen in: Jerry Maguire, The Sixth Sense, The Ring, Superman Returns
Why it’s lame: Kids in movies are so unrealistic that it makes me want to throw my ovaries at the writer. They’re not adorably wise, hilariously precocious, or creepily contacting the evil spirit world. They’re booger eaters, Gogurt slurpers, and pants wetters. And why the hell can’t any kid in any movie have a remotely decent haircut? Shaggy near-mullets should be grounds for child abuse.

I wish I had written this! I think I’ve said this to my sister more than once. Why do the kids in movies always have to have these stupid, stupid haircuts??? Society in general doesn’t understand children or respect them and Hollywood even less, whose celebrities use their own offspring (conceived or bought) as a form of award rather than the separate form of life they really are. It’s one thing that makes me crazy and that’s why I quoted that cliche here though the article lists 19 others and all of them are right on.

Update: This is probably one of the funniest things I’ve heard in a while.

November 22nd, 2006 | Category: Rant |  Print |  Send it | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL