My brief brush with possible Hollywood fame and fortune ran into this. A studio specializing in live action and animated shorts was looking to branch out into features. (Translation: low budget, no big name stars.) They liked my script about a hard-boiled P.I. looking for redemption. Except the characters needed to be younger. Leads in their mid30's to mid 40's? Too old, I was told. Okaaaay. Could they give me a little guidance on how to explain how a cast of 'High School Musical' types managed to gain the experience and knowledge to conceive and launch a plot to get a corrupt D.A. elected a State senator, and frame a disgraced PI for rape and murder? Especially when the chief conflict of the story to be resolved was how a middle-aged PI handles having reached the point in his life where he could decide to just phone it in the rest of his life, or rededicate himself to helping the needy and friendless?

I never heard from them after that.

So they weren't saving us from ourselves. They didn't care if we blew ourselves up or not. They just won't put up with us trashing the neighborhood.

The one place where it definitely fits is military themed movies, when I was in High School and I saw "Hamburger Hill" I just laughed at the one character's description of coming home on leave and asking his mom to "please pass the motherf***ing potatoes." At the time I just thought it was a funny line. Now years later, I've done it without thinking (many) times myself. Not with potatoes as I recall, but once with turkey in front of my whole family, then it took me 10 seconds to wonder why everyone was staring at me catching flies.

Profanity as a crutch or giggle inducer in movies usually just makes me shake my head, but there are some situations where yeah people do talk like that, all the time.

To top it all off, when we got back to my buddy's place, we watched the original TDTESS on Netflix, and it blew the remake completely out of the water!

I just finished watching 'The Invasion'. I nearly gagged. It wasn't a film, it was a leftist sermon that was as subtle as a hammer between my eyeballs. The low point – well, there were so many of them but this was the lowest point – was Kidman sermonizing at a dinner table that the only thing that redeemed mankind was the fact that feminism now existed in the world. I kid you not – play that film (on an empty stomach, of course) and you will hear it with your own ears. Dang! I loved the original 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' – even the remake was cool – but THIS? This just grabbed an awesome premise and clubbed it so mercilessly with the PC bat that there was blood on the walls. Literally, I sat in front of my TV set and watched what could have been an awesome film chainsawed in half and then set on fire by Hollywood's leftist hysteria.

Gag!